China News Service, Mudanjiang, November 9th (Wang Yu, reporter Jiang Hui) Dongning City, located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, is located in the center of the triangle junction between China, Russia and North Korea, and is an important window for China to open up to Russia.

On the 9th, the reporter learned from Dongning City that from January to September 2021, Dongning Port achieved a total import and export trade volume of 3.1 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 11.7%.

The staff conducts epidemic prevention inspections for import and export commodities.

Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Dongning Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China

  Since the beginning of this year, Dongning City has focused on “reform and opening up, optimizing the environment”, continuously optimizing the port business environment, enhancing the level of customs clearance, and continuing to deepen the reform of the policy of benefiting the enterprise and the people, polishing the new business card of “do not ask for people”.

Dongning City issued the "Notice on Optimizing the Business Environment at Dongning Port" to further optimize the customs clearance process, improve port clearance efficiency, reduce corporate investment and costs, and create the best business environment at Dongning Port.

Further sort out the costs of transportation links such as inspection, disinfection, loading and unloading at Dongning Port, promote the reform of tax collection and management, and implement the "collective taxation + tariff guarantee insurance" model to relieve financial pressure for enterprises.

At the same time, it implements the “no-person meeting” requirement for port cargo inspection to improve the efficiency of port administrative services.

As a transportation channel for epidemic prevention materials to Russia, Dongning will import nearly 45 million yuan in epidemic prevention materials and export nearly 1.4 billion yuan in epidemic prevention materials in 2020, making positive contributions to domestic and foreign epidemic prevention and control.

The staff checks the vehicle clearance procedures.

Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Dongning Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China

  Dongning City closely follows the "six stability" and "six guarantees", sorts out the prevention and control process, and adjusts the prevention and control measures.

By improving the level of scientific prevention and control, establishing an efficient port prevention and control process, extending the opening and closing time, and reducing the time for customs clearance, the number of customs clearance vehicles has been increased from 50 vehicles per day to about 120 vehicles.

Fully implement the "multi-certificate integration" and implement the "self-report and self-pay" customs clearance model.

Customs clearance of goods realizes "one declaration, one inspection, one release", import and export enterprises realize independent filing, independent declaration, and independent tax payment, and the release of export goods realizes "second level". The whole process can be completed in one minute at the shortest.

At the same time, it solves the problem of the efficiency of customs clearance of imported bulk goods, and realizes that the customs clearance time of bulk imported goods such as coal and soybeans has been shortened from the original maximum of 7 days to about 4 hours. The green channel for exporting fruits and vegetables, imported edible aquatic animals and other agricultural products has been opened. With regard to the comprehensive customs clearance facilitation measures, the customs clearance time has been reduced by more than 80% through nearly three years of hard work.

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