Fully fulfill the duty and mission of guarding the country and promoting development
The important speech made by the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader at the Central Economic Work Conference is a classic example of coordinating the "two overall situations" and using "two combinations" to solve the new problems of Chinese modernization. It is the latest enrichment and expansion of the economic thought of the Supreme Leader, which provides a general basis and always follows for doing a good job in economic work throughout the year. The national customs will unify its thoughts and actions with the analysis, judgment and decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee on the situation, adhere to the principle of striving for progress while maintaining stability, establishing first and then breaking, earnestly study and understand, resolutely implement the various work arrangements made at the meeting, and go all out to do a good job in guarding the country and promoting development.
Deeply understand the great achievements made in China’s economic development, firmly support the "two establishment" and resolutely achieve the "two maintenance"
In the past year, in the face of the complicated situation in which various contradictions and challenges overlap, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core took the overall situation into consideration, worked for the overall situation, responded to the situation, broke the dilemma and made innovations, United and led the people of the whole country to achieve outstanding achievements in economic and social development in the first year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, continued to write a new chapter of "the scenery is unique here", and made solid progress in building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
On December 8, 2023, customs officers from Zhangjiagang, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, went to an automatic transmission manufacturer for field investigation.
Over the past year, China has firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development, and the endogenous power of economic growth has been continuously accumulated, and the momentum of innovation-driven development has been obvious, achieving effective improvement in economic quality and reasonable growth in quantity. From the perspective of foreign trade, in 2023, China withstood multiple pressures such as insufficient external demand and falling prices, and its position as the largest country in goods trade became more stable. China contributed 30% to world economic growth and remained the "engine" and "ballast stone" of global economic growth. The export product structure is more optimized. The export market share of lithium batteries and solar cells ranks first in the world, and the export share of electric manned vehicles ranks second in the world. The market is more diversified and stable, and the proportion of imports and exports to countries that have jointly built the "Belt and Road" has increased significantly. The dependence of grain and energy on foreign single-source markets is reduced, and the resilience and risk resistance of development are significantly enhanced. Recent enterprise surveys show that most key enterprises expect orders to grow or be flat, the confidence of foreign trade subjects is increasing, the favorable factors for foreign trade development are increasing, and the steady and good development trend continues to be consolidated.
Over the past year, the convergence of "stability" and "progress" in China’s economy has stimulated new kinetic energy, and the cycle of "inside" and "outside" has expanded new space, and the succession of "standing" and "breaking" has shaped a new pattern. China’s economic development has made great achievements, which lies in having the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the helm and the scientific guidance of the Supreme Leader Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. Practice has fully proved that "two establishment" is the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence and the greatest guarantee to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and deal with all uncertainties. The national customs will further deeply understand the decisive significance of "two establishment", further enhance the political consciousness of "two maintenance", and provide a fundamental political guarantee for completing the objectives and tasks this year.
Fully fulfill the mission of guarding the country and promoting development, and ensure that the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee are implemented in the customs system
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader attaches great importance to the customs work and places high hopes on it. In an important reply to all customs officers in Hongqilafu, he emphasized that "the customs is responsible for guarding the country and promoting development" and "should be a guardian of the country to reassure the party and satisfy the people". The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that we must adhere to the benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security. The national customs will strictly implement the four requirements of "grasping implementation", unequivocally guard the country, go all out to promote development, promote high-level security with high-quality development, and ensure high-quality development with high-level security.
Focus on consolidating the basic disk of foreign trade and foreign investment, and strive to optimize the port business environment. Strengthen the evaluation of the implementation effect of the 16 measures to optimize the business environment, make overall plans to grasp the time and effect, study the reserves, introduce more policies and measures with high gold content and strong sense of acquisition at the right time, and create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class port business environment. Cultivate new kinetic energy for foreign trade growth, promote comprehensive reform of cross-border e-commerce customs supervision, and improve cross-border e-commerce online shopping bonded supervision system and measures. Optimize the supervision of market procurement trade, improve the cooperative management mechanism, broaden the scope of bonded maintenance business, and support the healthy development of emerging formats such as bonded maintenance and remanufacturing.
Focus on the implementation of "two unwavering" and strive to boost the confidence of business entities. We will implement measures to reduce taxes and fees, make good use of long-term mechanisms to serve enterprises such as "sending policies to the door", help enterprises reduce costs and solve problems, ensure fair competition through fair supervision, and stimulate the endogenous motivation of various business entities. Expand the scope of mutual recognition and cooperation of "certified operators" (AEO), focus on cultivating the growth of "specialized and innovative" enterprises, strengthen the cultivation of advanced certified enterprises, implement preferential measures for AEO enterprises at home and abroad, and stimulate the endogenous motivation of business entities.
Focus on expanding domestic demand and focus on serving domestic supply and price stability. Support the development of new quality productivity, optimize the inspection and supervision mode, implement the tax reduction and exemption policy, support the import of advanced technologies, key components and important raw materials, and help the development of strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence and bio-manufacturing. Promote global value chain cooperation, support the cultivation of "chain owner" enterprises, promote the development of the whole industrial chain, and continue to expand the high-level opening up of manufacturing industry. We will ensure a stable and safe supply of food and energy resources, steadily promote market access for agricultural and food products, and open more "green channels" for rapid customs clearance of agricultural products. Promote the work mode of commodity inspection and acceptance, and support the stable supply and price of energy resources.
Focus on building the "Belt and Road" with high quality and focus on deepening international cooperation. Based on their responsibilities, we will implement eight actions to support the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", serve the diplomacy of the head of state with high quality, do a good job in the design and implementation of customs cooperation results, and deepen and jointly build national institutional cooperation. Strengthen port opening management, promote the construction of "smart ports", and improve port cargo handling capacity and traffic efficiency. Vigorously support the construction of landmark projects such as the China-Europe train and the new land and sea passage in the west, facilitate the cross-border flow of production factors, and smooth the domestic and international double cycle.
Focus on expanding high-level opening to the outside world and strive to promote institutional opening. Promote the implementation of the promotion strategy of the free trade pilot zone, introduce the customs supervision measures for Hainan Free Trade Port and Shenzhen Park in Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, accelerate the construction of the Shanghai Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone, continue to promote the in-depth cooperation between Hengqin, Guangdong and Macao, and promote the docking of international high-standard economic and trade rules. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, implement reform measures to promote the sustained and high-quality development of processing trade, and support the upgrading and orderly gradient transfer of processing trade.
Focus on regional coordinated development and focus on optimizing the allocation of customs resource elements. Expand and deepen the cooperation between the government and local authorities, serve the regional coordinated development strategy, study and launch a new round of policies and measures to support the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin and high-quality development, optimize the allocation of resource elements such as ports, special customs supervision areas and designated supervision sites, and improve the efficient and smooth customs clearance mechanism across customs areas. Support all localities to cultivate new advantages of opening up and new growth points of foreign trade development according to local conditions, and form an open pattern of linkage between the land and the sea and mutual assistance between the east and the west.
Focus on deepening the reform of key areas, and strive to promote the construction of smart customs and implement the action of "strengthening the country through smart customs". Relying on the "two-wheel drive" of reform and science and technology, we will improve our ability to defend the country and promote development, build the most competitive first-class customs supervision system and mechanism in the world, and promote high-quality development and high-level opening. Accelerate the development of domestic and foreign trade integration, promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade integration rules and systems, promote the docking of domestic and foreign trade market channels, optimize the development environment of domestic and foreign trade integration, deepen the comprehensive reform of high-quality development of comprehensive bonded zones, enhance the linkage effect of two markets and two resources, and improve the quality and level of international circulation.
Focus on coordinating high-quality development and high-level safety, and strive to prevent and resolve risks. We will build a strong national security line, improve and perfect the three lines of defense abroad, at ports and at home, effectively prevent the spread of major infectious diseases and prevent the invasion of alien species. Strengthen port infrastructure construction and improve the inspection efficiency of import and export dangerous goods. Resolutely safeguard the safety of the ecological environment, strengthen the inspection of imported goods related to environmental protection, and severely crack down on the smuggling of foreign garbage, endangered species and their products. Improve the whole chain supervision system, build a multi-dimensional integrated prevention and control mechanism in the whole process, prevent and resolve risks in key customs areas such as "stagnation, concealment, escape, fraud and harm", thoroughly implement the responsibility system for production safety, and resolutely hold the bottom line of no systematic risks.
On January 1, 2024, Mengding Customs officers affiliated to Kunming Customs inspected and released imported raw sugar cane at Dawanjiang Sugar Factory in Gengma Autonomous County, Yunnan Province.
Accelerate the construction of modern customs in Socialism with Chinese characteristics and promote Chinese modernization with customs modernization.
The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that promoting Chinese modernization must be regarded as the greatest politics. In order to better serve the Chinese-style modernization and comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation, the Party Committee of the General Administration of Customs, in accordance with the strategic plan made by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, has strengthened the top-level design, vigorously promoted the construction of smart customs and implemented the action of "strengthening the country through smart customs", served the "strength" of a strong country with the wisdom of customs, and promoted the Chinese-style modernization with customs modernization.
Build a modern customs system that is compatible with high-quality development and high-level safety. Adapt to the higher requirements of China’s ultra-large-scale import and export business volume and the rapid development of new formats and new models for effective customs supervision, speed up the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of customs, realize the transformation from traditional customs to smart customs, from regulatory customs to customs with customs services, and from big country customs to powerful country customs, fully safeguard national political security, economic security and national biological security, fully promote high-quality development, promote high-level openness, serve high-quality life, fully serve the diplomacy of big countries with China characteristics, and resolutely safeguard national interests.
Build an advanced and internationally competitive modern customs supervision mechanism. Scientifically allocate regulatory resources, build a scientific, standardized and smooth customs administrative law enforcement system, create a systematic, coordinated and efficient "response, echo, response" customs operation mechanism, create a full chain safety supervision model, achieve more accurate customs risk prevention and control, more efficient supervision operations, and more diverse supervision methods, continuously improve the ability and level of customs open supervision, achieve a high level of "control, release and communicate quickly", and resolutely safeguard the country.
Construct a modern customs science and technology support system with digital perception, intelligent analysis and automatic operation. Strengthen the empowerment of science and technology, widely apply digital and intelligent new technologies, and promote the construction of customs business operation system and technology support system as a whole. Through more comprehensive perception, more scientific decision-making, lower cost implementation, better service, more efficient supervision, more precise control and faster response, we will comprehensively build a safe, intelligent, open and shared new ecosystem of customs science and technology application, and realize the coordination of customs’ ears, eyes and limbs.
Forging high-quality modern customs cadres who are loyal and clean. Consolidate, expand, study and implement the educational achievements of the Supreme Leader’s theme of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, constantly improve political acumen, cultivate loyalty through deep learning and careful understanding, and interpret loyalty through practical actions, so as to build a contingent of customs cadres who are politically competent and can shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation. Taking the promotion of "realistic, solid and simple" customs culture as the starting point, we will raise the level of seeking truth from facts, gather the solid kinetic energy of work, forge the quality of simple style, and constantly strengthen the ideological tempering, style experience and character training of party member cadres. Comprehensively enhance cadres’ ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, prevent and resolve risks, continue to promote the cultivation of cadres’ fighting spirit and fighting skills, and constantly improve their ability to prevent risks, meet challenges and resist repression. Promote the "three non-corruptions" and build a clean customs.
Even if the clouds fly, there is no fear of hardships. Guided by the supreme leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, the national customs will profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", constantly enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences" and achieve the "two maintenance", accurately grasp the overall requirements and policy orientation of economic work throughout the year, do its best according to the needs of the country, push forward all work with a more energetic spirit, consolidate and strengthen the economic recovery, and build a strong country.