China News Service, Pingxiang, Guangxi, August 15th. Title:
(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Directly attacking the entry of ASEAN fruits into China: Closed-loop management has undergone "multiple tests"
China News Agency reporter Huang Yanmei Yang Zhixiong
Right now is the peak season for tropical fruits in Southeast Asia. In Pingxiang City, Guangxi, the largest port city on the Sino-Vietnamese border, ports such as Youyiguan and Puzhai are busy. The truck enters the territory of China from the port's dedicated freight channel.
The picture shows on August 5, in the cargo disinfection area of Jiangnan Agricultural Products Smart Trading Center in Pingxiang City, Guangxi, porters transfer imported pitaya from Vietnam.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Jing
Known as the "South Gate of China", Pingxiang borders one city and three counties in Vietnam. The border line is 97 kilometers long. It is the most convenient land route from China to Vietnam and even ASEAN countries. It is also the largest China-ASEAN fruit import and export trade. The port has ranked "China's No. 1" in fruit imports from ASEAN for many consecutive years.
At present, the global situation of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is developing rapidly, the virus has mutated, especially the delta virus has increased infectivity, and the pressure on foreign ports to prevent imports is increasing.
In the face of the severe epidemic situation, how to do a good job in port epidemic prevention and control, eliminate the hidden dangers of imported food safety in a timely manner, and ensure the safety of the people's "fruit basket"?
A reporter from China News Agency recently visited the front line of Pingxiang Port.
The Pingxiang Friendship Pass is the largest land port for China's trade with Vietnam, and the import and export volume of goods accounts for more than 60% of the border ports in Guangxi.
After the gate opened at 8 am, a busy day began here.
I saw that cross-border transport vehicles lined up in an orderly manner to enter the customs checkpoint. After the entire vehicle was sprayed and disinfected, the customs clearance procedures could be processed, and then it would enter the supervision area for inspection.
According to the introduction of the Commerce and Port Administration of Pingxiang City, Pingxiang City implements the "four designations" (designated freight yard, designated route, designated transfer vehicle and designated residence hotel) and "two 100%" (100% for driving and freight forwarding personnel). Vaccination and 100% nucleic acid testing every 3 days) to achieve closed-loop management at the port.
The city opened 8 designated cargo yards in an emergency as designated parking lots for outbound vehicles and designated transit and killing yards for inbound vehicles.
The picture shows on August 5, in the cargo disinfection area of Jiangnan Agricultural Products Smart Trading Center in Pingxiang City, Guangxi, porters transfer imported pitaya from Vietnam.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Jing
According to reports, Pingxiang City strictly implements "full control and no omissions" management of imported cold chain food, and implements a management model of port inspection and release, 100% elimination of cold chain supervision warehouses, and cargo yard release.
All imported cold-chain food vehicles entering the country will enter the centralized supervision warehouse for unified inspection, nucleic acid testing and disinfection. The goods are unloaded by workers wearing protective clothing onto the disinfection belt and sprayed through the machine through 360° atomization.
Only the cross-border fruits that have passed the "multiple tests" and passed the inspection can obtain the "health code", which is allowed to leave the warehouse and enter the markets in various parts of China.
China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone Chongzuo District Jiangnan Agricultural Products Smart Trading Center Park is located in Pingxiang Wantong Logistics Park. The first phase covers an area of 600 acres and is the largest cargo yard in Pingxiang City.
The Pingxiang branch of Guangxi Lvyuan Pest Control Co., Ltd. is one of the three disinfection companies reviewed and filed by the epidemic prevention headquarters in the trading center. Bi Xiaofei, the person in charge of the company, said: “It takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to kill a car of durians. This A few days are busy. We work every day from 8 am to 4 am, and the entire freight yard kills about 180 vehicles every day."
"The centralized supervision warehouse for imported cold chain food in our trading center was put into use under the authorization of the relevant department of the Pingxiang Municipal Government in January this year. As of the end of July, a total of 11,678 containers of imported cold chain food were imported from mangos, jackfruit, durian, dragon fruit, and mangosteen. Nucleic acid testing and sterilization were carried out, and no goods were found to be positive, and all were released from the warehouse. All imported cold chain vehicles that were sterilized were registered as required, and a vehicle-by-account file was established (attached) Disinfection certificate, nucleic acid test certificate, warehouse certificate, customs declaration form or Puzhai mutual market tax receipt) for traceability." said Hu Jinghui, manager of the market management department of Jiangnan Agricultural Products Smart Trading Center.
According to Hu Jinghui, the disinfection company kills the outdoor venue twice a day and the indoor venue four times a day in the supervision warehouse.
All employees who enter the supervision warehouse (including workers, killers, and stevedores) must be vaccinated with 2 doses of the new crown vaccine and have a nucleic acid test certificate (tested every 3 days) to enter the site and dress as required. Take personal protection.
According to the official Pingxiang City, the city's commerce, market supervision, transportation, health and other departments jointly supervise designated freight yards and cold chain supervision warehouses, and realize the "closeness" of cold chain supervision through "departmental linkage".
While doing a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic, Pingxiang City has taken various measures to promote the development of foreign trade to rise against the trend, and the cross-border fruit trade is still booming. According to statistics, the daily fruit throughput of the Pingxiang Fruit Trading Market is about 5,000 tons; in 2020, the import and export of fresh and dried fruits and nuts will be 7.58 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), and the import and export of fresh and dried fruits and nuts will be from January to June this year. 4.88 billion yuan. (Finish)