Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-06-24
Vladimir Putin speaks at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, June, 19. (Photo/China News) |
Russia is
going to launch a China-Russia express rail line for postal services to shorten
the package delivery time between the two countries, reports China's state
newswire Xinhua.
This new
project was announced by the deputy director-general of Russian Post, Aleksey
Skatin, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Skatin said
China and Russia are major partners in e-commerce and that a faster rail link
connecting the two countries would be desirable. Russian Post said Russians
last year made 80 million online purchases, 80% of which were from China.
Dmitry
Strashnov, CEO of Russian Post, suggested the creation of an online mechanism
for people to report the contents of their packages instead of physically
taking them to the post office, which will reduce delivery time to just 14
days. If this can happen, Strashnov said cross-border postal services will
increase tenfold.
Russia has
great potential for e-commerce as 70% of the public use the internet but the
internet only accounts for 2%-3% of retail sales.
Some local
specialists said sales in Russia will grow sharply as Chinese businesses make
everything very cheap, enabling more people in the country, especially those in
rural areas, to buy them.
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