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SF Express

The latest news, analysis and opinion on SF Express. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

Chairman / President

Wang Wei

CEO / Managing Director

Wang Wei

CFO / Finance Director

He Jie

Industry

Logistics, Courier Services

Website

sf-express.com

Headquarters address

No. 1 Lingnan Road, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Stock Code

SZSE:002352

Year founded

1993

China Future Tech briefing

Aerospace | Flying cars take off as China extends drone-market domination

Chinese electric-vehicle makers are branching into making flying cars, adding to the nation’s booming low-altitude economy.

4 Dec 2025 - 12:50PM

Robotics

UBTech’s 2026 humanoid robots production to grow 10-fold to 5,000

19 Nov 2025 - 10:44PM

Hong Kong transport

SF Express looks at drone deliveries between Hong Kong, 4 mainland China cities

10 Oct 2025 - 8:51PMvideocam

Hong Kong transport

Drone sends medical supplies from Hong Kong Island to Cheung Chau in 20 minutes

Transport chief lauds pilot project, with delivery time significantly cut from 65 minutes by ferry.

14 Sep 2025 - 8:39PM

The pilot project aims to deliver medical supplies from Hong Kong Island to Cheung Chau, flying a 12km route between Cyberport in Southern district and St John Hospital. Photo: Handout

China's economic recovery

China’s public bus companies look to curb losses with pet rides, postal delivery

Public bus companies activate their idle fleet capacity, turning underutilised resources into new revenue streams.

22 Jul 2025 - 9:56PMvideocam

Hong Kong stock market

Chinese courier SF to raise US$752 million via Hong Kong shares, bonds

The transactions represent Shenzhen-listed SF’s first offshore fundraising since its initial public offering in Hong Kong in November.

26 Jun 2025 - 4:33PM

Robotics

China’s industrial robot output soars, as Unitree and UBTech take lead

Production of industrial robots in April outpaced increases seen in earlier months amid national enthusiasm around the technology.

19 May 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

A UBTech humanoid robot picks up an object during a demonstration simulating a factory’s assembly line. Photo: Reuters

Transport and logistics

Indonesia a magnet for Chinese logistics, supply chain operators: SF group

A growing economy, with multilingual talent and vast geographical expanse, makes Indonesia a good choice for expansion, SF unit says.

9 Jan 2025 - 12:49PM

Autonomous vehicles

Chinese self-driving truck start-up Autra.tech scales down operations

Financing issues and potential US sanctions prompt Autra.tech to cut salaries of staff, cancel new development and suspend delivery orders.

5 Nov 2024 - 8:00PM

Greater Bay Area

Drone delivery service launches in China’s Greater Bay Area

Flight between Zhongshan and megacity of Shenzhen takes around 45 minutes and costs 40 yuan (US$5.60) per order, according to UAV-maker Phoenix Wings, which is backed by Chinese logistics giant SF Express.

14 Apr 2024 - 3:00PMvideocam

The drone delivery service between Shenzhen and Zhongshan will operate six days a week and can carry goods weighing up to 20kg (44lbs). Photo: X / @ThisisZhongshan

Two Sessions 2024

Work-life balance urged to protect China’s workers from ‘invisible overtime’

With China faced with a faltering employment environment, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference delegate Lyu Guoquan says the idea of ‘offline rest’ should be added to its labour laws.

10 Mar 2024 - 8:28PMvideocam

Employees should not work more than eight hours per day, or 40 hours per week, on average, according to China’s labour laws. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong stock market

Hong Kong IPOs: here’s what’s in store in 2024 after a miserable 2023

Hong Kong’s IPO ranking sank to the 8th this year. But analysts are confident the stock exchange can shrug off a dismal year, pointing to potentially lower rates next year and China’s policy boost for the economy.

30 Dec 2023 - 10:00AM

IPO

Cainiao, Midea, SF and Movoi among hotly anticipated Hong Kong IPOs of 2024

After a lacklustre year for fundraising in Hong Kong, market participants are pinning their hopes on a turnaround in the primary market, expecting companies to revive dormant IPO plans.

25 Dec 2023 - 10:00AM

Business of climate change

China urges couriers to go green as packaging waste piles up amid e-commerce boom

China’s decarbonisation campaign has its cross hairs trained on the country’s mountain of discarded courier packaging material created by a boom in e-commerce at a time when Beijing is scrambling to meet its ambitious climate goals.

19 Dec 2023 - 4:45PM

Workers prepare packages for delivery ahead of the Singles Day shopping festival at a logistics center in Nanjing, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on November 10, 2023. Photo: AFP

Electric & new energy vehicles

Ikea-backed Chinese NEV rental firm DST raises US$80 million from new investor

DST Electrical Vehicle Rental has secured US$80 million in funding from new investors, giving a boost to the company’s expansion plans.

13 Dec 2023 - 9:00AMvideocam

Shenzhen-based DST Electrical Vehicle Rental provides NEV lorries to logistics operators in China. Photo: Handout

IPO

J&T Global Express to raise up to US$520 million as Hong Kong IPO oversubscribed

J&T Global Express, an Asian courier service group based in Shanghai, could raise as much as HK$4.1 billion (US$520 million) from its initial public offering after orders from investors exceeded the shares offered for sale.

26 Oct 2023 - 8:01PM

IPO

Indonesian courier J&T Global aims to raise US$500 million in Hong Kong IPO

Indonesian courier services start-up J&T Global Express said on Monday it planned to raise up to HK$3.92 billion (US$500.97 million) in Hong Kong, in what is set to be the Hong Kong stock exchange’s second-largest initial public offering (IPO) of the year.

16 Oct 2023 - 4:33PM

Alibaba

Alibaba’s Cainiao to heat up China’s logistics industry after US$1 billion IPO

About a decade after Alibaba founder Jack Ma pushed forward its creation, Cainiao has become one of the world’s top logistics services providers and a big opportunity for global investors when it lists in Hong Kong.

28 Sep 2023 - 2:05PM

Alibaba Group Holding founder Jack Ma led the establishment of logistics enterprise Cainiao in 2013 to strengthen the foundation of his e-commerce empire. Photos: Shutterstock

ByteDance

Douyin makes aggressive push in food delivery in bid to take on Meituan

The Chinese version of TikTok is expanding to 24 new markets including Shenzhen and Tianjin to capture a larger slice of China’s lucrative food delivery pie.

13 Sep 2023 - 12:49PMvideocam

UAE

SF Airlines launches weekly cargo route to Dubai from Hubei

Prior to this route, SF Airlines and Etihad Airways had jointly launched the Wuhan-Abu Dhabi air cargo route to boost air logistics.

16 Aug 2023 - 5:53PM

Hong Kong property

Hong Kong’s IPO market slump bruises office leasing demand: Savills

A slowdown in public markets has hurt demand for office leasing in Hong Kong, but a turnaround in deal activity with a boost from blockbuster listings could improve the prospects for the second half of the year, according to real estate firm Savills.

14 Aug 2023 - 10:35AM

View of commercial building in Central. Photo: Dickson Lee

IPO

Chinese courier SF plans Hong Kong share sale to raise up to US$3.3 billion

The move to sell up to 540 million shares in Hong Kong shows faith in the e-commerce business and adds to evidence that the worst is over for China’s regulatory crackdown on Big Tech companies.

2 Aug 2023 - 4:23PM

SF Express courier boxes are seen at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen in a 2015 file photo. Photo: Reuters

Trending in China

Awesome! Movers in China boost productivity, reduce injuries with exoskeleton suits

During the busy summer moving season in China this year, a number of mainland companies are boosting efficiency and reducing injuries with wearable exoskeleton robots.

25 Jul 2023 - 9:19AM

E-commerce

Meituan takes a leaf out of new rival Douyin’s book by adding more video

As ByteDance’s Douyin pushes into the local delivery market, dominant player Meituan has taken a page from Douyin’s video playbook.

17 Jul 2023 - 10:30PM

China technology

How a Chinese tech giant cracked food delivery by drone in urban Shenzhen

Food delivery platform Meituan is using China’s tech hub, Shenzhen, as a testing ground for meal delivery by drone in densely built urban areas. With refinements, it could take off in a big way.

17 Jun 2023 - 8:28AM

Food delivery platform Meituan is using China’s tech hub Shenzhen as a testing ground for drone deliveries, and with residents getting used to the technology, it could soon take off in a big way. Photo: Meituan

Drones

China’s drone industry crosses US$14-billion mark in annual output in 2022

That growth underscores the industry’s resilience in the face of US trade sanctions, which included the blacklisting of consumer drone giant DJI last year.

5 Jun 2023 - 11:41PM

The 7th Drone World Congress was held from June 2 to 4, 2023, in Shenzhen. Photo: SCMP

Artificial intelligence

AI sector a bright spot in tough jobs market for China’s graduates

Job offers for graduates with degrees in large language models and related areas of AI have surged, according to Liepin report.

3 Jun 2023 - 7:26AMvideocam