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National Post Office Jin Jinghua: the new national standard for express package products will be formally implemented in September 1st

What are the background and significance of the national standards for the revision of the "express package" series?
 
In February 6th, the State Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine and the National Standardization Management Commission officially released the national standards for express packaging products, including three parts: Express envelopes, packaging boxes and packaging bags. This standard will be formally implemented in September 1, 2018.
 
First of all, green development as one of the five major development concepts, has become the basic guidance of the national economic and social development. Eighteen a lot of ecological civilization construction of the party in the cause of socialism with Chinese five in one overall layout. In the fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee the green development as an important concept for economic and social development of the "guidelines" in 13th Five-Year and even longer period of time. Adhering to the concept of green development, forming green development mode and way of life, and building beautiful China are important implications of Xi Jinping's socialist thought with Chinese characteristics in the new era.  Nineteen report clearly put forward to promote green development, promote resource saving and recycling, advocating simplicity moderate, green and low carbon lifestyle; efforts to solve outstanding environmental problems, the construction of the government as the leading, enterprises, social organizations and the public participate in environmental governance system. These major policies and decisions have pointed out the strategic direction for the green development of express delivery, and put forward the task requirements.
 
Secondly, the issue of express packaging has aroused wide attention, and the State Council and relevant departments attach great importance to it. The State Council issued the "several opinions on promoting the development of express industry" and "on the promotion of e-commerce and express logistics coordinated development of opinions", clear requirements to promote green packaging, basically completed in 2020 inclusive urban and rural areas, advanced technology, quality service, safe and efficient, green energy delivery service system". In November 2017, the State Post Bureau and the national development and Reform Commission, Ministry of science and technology, Ministry of industry, Ministry of environmental protection, quality inspection administration, the National Standards Commission and other ten departments jointly issued the "guidance" on promoting the express industry green packaging work, to further optimize the top-level design, emphasizing innovation lead, strengthen legal protection, strengthen the coordination. To promote the establishment of a sound management system Chinese characteristics of express industry packaging.  In recent two years, "let express green" has also become a concern of some representatives and members of the two sessions. They have appealed for early formulation of relevant standards for express green packaging.
 
Third, the volume of express delivery has increased year by year, and the impact of packaging waste on the environment can not be ignored. The total package of express industry in China is huge, diversified and growing rapidly. In 2017, the volume of express delivery service business in China has exceeded 40 billion, an increase of 28% compared to the same period last year, and continues to rank the number one in the world. Along with the rapid development of express industry, the use of packaging products such as envelopes, packaging boxes, bags, tapes and other products will increase at the same time. The problems of resources consumption and environmental pressure must be highly valued and effective. The positive application of low pollution, low consumption, low emission, green packaging supplies high performance, high efficiency and high efficiency, has become an inevitable requirement to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the express industry, but also Chinese express enterprises to "go out" to participate in international competition, to enter the international market process cannot be avoided.
 
Finally, the contents of the old national standard of "express package" are missing and can not meet the new needs of economic and social development. In June 2009, the old national standard of "express package" was officially released. Under the environment at that time, the standard has played an active role in the production, use and testing of the standard express package. But from the current development situation, the old standard is not fully involved in environmental protection, standard revision perfect, design R & D and production testing work to guide the courier packaging supplies production enterprises to effectively carry out the green courier packaging supplies, and guide courier companies, electricity providers, the majority of users and people's consumption tendency, better to meet the new requirements of the new period express green development.

What are the main problems to be solved in the revision of the national standard?
 
The first is the lack of standard content. At present, the production, use and testing of green and environmental packaging products are not standard. It is urgent to revise the standards and provide guidance.
 
The second is that the original standard does not consider improving the operation efficiency. The size of the express packing box does not form a size chain relationship with the pallets, containers, vehicles and other delivery tools. In reality, it leads to the disconnection between packaging and loading and transportation, and the processing efficiency is not high.
 
The third is the problem of standard coordination. Standards are inconsistent with other related standards in terms of names and values of individual technical indicators, so we need to modify, perfect and integrate them to maintain consistency between standards.
 
In order to solve the above problems, in the process of standard revision, we insist on the following points:
 
First, adhere to the standards of the advanced nature. Standards in the design of green related content, we should fully learn from international standards, developed countries' relevant regulations and domestic advanced standards, and actively promote the application of advanced and mature science and technology in China's express industry, and promote the upgrading, upgrading and upgrading of the express industry.
 
Second, adhere to the scientific nature of the standard. The standard revision should carry out the basic modulus requirements and consider the connection between the standards. At the same time, from the actual operation, we should increase field research, expert demonstration and sample detection, repeatedly demonstrate the rationality of indicators, and ensure the scientificalness of standard contents.
 
Third, adhere to the applicability of the standard. The revision of standards should not be divorced from reality. We should take full account of the current national conditions and the production capacity and technology level of domestic enterprises, and deal with the relationship between the needs of green development and the cost bearing capacity of express enterprises.
 
How does the revision of the standard reflect the important content of green?
 
Green is the top priority of this standard revision. The new national standard, combined with the practice of the industry, has increased a lot of content in this area and carried out a great deal of innovation, which is embodied in the following aspects:
 
One is to increase the limit of heavy metals and specific substances. In order to reduce the negative effects of heavy metals and specific substances on soil, water and human body, the standard puts forward that the contents of four heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium in express packaging and express delivery boxes should not exceed 100 mg per kilogram. For the express packaging bags, the new national standard also put forward the limit requirement for six kinds of o-benzoic acid two carboxylic acid ester (also called plasticizer), solvent residue and benzene solvent residue.
 
The two is to promote the use of biodegradable materials. The standard first put forward that "express packaging bags should adopt biodegradable plastics", and made substantial progress in promoting green environmental technology and reducing white pollution. This kind of plastic bags being discarded in nature condition (such as soil, sand, etc.) and specific conditions (such as composting, anaerobic digestion, aqueous medium), microorganisms in the nature by causing degradation, after 6 months can be decomposed into two natural degradation, carbon dioxide, methane, and water containing elements of mineralized inorganic salts, the impact on the natural environment can be negligible.
 
Three is the technical requirements for printing ink. On the one hand, greatly reduce the use of ink, standard of courier packaging supplies should keep the material color, printing area should not exceed 50% of the total area of the surface; in addition to advocate the use of water-based ink printing, which can avoid caused by using hot melt based ink solvent residue on the environment have a negative effect. These contents in the standard implement the relevant requirements of greening, guiding enterprises to carry out the design, production and testing of express packaging products, effectively reducing the ecological impact and environmental burdens.

What are the provisions of this new revised standard in the area of reduction?
 
The problem of reducing the quantity is very important, which involves reducing the consumption of raw materials and saving resources. It may be insignificant to save some products in unit products, but to put it into a 40 billion year scale and expanding industry, it has great and practical significance. How to realize the reduction, the standard has been stipulated in three aspects.
 
One is to reduce the quantitative requirements of the express cover paper.  The quantity of the raw materials was reduced to less than 200 grams from 250 grams per square meter and 300 grams per square meter, and the decrease was more than 20%.
 
Two is to reduce the minimum thickness of plastic film packaging bags, from the old national standard 0.06 millimeter to 0.03 millimeter, the decline to 50%.
 
The three is to express a single and double corrugated paper packing box material selecion no longer make regulations, under the premise of ensuring the safety of the express delivery concerns, as long as the material meets the breaking resistance, side pressure index and puncture strength can, promote the application of high strength, low quantity of raw materials in the express industry.
 
Four is to reduce the air cushion film type of express packaging bags, plastic woven fabric type of express packaging bags of quantitative requirements.  Standard research units have also been roughly measured on the scale of last year's business. If you use to express envelope of the new national standard requirements of the proportion increased by 1 percentage points each, can save 6400 tons of paper products, which means that will save a lot of wood; the use of courier bags reached the new national standard requirements of the proportion increased by 1 percentage points each, can save 4200 tons of oil. In addition, from the test and practical application, the material reduction can also meet the needs of the full process express service.
 
What breakthroughs have been made in the new revised standard for the recycling of express packages?
 
According to the internationally recognized green packaging 4R1D principles (reduce reduction, reuse reuse, recover recovery, recycle recycling cycle, degradable degradation), recyclable utilization is also an important component of green packaging. At present, a large number of our express packaging products are abandoned after being used for a single time, and failed to recycle. We strongly reflect that we hope that standards can be breakthroughs and guidance. This time we also focus on this problem.
 
The standard has been required from three aspects, one is to increase the type of use of two times. The difference between the two use sealing sleeve and the ordinary express seal is that there are two easy tearing belts and two sealing tape in its sealing position, which is convenient for repeated use. For example, this kind of seal can be used in the business of bank signing and return and so on. It can save resources and reduce the cost through two use. The two is to encourage the repeated use of the express packing box. According to the requirements of the general specification for reusable packing boxes, the new national standard suggests that the used express boxes have breakage signs, but they can be reused as long as they do not affect functions and uses. The three is to increase the printing of the related symbols. For different types of express packaging products, the standard requirements are printed with recyclable signs, reused signs or plastic product signs, which is convenient for consumers to identify and follow up classification recovery and utilization.
 
What are the new standards in promoting efficiency?
 
In 2016, the Ministry of industry and Commerce jointly issued the directive on speeding up the transformation and development of China's packaging industry, and clearly put forward the requirement that the base size of packaging is 600mm * 400mm. This is actually the problem of promoting the development of the unit logistics from the source of the package. Package is the basic unit of the delivery operation. After packing, it is beneficial to the loading of containers and pallets.
 
Therefore, the size and size of the express package determines the loading efficiency of the container and the conveyance. In order to implement the spirit of the document, to further promote the courier packaging standardization module, based on the new national standard packaging base module size, further adjust the plane size optimization of the FedEx box, so that the whole number times between the two, in order to establish the dimension chain FedEx box, tray, container cage, transport vehicles and other vehicles this tool, for the advantages of resources and the combination efficiency of integrated transport, intermodal, fast handling, transport and processing, improve the express transportation and operation efficiency, save time, save manpower, save costs and create the conditions.

What is the effect of the implementation of the new standard?
 
The current "express package" national standard is a recommendation standard, mainly based on the following considerations:
 
First, the application of related technologies in the postal industry. Biodegradation is currently accepted, international and domestic completely biodegradable, do not have negative effects on the soil, but its application in the postal industry is still in the initial stage, consider the green environmental protection is a systematic project, not overnight, the recommended standard guide should be mainly at the present stage.
 
Two is the technical level and production capacity of the production type enterprises. After the promulgation of the new national standard, production enterprises are affected by factors such as raw material synthetic technology development, process equipment adaptability adjustment, production capacity restriction and so on. The adjustment of product structure needs a corresponding cycle.
 
The three is the ability to bear the cost of the enterprise. At present, express enterprises are generally faced with greater cost pressures in operation, with limited profit margins, and the cost of packaging products, especially biodegradable bags, is relatively high. There is a gradual process of pushing them apart. After studying and combining the factors above, this standard is finally recommended as the standard of recommendation. Standards are mainly from a technical point of view, and put forward relevant normative guidelines. At this stage, guidance and encouragement are the main driving force to promote enterprises to actively implement relevant provisions of standards. In the next stage, the State Post Office will also work together with relevant departments to intensify efforts to study supporting measures and make standard implementation a conscious action of enterprises.
 
What measures will be taken by the State Post Office in the standardization work to promote the green package of express delivery?
 
On the basis of issuing and implementing the new national standard of express package supplies, we will also focus on the following aspects:
 
First, we should further improve the standard system of express green packaging, research and formulate general technical conditions of express packaging, technical standards of postal packing and filling, and express package, so as to make up for the short board of green packaging standards.
 
The two is to cooperate with the relevant departments to study and introduce green packaging evaluation standards, and lay the foundation for the establishment of a unified green product certification system.
 
The three is to encourage social organizations to set up group standards for express green packaging which are stricter than national standards and industry standards, and give full play to the positive role of industry associations and associations in standardization work.
 
Four is to encourage the production enterprises and express enterprises to implement the express green packaging standards of self statement, from the sense of acceptance of social supervision.
 
The five is to strengthen cooperation with the relevant departments to do a good job of standard training, publicity and implementation.
 
How to carry out the national standard of "express package" series?
 
First, we should strengthen the standard propaganda and training. Through today's online interview, Zhuanban interpretation, held special training in a variety of ways, standard widely publicized to the majority of enterprises and consumers to develop the background, purpose and main content, strengthen the learning standards, the implementation of standards and awareness of the importance and urgency, form a good atmosphere of learning, knowledge, understand the standard standard standard, standard "the.
 
Secondly, to cooperate with the relevant departments to promote the green certification of the express package. According to "the relevant requirements of the general office of the State Council on the establishment of a unified standard of green products, certification and labeling system in accordance with the" opinions ", open and fair, voluntary principle, green certification with the relevant departments to carry out the express packaging products, guide and support the electricity providers, courier companies and users of products through the green packaging express packaging products certification.
 
Third, to strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of the enterprise standards. We should increase the quality supervision and inspection and information of the Green Express packaging products to promote the implementation and implementation of the standard. At the same time, the express green packaging into the green product credit system construction, explore the establishment of a "blacklist system", and promote the establishment of a joint disciplinary mechanism.
 
Fourth, carry out the demonstration work of green packaging pilot. Support express companies to carry out the pilot project of "industrial product Ecology (green) design", and carry out green packaging application pilot in main brand express enterprises and express logistics information platform enterprises. To encourage and guide the main brand express enterprises and enterprises, enterprises jointly carry out sanitation recycling "express industry + recycling industry" directional cooperation pilot, through the above work experience, replicable replicable pilot experience, step by step in the whole industry. Through the above measures, we should guide and promote express delivery enterprises, related enterprises and users to actively implement the new national standard, so that standards can really be implemented and play their due role.
 
Source: logistics Time, Liangshan State Logistics Association

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