China News Service, Beijing, December 1st (Shen Bin, Su Dajiang, Xu Jing) With the advantages of Beijing's cultural resources and the location and policy advantages of the Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Area, the National Foreign Cultural Trade Base (Beijing) has become an important center for the country's foreign cultural trade. window.
At present, bonded artworks imported by the Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Area through the Capital Airport port account for nearly one-third of the country, and the number of cultural relics imported accounts for half of the country. Beijing has become the main port for the return of overseas cultural relics.
Recently, at the National Foreign Cultural Trade Base (Beijing) located in Beijing Tianzhu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, customs officials of Tianzhu Customs affiliated to Beijing Customs are reviewing the "Julian Opie Solo Exhibition", "See you around the corner! 2022 Artistic Youth Award" and other exhibitions. Exhibits are supervised on site.
It is understood that these exhibits cover many precious cultural relics and works of art from internationally renowned art solo exhibitions and artist group exhibitions.
"Since our company entered the Tianzhu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, the customs has dispatched special personnel to provide 24-hour fast customs clearance services and entry supervision. It has also taken the lead in coordinating multiple departments to implement full-chain services such as artwork entry exhibitions and cultural relics identification, which has expanded our business. The scale of operation and the saving of operating costs have brought great help." Deng Xiaohong, chairman of Beijing Boled Culture Group Co., Ltd., said in front of the showcase.
The picture shows Tianzhu Customs officers conducting on-site supervision of artworks entering the zone.
Photo by Ma Yilin
Talking about the development of the National Foreign Cultural Trade Base (Beijing), Lu Haihong, Chairman of Beijing Wentou International Holdings Co., Ltd., introduced that with the support of various customs policies and measures, the base has been in operation for seven years, and more than 500 exhibitors have exhibited in the base. There are more than 120 important exhibitions and activities such as the "International Cultural Relics and Artworks Expo" and "International Art Trade Forum", with about 10,000 pieces of cultural relics and artworks exhibited, with a total value of 15 billion yuan, releasing tens of millions of yuan in capital costs for enterprises.
The large-scale exhibition of overseas cultural relics benefits from the bonded policy of the comprehensive bonded area - overseas collections are exhibited in the comprehensive bonded area, and there is no need to pay a lot of taxes and deposits, which greatly reduces the cost of exhibition.
According to reports, the Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone is seamlessly connected to the Capital Airport port, and it only takes 15 minutes for exhibits to be picked up from the Capital Airport to the exhibition hall in the zone.
At present, bonded artworks imported by the Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Area through the Capital Airport port account for nearly one-third of the country, and the number of cultural relics imported accounts for half of the country. main port.
"Combining the positioning and needs of the National Foreign Cultural Trade Base (Beijing), Tianzhu Customs has created three supporting cultural bonded services: 'in-area storage + out-of-area exhibition auction', 'in-area display + online transaction' and 'bonded display transaction' The customs supervision model of business development encourages the return of overseas cultural relics. In the first 10 months of 2022, Tianzhu Customs supervised a total of 2,370 imported cultural relics and cultural artworks, with a value of 94.3496 million US dollars." Hu Xu, director of Tianzhu Customs, introduced.
In addition, Beijing Customs also takes advantage of the policy advantages of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone. The cultural relics and artworks exhibited in the zone are exempted from submitting supervision certificates. On-site supervision and on-site appraisal of cultural relics help enterprises save guarantee funds while reducing work procedures, and greatly enhance the sense of gain for enterprises.
Combined with the national service industry expansion and opening-up comprehensive demonstration zone and the "two zones" policy superimposed dividends of the Beijing Free Trade Pilot Zone, Beijing Customs gives full play to the advantages of the customs special supervision area policy, simplifies the approval and supervision procedures for artworks in the comprehensive bonded area, and innovates in the development of customs and cultural relics. The department jointly supervises the admission and appraisal, establishes a "cloud management" art database with artificial intelligence and pattern recognition technology, and helps Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone lead the country in terms of openness and innovation in art trade, cultural relics return and other fields.
At present, the National Foreign Cultural Trade Base (Beijing) has a bonded art warehouse of more than 10,000 square meters, which also has the functions of docking with the customs WMS warehouse management system, 24-hour video surveillance and classified storage.
The base has introduced more than 20 domestic excellent cultural and trade enterprises, and has carried out intensive and international cultural product research and development, processing, display and other services, further releasing policy dividends.
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