Study on the Economies of Scale in Chinese Express Industry

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10.2991/saeme-17.2017.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Express industry, Economies of scale, Industry concentration

Abstract

The development of Chinese express industry from the Express Industry Development Index (EIDI) has been analyzed which indicates Chinese express business grow rapidly and exist economies of scale. Then this paper analyzes the economies of scale in express industry from -input factors and output factors, the result exhibits express industry is in increasing returns scale. However, industry concentration analysis shows there is still in a fierce competition among the China's express delivery industry, and leading industry is difficult to maintain absolute dominance, express delivery industry structure is reconstructing. Therefore, Chinese express industry is still in a weak economy of scale and still need to speed up the scale of construction.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Kaixuan Hu
PY  - 2017/07
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TI  - Study on the Economies of Scale in Chinese Express Industry
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Sports, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (SAEME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 267
EP  - 270
SN  - 2352-5398
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