Source: Customs Release
The General Administration of Customs recently issued 12 key measures to serve the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and accelerate the construction of a new pattern of opening up of the Yellow River Basin that takes into account both internal and external, land and sea linkage, east-west mutual benefit, and multi-directional progress.
After the release of customs supervision, the containers of the China-Europe express train are lifted and separated from the SCO Demonstration Zone. Customs supports the cargo business and promotes the efficient and intensive operation of China-Europe express trains in the Yellow River Basin.
Key measures mainly include: jointly grasping great protection, coordinating the promotion of great governance, promoting the construction of logistics channels, helping the development of new trade formats, using free trade agreements to promote industrial development, promoting the import and export of characteristic products, building a solid national biosecurity quarantine defense line, strengthening joint prevention and control of risks, promoting joint data and information sharing, strengthening technical trade measures, giving full play to the advantages of customs laboratories, increasing the intensity of cracking down on smuggling of key sensitive commodities, establishing an integrated coordination mechanism, and strengthening organizational safeguards.
Customs officers inspect and release imported goods at Zaozhuang Inland Port. Customs promotes the efficient connection of sea-rail multimodal transport and promotes the construction of logistics channels in the Yellow River Basin.
In order to strengthen the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin, the Customs will jointly grasp the great protection, coordinate to promote the great governance, and solve the problems of the lack of water resources and fragile ecological resources of the Yellow River; establish a joint monitoring and control mechanism for the epidemic situation of animals and plants in the Yellow River Basin, build a solid national biosecurity quarantine defense line, prevent the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases and the invasion of alien species; increase the intensity of smuggling of key sensitive commodities such as "foreign garbage" and endangered species; strengthen joint risk prevention and control, and promote the development of risk control models for regional characteristic businesses. Rule refinement, practical application and joint prevention and control.
Customs officers investigate the development of market procurement business in garment enterprises. Customs supports the development of new trade formats such as market procurement in the Yellow River Basin region.
In order to serve the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, the Customs will promote the construction of logistics channels, promote the efficient connection of sea-rail multimodal transport, support the construction of bonded supervision sites in key logistics node cities of China-Europe express trains, support the group cargo business and the mixed transportation of domestic and foreign trade goods; give play to the radiation and driving role of international air cargo hubs, promote the development and growth of regional cross-border e-commerce, support the development of market procurement trade mode pilots and other new trade formats; strengthen the analysis and research of free trade agreement facilitation measures, and "target" for characteristic advantageous industries. Carry out tariff reduction policy promotion and origin technical services; promote the export of agricultural products, aquatic products, meat products and other characteristic products, support the import of comprehensive industry management equipment and modern agricultural technology equipment; build a monitoring mechanism for the operation of foreign trade in the Yellow River Basin, explore the establishment of a China-South Korea "single window" customs cooperation mechanism; support the creation of a research and evaluation base for technical trade measures and explore the establishment of a regional joint response mechanism; establish the Yellow River Basin Inspection and Testing Alliance to explore "testing in advance and mutual recognition of results" with Japan and South Korea and other countries.
In the Coordination Office for Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, customs officers monitor the customs logistics operations in the jurisdiction on the spot.
In order to promote the implementation of key measures, the General Administration of Customs has established a "11+1" inter-customs integration coordination mechanism led by Qingdao Customs, including 11 customs directly under the Yellow River Basin involved in the nine provinces and regions of the Yellow River Basin (Taiyuan, Hohhot, Manzhouli, Qingdao, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining and Yinchuan Customs) and Urumqi Customs involved in important passages in the western part of the Yellow River Basin, and set up a "Coordination Office for Customs Service ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin" at Qingdao Customs. Establish a joint rapid response mechanism for regional business anomalies, further strengthen regional customs cooperation, and fully serve the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.