Shanghai YTO Express (Logistics) Co Ltd, a major delivery service provider in China, confirmed in January the company had hired Zhong Zhanrong, former
Asia-Pacific trans-shipment director of United Parcel Service of North America
Inc, the international shipping giant, as the company's vice-president.
Zhong is expected to help expand YTO's businesses in Southeast Asia Salomon Shoes Sale Mens , according to the National Business Daily.
This is the second senior executive to have dumped an American express enterprise to embrace a Chinese company amid a reshuffle in China's express
industry. In 2013, Xiang Feng, UPS vice-president, job-hopped to YTO as chief
executive officer.
UPS declined to comment, but a person at Ogilvy Public Relations, which is charge of handling the company's media relation Salomon Shoes Sale Outlet , said it was Zhong's private choice to leave the company.
As for the growing competition with Chinese delivery enterprises, she says, UPS' core clients are big companies while its Chinese rivals mostly serve
individuals or small and medium-sized companies that engage in cross-border
e-commerce.
YTO's intensified efforts to scramble for global management personnel and market shares spotlight the stiff competition among delivery service providers,
as the emerging cross-border e-commerce sector presents both opportunities and
challenges.
"As China's e-commerce market is maturing, an expanding pool of buyers are taking to the Internet to buy products from abroad, which poses challenges to
express enterprises Salomon Shoes Sale ," said Wang Xiaoxing, an e-commerce analyst at Analysys International, a Beijing-based
Internet consultancy.
China's cross-border online transactions hit 216 billion yuan ($34.83 billion) in 2014, involving more than 18 million buyers. The market is forecast
to top 1 trillion yuan in 2018, according to a report by international market
researcher Nielsen March Research Co Ltd.
"They have to grapple with the challenge of ensuring the quick delivery of cross-border goods with a fair price and good after-sales services," Wang
said Salomon S-WIND Sale , noting this will help expedite a new round of reshuffle in the courier industry.
The first reshuffle among Chinese logistics companies occurred from 2006 to 2008 when China's e-commerce business had just taken off. Those who failed to
take chances were squeezed out of the market, Yu Weijiao, president of YTO, said
in an interview with 21st Century Business Herald earlier last month.
China's express industry is currently dominated by seven major players: State-owned China Postal Express& Logistics Co Ltd and six private
competitors, which are mainly engaged in delivering e-commerce parcels.
Almost 80 percent of online-shopping packages are delivered by the six private couriers: YTO, SF Express Salomon XT Hornet Sale , Shanghai STO Express Co Ltd, ZTO Express Co Ltd, Shanghai Yunda Express Co Ltd, and Best Express, according to Xu Yong, chief analyst at
cecss Salomon S-LAB SENSE Sale , one of the largest information websites for China's express industry.
But as the profit margin narrows down to less than 1 yuan per parcel, Chinese delivery enterprises are looking for new growth points. Seeing cross-border
e-commerce as a new opportunity, they have accelerated their steps to lay out
international delivery networks.
Last September, Yunda unveiled an English service website to facilitate delivering products from the United States to China.
STO is set to launch its US-version service this month to meet people's growing appetite for overseas products, and ZTO obtained approval to provide
international delivery services last year
A boy practices performing calculation on an abacus in a preschool class in Yiyang, Henan Province in December Salomon XT Hawk Sale , 2013. Photo: IC
Starting this week, Beijing's education authority will launch an inspection into its kindergarten system looking for schools that place heavy academic
burdens on pupils.
The government will downgrade the rankings of kindergartens that teach children primary school level subjects like English, pinyin and math skills such
as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division involving numbers larger
than 20. The involved kindergarten headmasters will be held accountable,
according to Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
Kindergartens should focus on helping kids form proper behavioral habits Salomon S-Lab Fellcross 2 Sale , learn to perceive rules and understand their surroundings through games and activities, said Fu Zhifeng, deputy director of
the commission. He said that Beijing's preschools are banned from teaching kids
topics that should be taught in primary schools.
Kindergartens that push children too hard by teaching them primary schools curriculums is a problem that has plagued China's education system for many
years. The Beijing government launched programs to try to stamp it out in 2012
and 2013 but it has persisted nevertheless.
Under China's high-pressure exam-oriented education system in primary and high schools, kindergartens have joined hands with parents to stuff preschoolers
with as much education as possible to prepare them in future competition.
Looking for a head start
Chinese parents who want their children to be competitive right from the start of their education are keen on their offspring being pushed to their
limits as soon as possible.
Wei Hongsheng, a father of a 3-year-old boy, sent his son to a private kindergarten in Yizhuang Salomon Kalalau Sale , Beijing last year.
"I am starting to worry that my son may fall behind in his primary school studies, since his kindergarten only teaches him English and basic Chinese," Wei
told the Global Times, adding that the school is the only kindergarten close to
his neighborhood.
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