In the first half of the year, 33.88 billion packages were delivered via express services in China, with total operating income of 382.38 billion yuan ($54.49 billion), according to data released by the State Post Bureau on July 14.

Express services in China saw year-on-year increases in both package amount and revenues, up 22.1 percent and 12.6 percent, respectively. Among them, intra-city deliveries of packages registered at 5.62 billion in the first half, up 10.6 percent from a year earlier, inter-city deliveries recorded 27.5 billion, up 24.7 percent year-on-year, and cross-border deliveries or deliveries from and to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan registered at 760 million, up 20.9 percent year-on-year.

The data also showed the top 10 Chinese cities with the highest revenue gained from express services in the first half of the year. Let's take a look.