Study Times, September 30, 2024, page 1
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) drew a grand blueprint for further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, which is a re-declaration of what banner to hold and what road to take in the new era and new journey, and fully demonstrates the historical initiative, strong determination and mission of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core to lead the social revolution with the Party's self-revolution and unswervingly carry out the reform to the end, which will surely provide a strong impetus and institutional guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. Customs is an important part of the national governance system, at the forefront of reform and opening up, we must be a good "vanguard" in the study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the plenum, and effectively unify thoughts and actions to the spirit of the plenum, in-depth understanding of the guiding ideology, general objectives, major principles, major measures, and important requirements to further deepen the reform in an all-round way, and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply to all the customs officers of Khunjerab Customs, and devote themselves to the wave of reform with greater courage, greater consciousness and greater responsibility, and build smart customsThe "Smart Customs and Power the Country" action is the general starting point to further improve the efficiency and service level of supervision, and better promote Chinese-style modernization with modern customs services.
We have a deep understanding of the historic achievements made in comprehensively deepening reform in the new era, and strengthen our confidence and determination to promote Chinese-style modernization
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the cause of the Party and the people to catch up with the times. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has promoted the comprehensive deepening of reform with unprecedented determination and intensity, put forward a series of innovative theories, adopted a series of major measures, and made a series of major breakthroughs, making solid steps in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Practice has fully proved that Chinese-style modernization is not only right and successful, but also stable and well. From the perspective of opening up to the outside world, it is mainly reflected in the "four historic leaps".
The country's governance system and governance capacity have made a historic leap. Coordinate and promote the overall layout of the "five-in-one", coordinate the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, vigorously promote the reform of the party and state institutions, and make significant progress in improving the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The customs conscientiously implemented the major decisions and arrangements made by the Party Central Committee to include the inspection and quarantine responsibilities and teams into the customs, promoted the comprehensive and in-depth integration of customs inspection business and team, made breakthroughs in the reform of the port management system, greatly improved the efficiency of import and export customs clearance, and strengthened the national security barrier. It fully demonstrates the party's centralized and unified leadership and the political advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.
We will promote high-quality development and high-level opening-up to achieve a historic leap. Focusing on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, we will completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, steadily expand institutional opening-up, open up more space for China's development, and provide new development opportunities for the world while developing itself. From the perspective of customs, the scale of trade has increased steadily, and the mainland has maintained its position as the largest country in trade in goods for seven consecutive years, with the scale exceeding 40 trillion yuan, and the international market share of exports has increased from 11.7% in 2013 to 14.2% in 2023. In 2023, the total export of "new three" products will exceed the trillion yuan mark for the first time, and the market share of mainland intermediate goods in the global intermediate goods will increase from 8.8% in 2013 to 12% in 2023, further expanding its influence on the global industrial chain. High-level opening-up has been steadily promoted, with a total of 311 ports open to the outside world across the country, and a three-dimensional and all-round port opening pattern of water, land and air has been accelerated. There are a total of 173 special customs supervision areas, with less than 5/100,000 of the country's land area, contributing nearly one-fifth of the country's import and export value, and playing an important role in the introduction of foreign capital, absorption of foreign advanced technology and management experience.
The effectiveness of reform to benefit the people has achieved a historic leap. Adhere to the supremacy of the people, always ensure that reform is for the people, reform relies on the people, and the fruits of reform are shared by the people, and constantly meet the people's new expectations for a better life. The customs has always adhered to the "people's customs for the people", taking the satisfaction of the masses and enterprises as the "touchstone" to test the effectiveness of the reform, accelerating the construction of smart customs, and greatly improving the efficiency of supervision services through "non-inductive customs clearance and intelligent supervision", so as to achieve "nothing to disturb and ubiquitous", so that enterprises and the people can have a more satisfying sense of gain, a more sustainable sense of happiness, and a more secure sense of security. Vigorously deepen the reform of customs clearance operations, fully realize the integration of national customs clearance, and build a "single window" for international trade covering ports across the country, so that enterprises can handle customs clearance business online in any part of the country without leaving home. We will provide strong services to ensure supply and price stability, consolidate and deepen cooperation in customs inspection and quarantine, steadily promote quarantine access, and allow more than 700 kinds of food and agricultural products from more than 110 countries to be exported to China, so as to effectively meet the needs of the domestic market.
The international discourse and influence have achieved a historic leap. China has put into practice the important concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, comprehensively promoted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, firmly upheld international fairness and justice, and advocated the practice of true multilateralism. In 2023, the mainland has become a major trading partner of more than 150 countries and regions, and the Belt and Road Initiative has become a popular international public good and international cooperation platform in the world today, with the total import and export volume of the countries increasing from more than 10 trillion yuan in 2013 to nearly 20 trillion yuan in 2023. The important cooperation concept of "Smart Customs, Smart Border and Smart Connectivity" has been widely recognized, and the World Customs Organization (WCO) has made every effort to promote the "Smart Customs" partnership program and lead the reshaping of international customs rules. Reciprocity is becoming stronger and stronger, deepening the cooperation of "Authorized Economic Operator" (AEO), signing 28 mutual recognition agreements, 54 countries (regions) of mutual recognition, ranking first in the world in the number of mutual recognition agreements signed and the number of countries (regions), and nearly 6,000 advanced customs certification enterprises enjoy the convenience of customs clearance at home and abroad.
The historic achievements made in comprehensively deepening reform in the new era are fundamentally due to the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The national customs must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", enhance the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", and achieve the "two maintenance", in-depth study and implementation of a series of new ideas, new views and new assertions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on comprehensively deepening the reform, adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership over the customs work, further deepen the customs reform in an all-round way, promote the modernization of the customs, fully fulfill the duties and missions of guarding the country and promoting development, and be a good guardian of the country that reassures the party and satisfies the people.
We will always bear in mind the "great power of the country", and unswervingly take the lead and set an example in further deepening reform in an all-round way and promoting Chinese-style modernization
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that Chinese-style modernization has been continuously promoted in the reform and opening up, and it will surely open up broad prospects in the reform and opening up. Customs modernization is an important part of China's modernization and an important driving force for further deepening reform in an all-round way. Customs has the conditions and it is necessary to take the first step and do more, consciously put the further comprehensive deepening of customs reform and the promotion of customs modernization into the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization to position, plan and promote, and continuously improve the level of customs system innovation and governance capacity building, so as to not only add glory to a field, but also add color to the overall situation.
Bravely take on the mission and serve the overall situation. Deeply understand that the implementation of the reform and deployment of the plenum and the further comprehensive deepening of customs reform and the promotion of customs modernization are an interconnected whole and must be promoted in an integrated manner. On the one hand, to further deepen the customs reform and promote the modernization of the customs, it is necessary to benchmark against the table, pay close attention to the implementation, implement the spirit of the plenary session in all aspects of the whole process of customs reform and development, empower and increase the efficiency of customs reform with the construction of smart customs and the action of "strengthening the country with smart customs", enhance the systematic, holistic and collaborative nature of the reform, break down the institutional and institutional obstacles that restrict the high-quality development of customs, and better serve the "strong" of the construction of a strong country with the "wisdom" of smart customs. On the other hand, in the implementation of the reform deployment of the plenum, the customs must take the initiative to undertake, take the initiative, give full play to its functions, take the construction of smart customs and the action of "smart customs to strengthen the country" as the solution to the problem, implement the reform tasks assigned to the customs by the Party Central Committee to the letter, and strive to write a good chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Strictly guard the country and maintain security. At present, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, various imported risks and challenges are becoming more and more significant, and the weight of national security in national security is becoming more and more important. As the world's largest country in trade in goods, the customs has a wide range of responsibilities, a long chain of supervision, a variety of regulatory objects, and high pressure on security risks, so it must fully implement the overall national security concept, put risk prevention and safety in a more prominent position, build a solid national security barrier, deepen reform, and "two-wheel drive" of science and technology, create the most competitive customs supervision system and mechanism in the world, prevent risks and respond to challenges with a perfect system, and effectively protect political security, economic security, social security, biological security and ecological security, comprehensive security, etc., to ensure high-quality development with a high level of security.
Promote development, maintain stability and improve quality. At present, economic globalization is encountering headwinds, the complexity, severity and uncertainty of the external environment are rising, and the development of the mainland's foreign trade is facing new challenges. The more severe the situation, the stronger the demand of enterprises for cross-border trade facilitation and opening up new markets. Customs must take the initiative to give full play to its functions, improve the quality of policy supply, vigorously help enterprises to bail out, promote the effective improvement of foreign trade quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and sing the bright theory of China's economy; Deepen the innovation of the customs supervision service system, promote the formation of a new pattern of opening up to the outside world on a larger scale, in a wider field and at a deeper level, and promote the free and convenient flow of various elements across borders, so as to achieve both "live" and "manageable", and promote high-quality development with high-level opening-up.
Improve the system and lay a solid foundation. The system is a fundamental, overall, stable, and long-term issue related to the development of the cause of the party and the country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Customs has resolutely implemented Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, coordinated the promotion of reform and the construction of the rule of law, formed a customs legal and normative system led by the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China, including 8 laws, 23 administrative regulations and 149 customs rules, deeply promoted the integration of customs clearance across the country and the deep integration of customs inspection business, deepened the reform of the administrative examination and approval system, and made all aspects of laws and regulations more mature and formalized. As a law enforcement department, the customs must adhere to the system construction as the main line, simultaneously promote the construction of laws and regulations in the process of deepening reform, solidify the achievements of reform in a timely manner, and better play the role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations and benefiting the long-term.
The decision-making and deployment of the plenary session will be implemented to the letter, and all aspects of the whole process of customs reform and development will be implemented to the letter
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that reform and opening up can only be carried out, not completed. Customs is first of all a political organ, we must study and implement the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task for the current and future period, strengthen the sense of reform, enhance the courage of reform, enhance the ability to reform, around the plenary session of the deployment of the reform tasks involving the customs, clear task book, timetable, priority, to ensure that the spirit of the plenary session in the customs system to achieve results, blossom and bear fruit.
First, we will further improve the security mechanism of the Customs to protect the country, focusing on the modernization of the national security system and capabilities. National security is an important foundation for the steady and long-term development of Chinese-style modernization. Customs must focus on the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, improve the national security system, improve the public security governance mechanism, improve the social governance system, improve the foreign-related national security mechanism and other relevant deployments, and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests.
Improve risk prevention and control mechanisms. Focus on the all-factor risks of "detention, concealment, escape, fraud, and harm", improve the "goods, documents, logistics, enterprises, personnel, and funds" co-prevention mechanism, improve the two-level risk management operation mechanism, promote the iterative upgrading of big data models and projects, optimize the deployment and control rules, and improve the accuracy and effectiveness of risk prevention and control. Complete the national biosecurity supervision, early warning, prevention and control system, improve multi-channel risk monitoring and multi-point triggering early warning mechanisms, and establish regional cross-border biosecurity coordination mechanisms. Strengthen the major epidemic prevention and control system and emergency capacity building at ports, and improve the capacity of port monitoring and early warning, epidemic prevention and control, emergency response, scientific and technological research and development, and material reserves. Establish a joint research and judgment mechanism for port risks, strengthen information sharing and mutual assistance in law enforcement with local and other ministries and commissions, strictly prevent the coupling, transformation and drift of various risks, and superimpose each other, so as to improve the overall effectiveness of risk prevention and control.
Improve the comprehensive supervision mechanism. Promote the clarification of the boundaries of departmental responsibilities, and actively participate in the country's comprehensive cross-departmental regulatory reform. Promote integrated and comprehensive supervision, and continue to build a full-chain supervision mechanism of "source control + port supervision + follow-up inspection + anti-smuggling". Deepen the reform of tax collection and management, and promote the optimization of the structure of import and export tariff rates. Deepen comprehensive governance and special rectification, and strengthen the supervision of import and export food, drugs, and commodities that involve the safety and health of the people. Consolidate the responsibility for safe production, improve the safety production investigation and rectification mechanism, and improve the prediction, early warning, plan, and rehearsal mechanism. Promote the reform of statistical systems and methods, and improve the institutional mechanisms for maintaining the authenticity of statistical data. Deepen international law enforcement cooperation in the field of security and help shape the external security environment.
Improve the scientific and technological support mechanism. Promote automatic intelligent supervision, accelerate intelligent risk screening, intelligent supervision operations, and intelligent operation monitoring. Construct a customs data management and application pattern with data resources, data governance, data services, and infrastructure as the main body, and data systems, data standards, data security, and data assurance as the support. Build an information system ecology, promote system integration and optimization, and unify design standards and specifications. Strengthen the allocation of intelligent equipment and facilities, and promote the formulation and development and application of intelligent equipment standards such as non-contact and non-intrusive law enforcement equipment, portable inspection and quarantine and rapid testing equipment. Optimize the professional and regional layout of the laboratory, strengthen equipment allocation and operation and maintenance, improve the management system, and create more national key and internationally certified laboratories.
Second, we will focus on improving the high-level opening-up system and mechanism, and further optimize the mechanism for customs to promote open development. Openness is a clear sign of Chinese modernization. Customs must focus on improving the high-level opening-up system and mechanism proposed by the plenum, steadily expand institutional opening-up, deepen the reform of the foreign trade system, optimize the layout of regional opening-up, and improve the mechanism for promoting high-quality "Belt and Road" cooperation, so as to help consolidate a more stable economic foundation, expand a broader international market, and create a more favorable development environment.
Improve the working mechanism for promoting cross-border trade facilitation. With the reform of the economic system as the traction, we will create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class port business environment, and build a new customs supervision mechanism based on credit supervision and centered on risk management. Deepen the integrated reform of the whole business field of the customs, improve and promote the integrated customs supervision model of domestic and foreign trade, and help build a unified national market. Establish a customs supervision model that is compatible with the development of new quality productivity, support the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones and overseas warehouses, and promote the healthy and standardized development of market procurement trade. Expand market access for agricultural and food products in a prudent and orderly manner, establish a customs clearance guarantee mechanism at key ports, support the construction of international logistics hubs and bulk commodity resource allocation hubs, and help improve the resilience and safety of industrial and supply chains.
Improve the working mechanism for promoting institutional opening-up. Actively align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, promote the convergence of customs systems and international rules, promote China's customs concepts, rules, standards and equipment to "go global", and actively participate in expanding the network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world. We will support the creation of a new highland for institutional opening-up, continue to promote policy innovation and regulatory reform in comprehensive bonded zones, and optimize the innovation mechanism of the customs supervision system in the pilot free trade zone. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of high-level open regional customs supervision systems such as the Hainan Free Trade Port and the Shanghai Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone. Support institutional innovation of major cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha and Hetao. Deepen the convergence of customs supervision systems and mechanisms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. We will improve the management planning of ports, optimize the layout of port opening, improve mechanisms such as the establishment and withdrawal of ports, promote the construction of high-level smart ports, and help form a comprehensive opening pattern of land and sea linkage at home and abroad, and mutual assistance between east and west. Implement the national regional development strategy, support the optimization of the division of labor in regional opening functions, and promote the orderly transfer of industrial gradients to the central and western regions. Expand and deepen cooperation between agencies and local governments, and improve the working mechanism for cooperation between customs and local governments.
Improve the working mechanism for serving the diplomacy of major countries. Guided by the diplomacy of the head of state and the diplomacy at home, we will deepen the cooperation of customs inspection and quarantine mechanisms. Serve high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, rely on the "single window" for international trade, strengthen the construction of multilateral customs cooperation platforms, optimize the multimodal transport supervision model, and support the construction of projects such as the China-Europe Railway Express and the Western New Land-Sea Corridor. Deeply participate in international customs governance, deepen cooperation with the World Customs Organization and the "Three Intelligences" project of relevant countries and regions, actively contribute the wisdom and solutions of China's customs, and lead the trend of world customs modernization. Improve the coordination and cooperation mechanism with relevant departments, and carry out external struggles in a reasonable, beneficial, and restrained manner.
Third, we should further improve the customs laws and regulations around the improvement of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. The rule of law is an important guarantee for China's modernization. Customs must focus on the improvement of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics proposed by the plenum, deepen the reform of the legislative field, further promote administration according to law, improve the judicial system and mechanism of fair law enforcement, strengthen the construction of foreign-related rule of law, and other relevant arrangements, and promote the further comprehensive deepening of customs reform on the track of rule of law.
Improve customs laws and regulations. Accelerate the legislative process of customs laws and regulations with the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China as the main body, coordinate the "establishment, amendment, abolition and interpretation", and build a systematic, scientific, standardized and efficient customs legal and regulatory system. Actively participate in the establishment of foreign-related rule of law, and promote the convergence and application of domestic legislation and international treaties. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao experience" in the new era, and establish and improve a diversified administrative dispute resolution mechanism. Strictly regulate fair and civilized law enforcement, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of customs administrative law enforcement.
Coordinate efforts to advance reform and the establishment of the rule of law. Use rule of law thinking and methods to advance reforms, give play to the role of the rule of law in guiding, promoting, regulating, and guaranteeing reforms, so that major reforms are based on the law. Establish a supporting mechanism for the coordination and optimization of laws and regulations, strengthen the legal review and control of major reforms such as the construction of smart customs and the "smart customs to strengthen the country" action, and revise and improve the supporting laws and regulations, so as to upgrade the results of reform into a legal system in a timely manner, and realize the organic connection between the rule of law and reform.
Improve the customs management system and mechanism. Further optimize and adjust the functional establishment of institutions, scientifically divide the powers of the General Administration, the customs directly under the General Administration, and the customs under the customs, clarify and optimize the functional positioning and division of responsibilities between functions and execution, center and site, ports and territories, and promote the in-depth integration of customs inspection. Give full play to the role of office integration, personnel and finance, internal supervision and other supporting and guaranteeing reforms, and form a joint force for reform. Promote the optimization of the functions of the dispatched agencies of "branches and two offices", and deepen the reform of technical institutions. We will continue to push forward the reform of the management system of the anti-smuggling department of the customs.
Fourth, focusing on strengthening the party's leadership and the reform of the party building system, we will further improve the customs implementation of the comprehensive and strict governance of the party system mechanism. The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for further deepening reform in an all-round way and promoting Chinese-style modernization. Customs must focus on the plenum proposed to improve the party's leadership level for further deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee to further deepen the reform in an all-round way, deepen the reform of the party building system, and further promote the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption, maintain a high degree of consciousness to lead the social revolution with the party's self-revolution, adhere to the spirit of reform and strict standards to govern the party, and provide a strong political guarantee for further deepening the customs reform.
Adhere to and strengthen the party's leadership over further deepening the customs reform in an all-round way. Adhere to and improve the "first issue" system and implement the closed-loop mechanism, and promote the implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. Give full play to the role of the leading group for comprehensively deepening the reform of customs at all levels, improve the implementation mechanism of reform promotion with clear responsibilities, complete chain and interlocking, strengthen the report on major matters, and enhance the ability of the party committees at the three levels to set the direction, seek the overall situation, set policies and promote reform. Implement the party's mass line in the new era, and fully absorb social expectations, the wisdom of the masses, expert opinions, and grassroots experience into the design of customs reform in a timely manner.
Improve the system and mechanism of customs party building. Construct a customs party building system and mechanism that adapts to the vertical management system, highlights the system of organs, and reflects the characteristics of the window industry. Unremittingly promote the party's innovative theoretical arming, improve the long-term mechanism of casting the soul with learning, increasing wisdom with learning, promoting positive trends with learning, and promoting cadres with learning, and enhance the political and organizational functions of grassroots party organizations. Implement a responsibility system for ideological work, and promote the normalization and institutionalization of education on ideals and beliefs. Implement and deepen the reform and deployment of the cadre and personnel system, adhere to the principle of "one ruler, one order, and one game of chess", and vigorously select cadres who are politically competent, dare to take responsibility, are determined to reform, have outstanding achievements, and are honest and honest. Improve and optimize the assessment work mechanism, implement the "three distinctions", and encourage party members and cadres to forge ahead and start a business. We will further promote the "Three-year Action to Enhance the Capacity of National Guards", and comprehensively improve political capabilities, gatekeeping service capabilities, professional and technical capabilities, cultural shaping capabilities, and anti-corruption and degeneration capabilities.
Improve the working mechanism for the integrated promotion of those who dare not be corrupt, cannot be corrupted, and do not want to be corrupted. Improve the responsibility system of the customs to comprehensively and strictly govern the party by stratification and classification, and promote the normalization and long-term effect of party discipline learning and education. Severely punish new types of corruption and hidden corruption, focus on law enforcement and non-law enforcement key areas to carry out special rectification, deepen the use of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline, and further promote the "double investigation of one case" in the fight against smuggling and anti-corruption. Promote the coordination and linkage of all types of supervision, promote the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, and improve long-term mechanisms for inspection and rectification. In accordance with the requirements of improving the reform of the discipline inspection and supervision system of vertical management units, deepen the reform of the grassroots supervision system and mechanism of the customs. Improve the allocation of power and operational restraint mechanisms, and strengthen the construction of risk-oriented internal control mechanisms. Adhere to the party spirit, party style and party discipline, perseverance to implement the spirit of the eight provisions of the central government, improve the mechanism of promoting reform and governance by cases, strengthen the construction of a clean customs culture in the new era, and create a clean and positive political ecology.
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