World Postal Union

The Republic of China joined the UPU on March 1, 1914. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese government sent representatives to attend relevant meetings held by the Universal Postal Union. On May 21, 1951, the legal seat of the UPU was the "Republic of China". The 26th General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution that the People's Republic of China replaced the legal seat of the "Republic of China" in the United Nations. The Universal Postal Union passed a resolution on April 13, 1972, and the People's Republic of China obtained the legal seat in the Universal Postal Union.

On April 13, 1972, the Congress of the World Postal Union adopted a resolution recognizing the Government of the People's Republic of China as the only legal representative of China in the World Postal Union, and on May 8, 1972, the Continental Government notified the World Postal Union and decided to participate in all activities of the World Postal Union. Since the early 1980s, China became a member of the Executive Council of the World Postal Union and the Advisory Council for Postal Research. In order to more widely promote the importance of postal in the political, economic and cultural development of countries and its linkage role in the friendly ties between the people of countries, to introduce the history and achievements of the World Postal Union, the 16th Congress of the World Postal Union unanimously decided to establish the World Postal Union as the World Postal Day on October 9 and requested that

Introduction to the Universal Postal Union

The World Postal Union or the Postal Union is an international intergovernmental organization that deals with international postal affairs, its predecessor is the General Postal Union, established on 9 October 1874 and changed its current name in 1878.The World Postal Union has become a specialized agency of the United Nations on international postal affairs since 1 July 1978, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, with the purpose of promoting, organizing and improving international postal business and providing possible postal technical assistance to its members.