Read Chuang/Shenzhen Business Daily reporter Yao Jiali in Guangzhou Correspondent Chen Lin Xie Yue

The reporter learned from the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs on April 19 that in the eight years since the establishment of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, the customs in Guangdong Province have focused on smoothing the logistics channels in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promoting the development of new trade formats, and implementing smart supervision. , to support the high-quality development of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone. In 2022, the province's pilot free trade zone will achieve a total import and export value of 535.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.8%, and its proportion in the province's foreign trade will steadily increase.

Shekou Customs officers supervise the vehicles allocated by Shenzhen Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone. Photo courtesy of the correspondent

Construct a three-dimensional trade hub of "sea, land, air and railway"

based in the Nansha area of Guangzhou, the Customs continues to promote the "One Port in the Bay Area" customs clearance model, and realizes the rapid flow of goods between the Nansha hub port and the inland river terminal in the Pearl River Basin through water transport. Give full play to the advantages of Nansha’s port-side industry, support the airports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to share an international cargo center, and unblock the logistics between Nansha Port and Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen airports. Promote the construction of Nansha Port Railway Station, open up the connection between the inland railway station and the port, further improve the development level of Nansha Port Area's collection and distribution and port-side industries, and help build a "sea and land port" centered on Guangzhou Nansha and radiating the entire Pan-Pearl River Delta region. Air Rail" three-dimensional trade hub.

At the same time, relying on the Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the customs pioneered the implementation of a "one-stop" supervision model for cross-border e-commerce export returns, allowing companies to return export e-commerce returned goods to the comprehensive bonded zone, and complete unpacking and distribution in one stop in the warehouse. Picking, storage, re-export and other businesses to solve the difficulties and pain points of cross-border e-commerce export returns. Promote the cross-border e-commerce retail import return central warehouse model, and promote the vigorous development of new cross-border e-commerce formats. In 2022, the import and export of cross-border e-commerce parcels at Nansha Port in Guangzhou will exceed 100 billion yuan for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 3.3 times.

In the Qianhai area, the customs supported the construction of the Qianhai Service Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Airport Group, and landed the country's first domestic airport cargo front-end security checkpoint, using "cross-border fast customs clearance" and "non-intrusive inspection" to facilitate customs clearance. Supporting enterprises to pre-locate cargo booking, cargo collection, distribution and other links in Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone can save nearly 30% of logistics costs for enterprises. By the end of 2022, a total of 140,000 tons of goods worth 74.7 billion yuan have been sent to major airports in the Greater Bay Area through Qianhai, reaching the world.

Hengqin Customs helps the electronic information industry in the bonded area to smooth domestic and international "dual cycles". Photo by Xu Mengchao.

Hengqin is adjacent to Macau. The Customs is actively promoting the development of the "integrated" logistics of Qin and Macau, giving full play to the advantages of storage resources in the Hengqin area, supporting enterprises to undertake the radiation transfer of Macau's logistics industry, and providing warehousing, logistics and distribution services for Macau, effectively alleviating the storage resources of Macau. tension, high storage costs and other issues. The Customs has implemented the "Innovation in Inspection and Quarantine Supervision of imported Temporary Storage of Foods Transited in Macao". For the food sold in Macao with "two ends outside" in transit, the Customs will no longer force the food to come from overseas registered production enterprises under the condition of ensuring that the quarantine requirements are met. With the certificate issued by the Macau government, it is allowed to enter the cooperation zone for storage and distribution, and the goods temporarily stored in Hengqin can be delivered to Macau consumers within 24 hours. Since the implementation, 1,368 tons of food have been temporarily stored in the country and returned to Macau in batches.

Regional joint development of aircraft financial leasing business

In Nansha, Qianhai and Hengqin, the Customs explored and implemented a new model of mobile remote supervision, and implemented the innovative measure of "imported prepackaged food labeling technology rectification and mobile remote supervision" to meet the needs of enterprises to enter the market quickly. In 2022, more than 70 mobile remote supervision operations will be carried out in Nansha, and the efficiency of customs supervision will be improved by 30%.

Qianhai Shekou Mawan Port has fully applied remote 5G smart quarantine equipment to implement boarding and quarantine, improving the flow efficiency of inbound and outbound ships and port operation efficiency, and opening up the "microcirculation" of port logistics. The implementation of collaborative innovations such as "barge cross-port transfer + checkpoint release" has helped Mawan Smart Port's container throughput exceed 1 million TEUs in one year after its opening.

Through cooperation with Macau’s regulatory authorities, we will implement convenient customs clearance measures for qualified food manufactured in Macau, and those that need to be inspected or sampled for inspection will be given priority for inspection and sampling, and there is no need to wait for laboratory test results. Release, realize the "second-speed" customs clearance of goods, and greatly reduce the cost of enterprises. At present, 24 kinds of Macao foods in 6 categories including biscuits, pastries, moon cakes, candies and beverages have implemented this measure. Since the implementation, a total of 152 tons of Macao traditional foods with a value of 21.02 million yuan have been conveniently sold to the mainland.

Inspectors handle food samples. Photo by Yu Bo

Support Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Shenzhen Baoan Airport to jointly carry out aircraft financial leasing business. Guangzhou Customs adopts the method of "registered enterprises in Nansha, supervised by the airport in different places" to support enterprises in the Nansha area to enjoy the dividends of fiscal and tax policies. In 2022, 11 aircraft will be introduced through bonded financial leasing, with a value of 5.559 billion yuan. Shenzhen Customs carried out the first-invoice bonded financial leasing aircraft business in the Qianhai area through entrusted supervision in different places. In 2022, the value of aircraft bonded financial leasing will be 898 million yuan.