At a press conference held in the Guangzhou Municipal Press Conference Hall, Guangzhou Customs released 48 detailed measures to support the "Guangzhou Nansha Overall Plan for Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao facing the World" (hereinafter referred to as the "Nansha Plan"), focusing on promoting the Greater Bay Area. Guangzhou Nansha supports Guangzhou Nansha in deepening comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, including facilitating the flow of district elements, supporting the construction of key projects, supporting the construction of a comprehensive service base for Chinese enterprises to "go global", and strengthening the connection of rules among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou Customs said that they will strengthen coordination in terms of promoting scientific and technological intelligent supervision, promoting physical development projects, and serving the rapid development of new business formats in Nansha, and further leverage the role of the Nansha Pilot Free Trade Zone as a "test field" for expanding opening up and the policy and functional advantages of the Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone. .
Model innovation: Helping elements flow efficiently and conveniently,
"Nansha, Guangzhou is an important development area for Guangzhou's foreign trade, accounting for about a quarter of Guangzhou's total foreign trade." Tang Qinglin, director of the Guangzhou Customs General Department, gave a set of data at the meeting: In 2021, the total foreign trade import and export value of Nansha is 260.03 billion yuan. , a year-on-year growth of 14.7%, achieving 9 consecutive years of positive growth.
As an important foreign trade hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Nansha has become an important node linking the world. Promoting the efficient and convenient flow of various elements such as people and goods and improving the level of market integration in the Greater Bay Area are the essence of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Tang Qinglin said: "This time, Guangzhou Customs is based on Nansha to enhance its function as an international shipping and logistics hub, and has introduced 19 detailed service measures for scientific research materials, port logistics, China-Europe freight trains, personnel exchanges, and distribution center construction."
Chen Zhen, deputy director of Guangzhou Customs, introduced at the press conference that focusing on the key of "efficient and convenient flow of elements", Guangzhou Customs has accurately grasped the positioning of Nansha as an important hub connecting the "Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao" science and technology innovation corridor and supported the development of The "Positive List of Cross-border Scientific Research Materials" and the "White List" system for the import of biomedical research and development materials are piloted to support various scientific and technological innovation entities that meet the tax exemption qualifications to enjoy the import tax policy that supports scientific and technological innovation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and replicate and promote it. Facilitate measures for the quarantine and supervision of cross-border animal-derived biological materials to promote the free flow of cross-border scientific research materials. Customs clearance will be facilitated for inbound and outbound scientific researchers and their luggage who enjoy the treatment of national high-level overseas students and overseas scientific and technological experts.
Nansha Customs, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Customs, teamed up with local government departments to conduct an on-site investigation on difficult issues related to the import of scientific research equipment, and formulated a tailor-made application plan for preferential qualifications, helping the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) to successfully be included in the second batch of higher education institutions enjoying the "14th Five-Year Plan" science and technology innovation policy. list, helping it complete the customs tax reduction and exemption review and confirmation procedures in less than one working day when importing scientific research equipment, and received tax reductions and exemptions of more than 1.5 million yuan.
In 2021, the number of companies registered with the customs in the Nansha Pilot Free Trade Zone reached 5,638, which is 5.9 times that when the Nansha Free Trade Zone was first launched. At present, the Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone has built the largest distribution center for engineering plastic pellets in the Asia-Pacific region, and distribution centers for bonded medicines, food and wine, and automobile exhibitions and trade are also becoming increasingly mature. From January to August 2022, the import and export of bonded logistics goods in Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone was approximately 15.95 billion yuan.
Among the 48 detailed measures issued by Guangzhou Customs this time, they closely focus on key projects such as cross-border e-commerce business, "bonded +" business, and automobile industry chain, continue to optimize customs supervision services, and assist the construction and development of key projects. In terms of supporting the development of cross-border e-commerce business, we will continue to deepen the application of "co-contracting" measures for cross-border e-commerce retail export returns, and support qualified enterprises in Nansha to develop cross-border e-commerce retail import returns central warehouse business. Accelerate the registration of enterprises exporting overseas warehouses, implement "registration in one place, applicable nationwide", and support the development of cross-border e-commerce enterprises' export overseas warehouse business. Cooperate with the local government to launch a pilot policy for the cross-border e-commerce import of OTC drugs from Hong Kong and Macao in Nansha.
"In addition, the customs will also innovate supervision methods to promote the clustering of characteristic industries in Nansha." Deng Tao, deputy director of Nansha Customs, gave examples. For example, it will support the development of bonded delivery business of bulk commodity futures such as agricultural products, chemicals, and industrial silicon; release the invoice for international sailing ships; The fuel oil export tax rebate policy provides dividends, supports qualified enterprises to carry out bonded oil direct supply business in the province, and promotes the development of bonded storage of cultural relics and cultural artworks, and bonded display out of the zone.
Since the beginning of this year, Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone’s foreign trade report card has frequently highlighted highlights. In the first eight months, the import and export value reached 69.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37.7%, and the number of active enterprises increased by 15.56% year-on-year. In the recent comprehensive bonded zone development performance evaluation results released by the General Administration of Customs, the comprehensive ranking of Nansha Comprehensive Bonded Zone was upgraded to the highest level, Category A.
Rule connection innovation: Promote optimization of business environment and strengthen international economic cooperation
In the latest national business environment assessment, Nansha's cross-border trade indicators ranked first among the 18 national-level new zones in the country. Chen Zhen said that in order to support Nansha to better build a new highland for opening up to the outside world and build a comprehensive service base for Chinese enterprises to "go global", Guangzhou Customs has implemented a facilitated customs clearance management model, supported the construction and operation of global humanitarian warehouses and hubs, and supported Nansha's exploration of hosting Important international forums and exhibition activities; support Nansha's high-quality implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) to help enterprises enjoy benefits; support the construction of a comprehensive service system, continue to strengthen the construction of precise service capabilities for technical trade measures, and promote the construction of technical trade measures Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research and Evaluation Base.
In the first nine months of this year, there were a total of 8 approved exporters recognized by Nansha Customs. Approved exporters independently issued 137 RCEP declarations of origin with a value of 72.86 million yuan; goods imported and exported from RCEP member states through Nansha amounted to 53.8 billion yuan. Yuan, accounting for 35% of Nansha’s import and export trade.
"The docking of rules connection mechanisms is one of the key and difficult points in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The "Nansha Plan" proposes to 'create a highland for the connection of rules connection mechanisms', which will further stimulate the innovation momentum of Guangzhou Nansha." Chen Zhen said that Guangzhou Customs is based on Nansha’s positioning advantages for comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao continue to strengthen the connection and innovation of rules, promote the optimization of the business environment, support the pilot implementation of acceptance of some legal inspection commodities other than agricultural products and food in Nansha, and support the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for clinically urgently needed drugs, It facilitates customs clearance of medical devices while practicing the "Three Wisdoms" concept, strengthening international customs cooperation, and promoting the implementation of electronic certificate cooperation arrangements with Hong Kong, and implementing electronic certificate data transmission for veterinary health certificates of poultry, pork and other meat products supplied to Hong Kong from the mainland.
