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General Administration of Customs: This year, we will focus on building a smart customs to promote modern customs reform. According to the report of China Central Radio and Television, China is the world's largest trading country in goods. With a large scale of trade, multiple forms of trade, high regulatory requirements, and high security pressure, how can we achieve "manageable, open, and fast access"? At a series of theme press conferences on the morning of the 20th, held by the Information Office of the State Council, Yu Jianhua, Director of the General Administration of Customs, said that this year, he would take the construction of smart customs as a starting point to promote the reform of modern customs and serve high-quality development and high-level opening.

General Administration of Customs: This year, we will focus on building a smart customs to promote modern customs reform. Guarding the national gate is the basic responsibility of the customs. As China opens the door to the outside world, the responsibility of the customs to guard the national gate becomes greater and greater. Yu Jianhua, Director of the General Administration of Customs, introduced that in 2022, the national customs conducted scientific supervision according to law, using high-tech means such as big data and intelligent map review to improve the efficiency of port inspection and taxation, and ensure the safe and orderly import and export of goods.

General Administration of Customs: This year, we will focus on building a smart customs to promote modern customs reform. "In 2022, customs revenue warehousing reached 2.28 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.6%. Strict inspection and quarantine controls were implemented, and a total of 580000 species of harmful organisms were detected. More than 4500 smuggling criminal cases were filed and investigated, with a value of more than 120 billion yuan. National security and business environment were maintained," Yu Jianhua said.

General Administration of Customs: This year, we will focus on building a smart customs to promote modern customs reform. In 2022, China's total foreign trade value exceeded 42 trillion yuan. Yu Jianhua said that this scale is unprecedented in the history of human trade, and the pressure on a country's customs supervision is also unprecedented.

"Last year, the national customs supervised the import and export cargo volume of 4.8 billion tons, 13 million freighters, planes, trains and other means of transport (planes, ships), and 320 million cross-border express mail. If our import and export goods were loaded onto trains last year, they could circle the earth's equator 30 times head to tail. If the containers we supervised last year were connected together, they could form two rows between the earth and the moon," Yu Jianhua said.

The scale of trade is only one aspect. China has many forms of trade, high regulatory requirements, and high security pressure. How can customs supervision achieve "manageable, open, and fast access"? Yu Jianhua said that this year, we will vigorously promote the construction of smart customs, take smart customs as a starting point to promote modern customs reform, and build a world-class customs that leads the trend of international customs supervision and serves China's high-quality development.

"Realize the digitization, automation, and intelligence of customs clearance and management, continuously improve regulatory efficiency; strengthen the three defense lines of 'overseas, port, and domestic', build a customs operation mechanism of 'response, echo, and response', and create a comprehensive, full-chain regulatory system." Yu Jianhua said.