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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, February 3 (Xinhua) — As the traditional Chinese Spring Festival (Chinese Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year) approaches, trucks loaded with frozen aquatic products imported from Russia are leaving the border trade zone of Tongjiang City for inland China. This is a striking illustration of the revitalization of trade between residents of the border areas of this city, which borders the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia across the Heilongjiang (Amur) River.
According to customs data, last year's trade volume between residents of border areas in Tongjiang City (Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China) reached 927.95 tons, or 9.78 million yuan (approximately $1.41 million) in value. Both figures jumped 285.8 percent and 258.6 percent year-on-year, respectively, and reached new historical highs, the online news portal chinanews.com.cn reported, noting that Tongjiang's border trade has become a powerful driver of regional economic development.
The successes achieved are due to a number of effective measures. In particular, under the leadership of the local customs service in Tongjiang, a cooperative was established. This synergized the efforts of border residents involved in cross-border trade to organize the import of packaged food products and aquatic products from Russia. This significantly improved the efficiency of customs clearance and increased the income of local importers.
The Customs Service, for its part, is actively implementing an innovative model for monitoring border trade using digital technologies to optimize customs procedures, while also implementing a highly efficient "brought and inspected, inspected and cleared" approach for imported goods. At the same time, the list of goods permitted for import has been expanded from the initial list of frozen aquatic products and flour to seven items, including honey, baked goods, and salted aquatic products.
"Border trade, on the one hand, is linked to the state strategy of expanding external opening-up, and on the other, it is related to increasing the income of local residents. This defines our mission as both reliable guardians of the state gate and conscientious assistants to local merchants," summarized Wang Yubo, head of the Border Trade Supervision Department at Tongjiang Customs. -0-
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