China’s courier sector    1    (see) rapid growth in the last five-day May Day holiday, with parcels    2    (collect) and delivered both surpassing 1 billion pieces, People’s Daily reported. A total of 1.1 billion parcels were collected during the period, up 41.8 percent year-on-year, while 1.04 billion parcels were delivered, up 38.93 percent from a year    3    (early), the State Post Bureau said Wednesday. China’s express    4    (deliver) business rebounded from a low level in January, and experienced positive growth in February. At present, the growth remained    5    a high level of over 30 percent.

The online shopping festival,    6    runs from April 28 to May 10 and is jointly launched by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau and the China Consumers Association,    7     (promote) express deliveries in the near term,    8    official from the bureau said. The booming online sales of food, daily    9    (necessary) and electronic devices has stimulated small and medium-sized enterprises to resume work, the bureau said,    10    (add) that online sales of agricultural products also maintained fast growth thanks to sufficient supply and demand.