Storyline: China's courier industry hits new milestone in parcel processing [Voice_over] China's postal and courier network has reached a milestone earlier than expected this year. Officials say the service processed 150 billion parcels as of October 11th, a threshold they reached roughly 37 days earlier than last year. The accelerated pace was largely credited to the sector's strategic shift from manual labor to automation. Places like this logistics center in north China's Hebei Province, where the entire process, from inbound unloading and sorting to outbound shipment, is fully automated. At the system's core, a smart sorting machine can process 80,000 parcels per hour, with an accuracy rate of 99.9 percent. The automation has translated into significant capacity gains with the hub now able to manage up to 5 million parcels daily, which is about 40 percent more than traditional postal facilities. There are currently over 1,300 large-scale automated parcel handling centers distributed in cities across China. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]