According to the website information of the General Administration of Customs, on the afternoon of February 23, Ni Yuefeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the General Administration of Customs, presided over an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee of the General Administration of Customs. The meeting requested that we should not relax our efforts to prevent and control the epidemic. The national customs should pay close attention to the changing situation of the epidemic situation, adhere to the bottom-line thinking, maintain high vigilance, make full preparations, adjust the prevention and control strategies in a timely manner, scientifically prevent and control, and implement precise measures to effectively strengthen the national quarantine defense lines and resolutely prevent the epidemic from spreading through ports; Relevant local governments have stepped up their efforts to crack down on wildlife smuggling; continue to do a good job in safeguarding customs clearance services for epidemic prevention and control materials, which must pass quickly and ensure quality and safety, and help win the people's war, general war, and obstruction warfare for epidemic prevention and control.
The meeting emphasized the need to make every effort to implement the measures to promote stable growth in foreign trade. We will earnestly implement the requirements for the deployment of foreign trade and foreign investment that are stable at the meeting, study detailed measures based on the actual situation of the work, promptly organize and promote the implementation, and ensure that the relevant decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee are implemented at the Customs and implemented as soon as possible. It is necessary to conscientiously organize and implement the ten measures issued by the General Administration to deal with the impact of the epidemic and promote the steady growth of foreign trade, and continue to study and introduce special support measures in related fields.
The meeting requested that vigorous efforts be made to streamline customs clearance procedures, reduce inspection and quarantine expenses, continue to promote the clearance and regulation of port-related enterprise charges, and optimize the port's business environment. We will further support the expansion of imports and exports, speed up the negotiation of market access for food and agricultural products, promote the equal opening of the market, promote the domestic market to maintain stable prices, and maintain international market share.
The General Administration of Customs stated that the customs across the country must act quickly to further emancipate their minds, forge ahead with reforms and bold innovations, focus on the actual difficulties and problems encountered by enterprises, and work hard to make effective efforts to continuously enhance their sense of gain. To help enterprises overcome difficulties, strive to reduce the impact of the epidemic on foreign trade, in order to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development throughout the year, to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and to fight poverty alleviation, and complete the "Thirteenth Five-Year" plan contribution.
It is worth noting that since the outbreak, the illegal trafficking and consumption of wild animals has once again caused great concern. On February 7, the international top academic journal "The Lancet" published a review from Chinese scholars: "Game consumption and the 2019 novel coronavirus". Reviews suggest that Chinese folk obsession with the philosophy of food and medicine homology, and the imagination of medical effects on wild animals, may cause viruses in nature to infect humans.
In addition, on February 7, South China Agricultural University, Lingnan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Guangdong Province Professor Shen Yongyi, Xiao Lihua and other scientific researchers jointly announced the latest research results with the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences and the Guangzhou Zoo Scientific Research Department: pangolin is a new crown Potential intermediate host of the virus. On February 18th, local time, the preprinted website bioRxiv published a paper "Identification of Coronavirus Related to Malay Pangolin 2019-nCoV in South China" again. New coronavirus-associated coronavirus was detected from two smuggled Malay pangolins.
Surging news reporter He Liping