Integration of Intelligent Painting, Reform, New Scenery, Empowering High Quality Development, New Journey

The Yangtze River Delta is one of the most dynamic, open, and innovative regions in China's economy. Since 2025, the five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region have deeply studied and implemented the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Symposium on Deepening the Development of Yangtze River Delta Integration, closely adhering to the core principles of "integration" and "high quality", using reform as the pen and wisdom as the ink, innovatively creating a "smart+Yangtze River Delta" brand matrix, constructing a comprehensive, multi-level, and efficient customs supervision and service system, and injecting strong customs momentum into the high-quality development of Yangtze River Delta integration.
Data witnesses effectiveness, openness showcases vitality. In the first 10 months of 2025, one city and three provinces (Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui) in the Yangtze River Delta region completed a total import and export of 14 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.0%, accounting for 37.5% of the country's total import and export value, an increase of 0.8 percentage points compared to last year, and delivered an impressive answer in the complex and ever-changing international economic and trade environment. Behind the heavy data is the vivid practice of five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region deepening supervision, collaborative innovation, and serving the national regional coordinated development strategy.
Intelligent connection in the Yangtze River Delta: weaving a dense logistics network to facilitate internal and external circulation
Logistics is the "main artery" of economic circulation, and also the "lifeline" of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. The five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region focus on interconnectivity, innovate logistics supervision models, and help build a modern logistics channel system of "water water direct connection, air land linkage, and multimodal transport", making the flow of goods more efficient and trade more convenient.
Upgrading water transportation linkage and creating a golden channel for port coordination
The linkage unloading 1.0 version of "water water direct connection, multi port interaction, inland river connection, and Yangshan loading and unloading" is extending towards a wider inland hinterland. Since the beginning of this year, Shanghai Customs, together with Nanjing and Hangzhou Customs, has promoted the expansion of this innovative model to Jiangsu Tonghai Port, Lvsi Port, and Zhejiang Haining Port. Currently, it covers 15 ports in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi provinces, forming an integrated operation pattern of "hub port leading, branch port coordinating, and inland port supporting". By the first 10 months of 2025, this model has cumulatively completed imports and exports of 420000 TEUs, effectively reducing logistics costs for enterprises and enhancing the overall competitiveness of the Yangtze River Delta port cluster.
Between Yangshan Port and Taicang Port, the more technologically advanced Joint Unloading 2.0 version is accelerating its implementation. Through the innovative mechanism of "data networking and multi customs interaction", the flow of goods between different ports is made smoother.
Innovation in pre air transportation, building cross domain service air corridors
Previously, goods had to be transported to Shanghai Airport for export. Now, customs clearance, inspection and other procedures can be completed at the Suzhou pre cargo station, which not only saves transportation time but also reduces storage costs. It's really convenient! "The person in charge of an electronics company in Suzhou expressed the real convenience brought by cross provincial and municipal aviation pre cargo stations.
Shanghai and Nanjing Customs jointly innovate and build the first cross provincial and municipal aviation pre cargo station in China, the "Shanghai Airport Suzhou Pre cargo Station". This mode "moves forward" the customs supervision service. Enterprises can complete customs inspection in Suzhou Industrial Park. Under the full intelligent monitoring of the customs supervision platform, goods can be loaded and shipped directly to Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The overall logistics time is 12-24 hours less than the conventional customs clearance mode. At the same time, intensive transportation can be carried out through specialized civil aviation vehicles, which can also save 10% -30% of enterprise costs. Since its official launch in April this year, about 300 shipments worth $11 million have been exported to 32 countries and regions around the world through this front-end cargo terminal.
Multimodal transportation expansion, opening up multiple paths for overseas channels
Faced with the new changes in the international trade pattern, the five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region have taken the initiative to meet market demand, launched various transportation methods, and provided more flexible transportation options for enterprises. Ningbo Customs opened up a new logistics channel of "Sea Railway Express+Middle East Express", combined the stability of sea railway combined transport with the timeliness of international express, and provided an efficient transport solution for the "the Belt and Road" trade. On September 22nd, the customs assisted Ningbo Zhoushan Port in extending its fast shipping route to the Arctic Ocean, successfully opening the world's first China Europe Arctic container fast shipping route. Hangzhou Customs is closely following the new trend of "truck flights", jointly opening 7 "truck flight" routes with regional customs, and extending services to airports in cities along the Yangtze River such as Wuhan and Changsha, building a land sea route network covering the Yangtze River Delta and radiating to the central region. Convenient logistics has driven the rapid growth of trade. In the first 10 months of 2025, one city and three provinces in the Yangtze River Delta have exported 4.52 trillion yuan to countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road".
Smart Chain Yangtze River Delta: Focusing on Industrial Synergy and Activating Innovation Momentum
The stable and smooth operation of the industrial chain and supply chain is the core support for the high-quality development of regional economy. Shanghai Customs leads five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region, focusing on three major directions: upgrading traditional industries, strengthening emerging industries, and optimizing supply chains. It innovates regulatory models, strengthens collaborative services, and helps the Yangtze River Delta build a modern industrial system that is independent, controllable, safe, and efficient.
Empowering traditional industries and building a solid foundation for a manufacturing powerhouse
Traditional industries such as large-scale equipment manufacturing and petrochemicals are the cornerstone of the economic development of the Yangtze River Delta. In the field of shipbuilding, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hefei Customs have followed the trend of large-scale shipbuilding enterprise group operation in the region, jointly promoting the bonded supervision mode of enterprise groups, supporting enterprises to conveniently allocate and use bonded materials within the group, effectively solving the problems of cumbersome material circulation procedures and high capital occupation pressure in the past, and providing strong guarantees for the smooth delivery of fifth generation liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport ships and other ship products.
In the field of energy security, in order to solve the problems of "refueling difficulties" and "insufficient oil supply" for ships berthing at ports in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou Customs, together with Shanghai and Ningbo Customs, has opened a "through train" for oil supply ships. Oil supply enterprises only need to declare once the oil is released from the port of origin, and the fuel supply ship can directly go to the receiving port to refuel the ship, thus avoiding the circulation links from the port of origin to the receiving port and the resulting distribution, storage and other costs, and reducing the losses caused by secondary oil storage. In the first 10 months of 2025, five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region have cumulatively carried out bonded fuel cross-border direct supply business of 3.339 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.7%, helping Ningbo Zhoushan Port to remain the fourth largest refueling port in the world and providing solid energy support for the development of regional shipping industry.
Cultivate emerging industries and create innovative development growth engines
The high-tech industry represented by biomedicine is the core competitiveness of the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta. To solve the problem of easily affecting the performance and quality of high-tech goods such as vacuum packaging for import and export in ordinary port environments, five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region have jointly promoted the optimization and upgrading of the "high-tech goods control and inspection mode", taking the lead in achieving cross customs linkage, allowing enterprises registered in the Yangtze River Delta region to freely choose any customs in the region as the import destination customs, so that high-tech goods can reach the production and research and development front line faster. At the same time, Hefei Customs has taken the lead in building a vacuum packaging intelligent network backup platform, which has been launched and operated in the Yangtze River Delta region. Enterprises can handle filing business online in real-time, greatly improving efficiency. At present, the high-tech goods control and inspection mode has covered 231 enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region, reducing inspection time by more than 40%.
In order to overcome the "bottlenecks" and "difficulties" in the research and development of the biopharmaceutical industry, five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region have implemented facilitation measures such as a joint supervision mechanism for special goods entering and leaving the country, and a "whitelist" system for imported research and development materials for biopharmaceuticals, to help facilitate smooth customs clearance of reagents, materials, and other materials used in research and development. Thanks to these innovative measures, four biopharmaceutical industrial parks in the Yangtze River Delta region have entered the top 10 in terms of comprehensive competitiveness nationwide, becoming a new highland for the development of the domestic biopharmaceutical industry.
Innovative chain regulation to enhance the efficiency of industrial collaborative development
The industrial and supply chains in the Yangtze River Delta region are closely interconnected. To strengthen the collaborative supervision of key industrial chains and supply chains in the region, five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region are working together to implement a risk management model based on the supply chain as a unit. In the past, monitoring "individual batches of goods", "individual enterprises", and "individual links" was like "managing trees". Now, key nodes in the supply chain such as domestic and foreign consignees, declaration units, and production enterprises are "linked together" and evaluated as a whole, like "managing a forest". The five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region provide more convenient customs clearance services for honest enterprises through unified evaluation dimensions and application of unified results. Since 2025, there have been over 46000 verified and trustworthy supply chains in the region, helping 149000 verified and trustworthy supply chain goods worth 77.4 billion yuan enjoy convenient measures such as reducing control and inspection. This mode not only reduces the customs clearance costs of enterprises, but also improves the stability and resilience of the supply chain, making the Yangtze River Delta industrial chain supply chain more competitive in the global competition.
Smart Inspection in the Yangtze River Delta: Deepening Inspection Collaboration to Improve Customs Clearance Efficiency
Inspection operations are an important part of customs supervision and a key factor affecting clearance efficiency. The five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region take "smart inspection of the Yangtze River Delta" as the starting point, innovate inspection modes, strengthen cross customs cooperation, maximize customs clearance efficiency while ensuring regulatory safety, and reduce institutional transaction costs for enterprises.
Collaboration in port territorial supervision to solve the problem of seed and seedling import turnover
The flower and seedling industry is a typical green and beautiful economy, and also an advantageous industry in the Yangtze River Delta region. But imported seedlings are very delicate and extremely sensitive to temperature and humidity. If they stay at the port for an extra day, their survival rate and quality will decrease by one point, which directly affects the income of domestic operators and the efficiency of the industry. To this end, the customs of Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo have innovated the conditional removal mode for imported seedlings across customs zones, strengthened local supervision and cooperation at ports, and allowed seedlings to be removed to storage locations confirmed by customs to meet epidemic prevention conditions after inspection and sampling at ports, achieving "immediate inspection and retrieval". This model has opened up a "green channel" for delicate seedlings, enabling them to enter the appropriate environment about 10 days in advance. Therefore, the enterprise has significantly reduced the risk of cargo damage, and each container can also save nearly 10000 yuan of storage costs.
Innovative regulation of bulk commodities to ensure the supply of raw materials for key industries
Imported copper concentrate is an important raw material for ensuring the development of the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta, and its customs clearance efficiency directly affects the production progress of enterprises. In response to the demand of enterprises in the region to import copper concentrates from foreign owned mines, Nanjing and Hefei Customs have collaborated to establish a "port inspection and direct release+local sampling and testing" model, strictly implementing inspections of high-risk safety access projects such as radioactive testing and foreign inclusion quarantine at the port, and safeguarding the safety bottom line; Synchronize the inspection and supervision of projects that have been assessed as controllable risks, such as toxic and harmful elements and solid waste risk investigation, and move them to the destination. The total stay time of the ship's copper concentrate at the port has been reduced from 15 days to 4 days, with a compression rate of 73.3%. In the first 10 months of 2025, 472000 tons of copper concentrate with a value of 8.21 billion yuan were released through this model, providing strong support for the stable operation of the non-ferrous metal industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Optimization of dangerous goods supervision to achieve dual improvement of safety and convenience
The supervision of dangerous goods packaging is related to safety production and is a key area of customs supervision. Nanjing and Hefei Customs have taken the lead in implementing differentiated qualification assessment pilot projects for the use of dangerous goods packaging in the country. For most low-risk batches of dangerous goods packaging, verification release is implemented while maintaining a certain on-site inspection ratio. This innovative measure not only avoids the inefficiency caused by "one size fits all" regulation, but also concentrates efforts on strengthening the supervision of high-risk goods, achieving both safety and convenience improvements. At present, this model has covered 48 pilot enterprises, and the average supervision time of related goods has been reduced by about 45%. According to calculations from a pilot enterprise, this model can save 1.5 million yuan in warehousing and logistics costs throughout the year, and compress the average customer payment cycle by 10 days.
In addition, the five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region are also focusing on building the "Intelligent Control Yangtze River Delta" brand and constructing a joint defense line for national security; Building the brand of "Smart Travel in the Yangtze River Delta" and promoting convenient customs clearance for passengers entering and leaving the region... With the gradual shaping of more "Smart+Yangtze River Delta" brands, connecting points into lines, and forming a network, they will jointly form a matrix of customs brands serving the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
The tide surges in the Yangtze River Delta, setting sail again. Next, under the leadership of the Party Committee of the General Administration of Customs, the five directly affiliated customs in the Yangtze River Delta region will deeply implement the decision and deployment of "consolidating and enhancing the role of the driving force for high-quality development in the Yangtze River Delta" in the "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development". With greater determination, more practical measures, and stronger synergy, they will continue to deepen reform and innovation, strengthen collaborative linkage, continuously enrich the connotation of the "Smart+Yangtze River Delta" brand, make greater contributions to the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta with higher quality, and contribute to the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation!