File photo: Buyers from Russia check out balloon products at the Yiwu International Commodities Mall in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo by Lyu Bing/For China Daily]

In the first half of the year, 33.88 billion packages were delivered via express services in China, with total operating income of 382.38 billion yuan ($54.49 billion), according to data released by the State Post Bureau on July 14.

Express services in China saw year-on-year increases in both package amount and revenues, up 22.1 percent and 12.6 percent, respectively. Among them, intra-city deliveries of packages registered at 5.62 billion in the first half, up 10.6 percent from a year earlier, inter-city deliveries recorded 27.5 billion, up 24.7 percent year-on-year, and cross-border deliveries or deliveries from and to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan registered at 760 million, up 20.9 percent year-on-year.

No 10 Chengdu

H1 revenue of express delivery: 5.96 billion yuan ($872.5 million)

No 9 Jieyang

H1 revenue of express delivery: 6.29 billion yuan

No 8 Dongguan

H1 revenue of express delivery: 10.49 billion yuan

No 7 Suzhou

H1 revenue of express delivery: 10.62 billion yuan

No 6 Jinhua (Yiwu)

H1 revenue of express delivery: 12.28 billion yuan

No 5 Hangzhou

H1 revenue of express delivery: 15.34 billion yuan

No 4 Beijing

H1 revenue of express delivery: 16.76 billion yuan

No 3 Guangzhou

H1 revenue of express delivery: 29.12 billion yuan

No 2 Shenzhen

H1 revenue of express delivery: 30.79 billion yuan

No 1 Shanghai

H1 revenue of express delivery: 61.00 billion yuan