" Twelfth Five" plan to put forward, will support the courier service and electronic commerce development, postal, courier, logistics and distribution enterprises relying on the network development of e-commerce, accelerate the construction of meeting the needs of e-commerce development of the socialization of logistics system, optimizing the logistics distribution center allocation, public transit station, community distribution outlets and other logistics facility layout regional, industry, and actively explore the development mode of logistics information platform. Promote express, LTL, city distribution enterprises relying on information technology to enhance the level of social service, enhance the retail network of support ability.

It is understood, along with the development of e-commerce enterprises, the express delivery industry and business integration has accelerated, part of e-commerce enterprises to invest in a self-built distribution system, especially the B2C enterprise such as Jingdong Mall, Joyo, dangdang.com, VANCL, or self-built logistics or acquisition of express delivery enterprises.

( source: China Economic Herald )