China News Service, March 22. According to the website of the General Administration of Customs, on March 21, the General Administration of Customs took the lead in deploying special actions to promote cross-border trade facilitation in 2024 in 20 cities including Shenyang, Jinan, and Hefei to further create It is a demonstration highland for market-oriented, legalized and international first-class port business environment, making new contributions to promoting high-quality development and high-level opening up and assisting Chinese-style modernization.
The meeting emphasized that in recent years, relevant departments, units and local governments have taken special actions to facilitate cross-border trade as a starting point to continue to optimize the port business environment and make important efforts to consolidate the basic structure of my country's foreign trade and foreign investment and maintain its status as the largest country in goods trade. contribute. It is necessary to further enhance the sense of responsibility, mission, and urgency, fully understand the importance of carrying out special actions to promote cross-border trade facilitation, and promote the implementation of the 2024 Promoting Cross-border Trade Facilitation with higher standards, more practical measures, and greater intensity. Special actions and measures.
The meeting called for further improving the supply quality of policies and measures, comprehensively promoting the implementation of facilitation measures in the "border" link and "post-border" link at ports, improving the customs clearance efficiency and logistics efficiency of the entire import and export chain, and assisting China-Europe freight trains and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor. Waiting for the construction of international logistics channels. Adhere to mechanisms such as "customs commissioners deliver policies to their doorsteps", improve corporate credit management, fully release policy dividends, and further enhance business entities' sense of gain. Continuously expand the "single window" enterprise-related service functions, accelerate the improvement of the "one-stop" comprehensive service platform, strengthen the sharing and sharing of port facilities, equipment and data, promote the comprehensive performance evaluation of the port, improve the access and exit mechanism, and improve the quality of port development. We will do a solid job in welcoming the "International Trade" indicator in the World Bank's Business Environment Maturity Assessment. We will further strengthen joint port security prevention and control, promote cross-departmental law enforcement collaboration, improve port risk early warning, prevention and emergency response capabilities, and firmly guard the bottom line of preventing major and systemic risks.
Relevant leaders from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Hebei Province and representatives from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Administration for Market Regulation made speeches to exchange work status.