China News Service, July 30. Chen Jie, spokesperson for the National Immigration Administration and Director of the Department of Policies and Regulations, introduced on the 30th that in the first half of the year, 8,419 criminal cases of obstructing national (border) border management were established, and more than 21,000 criminal suspects were arrested. People, up 220% and 271% year-on-year respectively.
The National Immigration Administration held a press conference on the 30th.
At the meeting, Chen Jie reported the main data and work effectiveness of immigration management in the first half of the year.
According to Chen Jie, from January to June, a total of 66.973 million entry-exit persons were inspected at ports across the country; 7.527 million entry-exit transportation vehicles were inspected, of which 111,000 were cargo aircraft, compared with 2019 and 2020. Increases by 189.5 percent and 35% respectively; 1.24 million entry and exit permits for inland residents were processed, 3.179 million visas for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were processed, and 380,000 residence permits were issued for foreigners in China.
Chen Jie pointed out that the above data fully demonstrates that under the premise of serious efforts to normalize the epidemic prevention and control and strictly prevent the import of overseas epidemics, the immigration management agency has given full play to its functional role, which has effectively ensured the continued safe and orderly conduct of Sino-foreign exchanges and actively served. Build a new development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycles mutually promoting each other.
In terms of deepening the fight against the epidemic and strictly preventing the importation of overseas epidemics, Chen Jie said that the National Immigration Administration has always put foreign importation prevention as the top priority of its work. The first is strict border control.
Adhere to border and front-line solid defenses, vigorously promote the construction of border management and control systems, add border police offices, public security duty points, and second-line investigation points at the frontier of the border, promote the formation of mass defense organizations, and fully implement border control measures to effectively prevent People illegally cross the border and illegally flow into channels.
The second is to dynamically adjust the immigration policy.
Adhere to non-emergency and non-essential non-exit, strictly examine and approve the issuance of entry and exit documents for mainland residents. In the first half of the year, a total of 335,000 ordinary passports were issued across the country. The main reasons were studying abroad, employment and business. The number of issuances was only 2% of the same period in 2019.
At the same time, suspend visas and visa exemptions for entry and transit of foreign high school risk-level nationals; strictly implement the "passenger and cargo pass" policy at land ports, implement special inspections and releases for incoming cargo planes, and implement non-disclosure of ships and their crews in key countries involved in the epidemic. Measures of "no boarding, no landing, no landing" are necessary to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention.
The third is to strengthen joint prevention and control with all localities and departments.
Intensify big data early warning, promptly notify the customs, health departments, and territorial joint prevention and control mechanisms of personnel in high-risk areas. The relevant parties verified 4,586 confirmed and suspected cases and 343,000 close contacts, which effectively served the overall situation of the country’s fight against the epidemic. .
In terms of in-depth promotion of the reform of "delegation, control, and service" in immigration management, and proactive services to build a new development pattern, Chen Jie pointed out that the National Immigration Administration earnestly organized and carried out "I do practical things for the masses" activities. The first is to help enterprises resume work and production and local governments. Economic development, the introduction of 16 policy measures to serve the development of shipping companies, to replicate and promote the ten facilitation measures for the construction of shipping hubs in the Yangtze River Delta to sea ports and ports across the country, and to promote the implementation of the "cooperative inspection, one-time release" side inspection model at the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao land ports .
At the same time, deepen the promotion of fee reductions to benefit the people, promote the cancellation of ordinary passport refill fees, and implement free entry and exit passes for three categories of people, including Hong Kong, Macao, and mainland fishermen.
The second is to facilitate the people to apply for certificates, implement 6 measures to facilitate the elderly to apply for entry and exit certificates, and provide convenient services such as "green channels" for the application of certificates and exemption from online pre-applications for elderly applicants.
Vigorously promote the facilitation application of entry and exit documents and the intelligent and facilitation of government services. The 12367 service platform has been launched to provide multilingual immigration management policy consultation and answers for Chinese and foreign personnel 24 hours a day. The first call resolution rate has reached 99.5%, which has effectively increased the satisfaction of the people. Degree and happiness, sense of gain.
In addition, in severely cracking down on cross-border crimes and striving to maintain national security and border stability, the maintenance of political security has always been the top priority, and the infiltration and sabotage activities of hostile forces at home and abroad are strictly prevented and severely cracked down.
Immigration management agencies at all levels resolutely investigate and punish all types of illegal crimes through strict border frontline investigations, strict border jurisdiction management and control, and strengthened investigations and cases.
Chen Jie said that in the first half of the year, a total of 8,419 criminal cases of obstructing national (frontier) border management were established, and more than 21,000 criminal suspects were arrested, an increase of 220% and 271% year-on-year respectively; 31,000 foreigners from the "three Africans" were seized and seized. More than 85,000 illegal entry and exit persons; 578 drug cases were cracked, 5.63 tons of various drugs and 352.25 tons of precursor chemicals were seized, 40 drug abuse and trafficking dens were destroyed; 1,430 guns of various types were seized; a large number of smuggling cases were seized It effectively protected the safety of people’s lives and property, and effectively maintained the stability of national security border ports.