CCTV News: The reporter learned from the State Post Bureau that in April, the delivery volume of my country's postal industry reached 17.75 billion pieces, an increase of 16.7% year-on-year. Among them, the express delivery business volume reached 16.32 billion pieces, an increase of 19.1% year-on-year. The express delivery volume is about 540 million pieces per day, of which more than 100 million pieces flow in rural areas.
Qionglai, Sichuan: UAV delivery business helps express delivery into villages
In Qionglai City, Sichuan, UAV delivery is helping to solve the "last mile" problem of express delivery into villages in some remote mountainous areas. In Taohua Community, Nanbaoshan Town, Qionglai City, Chengdu, Sichuan, a drone flew into the air with express parcels. Follow the set route and fly over 11 kilometers of high mountains. Five minutes later, the drone slowly landed in Zhitai Village on the mountain, and the packages were accurately delivered to the villagers.
After the delivery was completed, the postal staff loaded the express delivery that the villagers wanted to send out into the cargo bag, and the drone returned to the foot of the mountain according to the scheduled route. The reporter learned that in the current verification flight stage of drone delivery services like this, drones must perform at least one delivery trip a week, mainly delivering newspapers and newspapers and urgently needed daily necessities and medicines for villagers.
Nanbaoshan Town, Qionglai City, is distributed with a number of ethnic minority villages, with the highest village at an altitude of nearly 1,500 meters. The relevant person in charge said that compared with traditional land transportation, drone routes overcome difficulties such as complex terrain and inconvenient transportation in mountainous areas. For example, the farthest Jinhua Village used to take 22 kilometers to transport vehicles, and only 10 minutes to transport them by drones.
The drone express delivery into the village not only breaks the spatial and geographical restrictions of mountainous distribution, but also injects new vitality into the development of the rural economy. The rich kiwi fruits, mountain bamboo shoots and other agricultural products on the mountain are sold through e-commerce live broadcasts, and then transported down the mountain with drones, ensuring the freshness and price of agricultural products. "The basic problems of the supply chain are solved with the fastest transportation method, accelerated the application scenarios of drone flight distribution, and promoted remote mountainous areas, villages and communities far away from towns and inconvenient transportation." said the relevant government staff.
