Chongqing accelerates the construction of an international aviation hub - the import and export growth rate in the first eight months ranked first among the country's major aviation ports

Since the beginning of this year, the construction process of Chongqing’s international aviation hub has accelerated. In the first eight months, Chongqing Jiangbei Airport Customs, a subsidiary of Chongqing Customs, ensured the customs clearance of nearly 210,000 tons of import and export goods at Chongqing air ports, a year-on-year increase of 1.2 times, and the growth rate ranked first among major air ports in the country.

On the export side, cross-border e-commerce performed well. In the first eight months, Chongqing Jiangbei Airport Customs ensured that the volume of cross-border e-commerce retail export commodities reached 39,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.5 times. Leading companies such as Xiyin and Pinduoduo have increased their efforts to collect goods in Chongqing. In view of the characteristics of cross-border e-commerce retail export commodities of "small order, miscellaneous goods, and high frequency", the customs has deepened the application of smart supervision equipment and implemented convenient measures such as "pre-security inspection" and "airside direct access" to effectively improve the turnover efficiency of transit goods.

"The customs clearance time of each truck of goods is saved by an average of 2 to 3 hours, and the transfer cost is reduced by about 500 yuan." He Zhimao, the on-site person in charge of Chongqing Yuanchuanglai Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. said.

On the import side, fresh food categories have been further enriched, import sources have continued to expand, and imports of fresh durians from Thailand, Canadian lobsters, and live eels from Bangladesh have continued to grow. When it comes to the import of fresh products, Chongqing Jiangbei Airport Customs promotes differentiated supervision and combined sampling models for imported edible aquatic animals, and superimposes measures such as "advance declaration" and "two-stage access" to further reduce the frequency of sampling operations and improve the timeliness of customs clearance. At the same time, the airport department has joined forces to strengthen the "green channel + temperature-controlled cold storage" guarantee to achieve "inspection of fresh goods upon landing and lock-in freshness throughout the entire process."

Tan Yangbo, head of customs affairs at Chongqing Shenjing International Logistics Co., Ltd., said: "Now the costs of warehousing, temporary storage, and logistics for imported goods have dropped significantly, and the comprehensive operating costs have been reduced by 15%."

In the first eight months, Chongqing Jiangbei Airport Customs ensured the rapid customs clearance of more than 9,000 tons of fresh goods, an increase of nearly 9 times year-on-year. The relevant person in charge of the customs said that they will continue to deepen regulatory innovation, promote the port economy to leap from a "channel economy" to a "hub economy", let more "Made in Chongqing" go to the world, and allow more global high-quality goods to gather in the mountain city.