(JiMao July 13), August 23, 1999, the UPU Congress held in China for the first time. 22nd Universal Postal



Assembly opening ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 23, 1999. More than 2,300 representatives of the UPU's 189 members gathered together a 21st century international postal plans. This is the Universal Postal Union was established 125 years and China's accession to the General Assembly 85 years of the Universal Postal Union, held in China for the first time. Assembly continued until the end of September 15. The main task of this conference is to amend various laws and regulations, the development of postal development strategy, approved expenses incurred, the members of the Electoral Council of Administration and Postal Operations Council, the election of the UPU International Bureau of the General Assembly, Deputy Secretary. General Assembly Special-depth exploration of the opportunities and challenges faced by the World Postal Strategy, and eventually formed to determine the development goals for the next five years, so that the postal service to get a better development in the next century, the global communications market.
Universal Postal Union is an intergovernmental international organization agreed postal affairs, is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for postal affairs, headquartered in the Swiss capital Bern. UPU Congress is the highest authority of the UPU, composed of the representatives sent by the Governments of Member States. The postal sector of the UPU's 189 member countries constitute the world's largest physical delivery network. About 6.1 million postal employees work in more than 700,000 post offices around the world, processing about 430 billion domestic mail every day and nearly 10 billion international mail. [L $ dj��.����T]
Jiang Zemin's speech on the opening ceremony of the 22nd Universal Postal Congress. (History TodayOnHistory.com)