Study on the Economies of Scale in Chinese Express Industry

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.