During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs upgraded its "quality" to "new" and promoted the high-quality development of foreign trade
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Adhere to the bottom line of safety and firmly build a national security barrier
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, 'We must firmly grasp the important mission of Northeast China in safeguarding the country's' Five Major Security'. '. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs took it as its responsibility to maintain the country's "five major security", adhered to coordinated development and security, actively played the role of customs functions, and resolutely built a strong national security barrier.
In December 2025, customs officers from Dayaowan Customs under Dalian Customs discovered various harmful weeds during an inspection of a shipment of imported barley. After quarantine and identification, quarantine pests such as French wild oats and North American ears were detected.
French wild oats are highly dangerous malignant weeds in the fields, with strong vitality, competitiveness, and ecological plasticity. They have multiple transmission routes, high reproductive coefficients, and are prone to forming a single community in the affected area, posing a threat to China's agricultural and forestry ecological security, "said Zheng Binbin, Deputy Director of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Department of Dalian Customs.
The Northeast region is the "ballast stone" for maintaining national food security, and it is of great responsibility to build a solid ecological barrier for agricultural development. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs launched a three-year special action to prevent the invasion of alien species, continuously strengthening the prevention and control of major animal and plant diseases. A total of 29457 quarantine pests such as the new pineapple gray scale insect and the single cut wood bark beetle were intercepted, and 10176 key managed alien invasive species such as amaranth and three lobed ragweed were intercepted; Independently developed and applied the "Visual Intelligent Supervision Technology Platform for Imported Grain Transportation", which uses "Internet of Things+Satellite Navigation" technology to achieve intelligent management of the entire process of "import, export, storage, and transfer" of imported grain. Each batch can compress customs clearance time by 7 to 9 days; Smooth the green channel for the import of agricultural materials, promote convenient measures such as "ship side direct delivery", "appointment clearance", and "immediate inspection upon arrival", maximize the efficiency of customs clearance for imported agricultural materials, and ensure the needs of agricultural production in Northeast China.
In December 2025, at the Bayuquan Port Area of Yingkou Port, the "Dayasangti" ship loaded with 77000 tons of imported coal slowly docked at the A5 dock, and customs officers waiting on the shore immediately carried out health quarantine and other related work. Four hours later, this batch of coal was successfully cleared and released, and then transported to the Yingkou Power Plant of Huaneng International Power Co., Ltd. for the company's power generation and heating needs to ensure people's livelihoods. According to statistics, during the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs supervised a total of 73.57 million tons of imported coal, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%.
Energy security is an important support for national security. In order to ensure stable energy supply in Northeast China, Dalian Customs has innovatively launched a "release before inspection+centralized declaration+risk monitoring" regulatory system for energy material imports, optimizing the quality project inspection of liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other commodities, and significantly improving the efficiency of energy import customs clearance; Approved the establishment of the first LNG bonded warehouse in Northeast China, achieving an annual import and export turnover of 240000 tons.
In addition, Dalian Customs continues to focus on the development of major projects and key industries, and strives to cultivate new competitive advantages in foreign trade. Ensure the construction of Huajin Aramco Fine Chemical and Raw Material Engineering Project, a major cooperation project between China and Saudi Arabia, and support the implementation of Bora Lyondell Petrochemicals, SK Hynix 10 billion dollar chip, Hengli Heavy Industry shipbuilding and new materials and other industrial projects; We have launched a "full lifecycle" service model for the shipbuilding industry, supporting the transformation of Dalian's marine equipment manufacturing industry towards high-end, intelligent, and green development. We have also assisted in the smooth export of the world's largest tonnage multi-purpose pulp ship and the first LNG transport ship. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the regulated export value of ships reached 54.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.6%.
Doing a good job in reform and fully serving high-quality development
Reform and opening up is an important tool for the Party and the people to catch up with the times. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs took the construction of a smart customs and the "Smart Customs Strong Country" action as the starting point, continuously promoted institutional innovation and technological empowerment, continuously emerged reform achievements, and steadily improved regulatory efficiency and service level.
In October 2025, the "Kanghe 6" ship loaded with 65000 tons of imported coal arrived at Panjin Port in Liaoning Province. After boarding the ship, the inspection officers of Panjin Customs under Dalian Customs used a portable water gauge observation device to carry out water gauge weighing work. The observation, recording, and calculation were completed in one go, and the data was directly displayed on the screen through wireless transmission. In just half an hour, all observation and calculation work was completed.
"Our self-developed portable water gauge observation device, which can be operated by individual soldiers, has the characteristics of portability, high efficiency, accurate measurement, real-time data recording, and has obtained the patent certification of the China National Intellectual Property Administration." Zhang Ning, deputy director of Panjin Customs, introduced.
Technology empowerment is profoundly reshaping the customs supervision mode, significantly improving customs clearance efficiency and risk prevention and control capabilities. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs promoted the construction of "smart travel inspection" at the airport port, building a three in one supervision model of "risk assessment early machine inspection intelligent map review", and applying intelligent devices such as facial recognition and intelligent map review to achieve "seamless clearance" for low-risk passengers, effectively improving the clearance experience; In the field of hazardous chemical supervision, the concept of "big data+algorithms+intelligent equipment" is applied to develop specialized explosion-proof AR glasses to assist customs officers in quickly assessing the risk factors of goods, and the inspection efficiency is improved by more than three times.
In December 2025, 126 kilograms of freshly picked Dandong "99" strawberries were successfully shipped and will be exported to Malaysia via Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport after passing the supervision of Dalian Customs under the jurisdiction of Dadong Port Customs. During the customs clearance process, enterprise personnel can quickly apply for the Plant Quarantine Certificate through convenient measures such as "cloud issuance" of inspection and quarantine certificates for subsequent customs clearance needs.
When reform is not completed, it is only ongoing. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs pioneered the "Smart Declaration Navigation for Import and Export Commodities" function, which shortened the data entry time for a single enterprise declaration from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, and increased the standardized declaration rate for related commodities to over 99%; Exploring a new mode of inspection for the recycling of export lithium battery packaging boxes to ensure that enterprises can reuse packaging boxes for shipping lithium batteries for export. Currently, 818500 recycling packaging boxes have been regulated, saving enterprises 163 million yuan in costs; Jointly with local financial institutions, we have launched a new model of "Guanjinhui" enterprise friendly services. By building an artificial intelligence financial model, we have innovatively explored a financial path of "customs data+financial services" to benefit enterprises. We have helped 68 small and micro foreign trade enterprises obtain financing amounts exceeding 480 million yuan.
Make good use of open platforms to promote high-level opening up to the outside world
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the implementation of the strategy to enhance the pilot free trade zone, encouraging innovative and integrated exploration, and creating a new highland of reform and opening up with higher levels of openness and stronger radiation effects. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs deeply implemented the strategy to enhance the pilot free trade zone, supported the construction of high-level platforms, and steadily expanded institutional opening-up.
Recently, 2000 domestically produced new energy vehicles directly entered Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Logistics Center through the "ground running" method. Subsequently, under the full digital supervision of Dayaowan Customs officers, these new energy vehicles were transported directly to the Dalian Port Automobile Terminal through a dedicated cross sea channel and then exported to South Africa.
The Dayaowan Bonded Logistics Center is located adjacent to Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. Dalian Branch and Dongfeng Nissan Dalian Branch of Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. It has a unique location advantage of "front port, back factory", which can realize the "entry into the zone and tax refund upon entry" of automobiles, support enterprises to improve the efficiency of capital utilization, and save operating costs. Dalian Customs has pioneered the "AI high-speed camera recognition technology", opening up a convenient channel for the entire export process of whole vehicles and KD parts, achieving an annual export value of 1.2 billion yuan for new energy vehicles, and fully promoting the construction of the Northeast Automobile Export Comprehensive Service Base.
During the 14th Five Year Plan period, in order to promote the construction of the Northeast Asia International Shipping Center in Dalian, Dalian Customs actively created the "Port Rail Connection" model, established a "one-stop" service platform, and achieved "zero waiting" for customs clearance, release, loading, and shipping of goods on the China Europe freight train. A total of 786 import and export trains and 82000 TEUs were issued; Supporting the expansion and opening of ports in the Guanqu area, accepting and opening 113 berths, and supporting the temporary opening of 10 berths in the Dadong Port area of Dandong Port, helping Liaoning Province become one of the three provinces with tax refund policies for both sea and land ports of departure.
In July 2025, under the supervision of Dayaowan Customs, China Shipbuilding Fuel Dalian Co., Ltd. successfully refueled 500 tons of domestically produced bonded green methanol fuel for the "COSCO Shipping Yangpu" vessel. This is the first international shipping bonded green methanol refueling business in Northeast China.
To ensure the smooth implementation of the first bonded green methanol refueling business, we have piloted the reform of "two warehouse function superposition" for bonded warehouses and export supervision warehouses. Methanol does not require actual tank pouring operations, and can be transferred between accounts through list declaration. The operation process has been simplified from the traditional "two in and two out" to "one in and one out", greatly reducing the operating costs of ship supply enterprises and effectively improving the efficiency of ship supply, "said Fan Yong, Deputy Director of Beiliang Port Customs under Dalian Customs.
As important platforms for the development of an open economy, free trade pilot zones and customs special supervision areas are not only the "bridgeheads" for promoting the "dual circulation", but also the "main battlefield" for deepening reforms. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, Dalian Customs focused on institutional innovation to assist Liaoning in building an open and cooperative hub in Northeast Asia. One free trade innovation measure was selected as a pilot experience for reform by the State Council, eight innovative measures were registered with the General Administration of Customs, and 27 innovative measures were replicated and promoted within Liaoning Province; Launching a series of brands such as "Commodity+Reform" and "Bonded+", and for the first time carrying out "Bonded Screening" for iron ore, "Bonded Mixing" for imported copper concentrate, "Bonded Mixing" for high and low sulfur bonded fuel oil, bonded aircraft financing leasing, and bonded futures soybean delivery, to promote the construction of Dalian's commodity resource allocation base; Focusing on the development of new quality productivity, supporting the construction of semiconductor characteristic comprehensive bonded zones, and combining innovative measures such as "convenient supervision of equipment spare parts", applying the "risk perception" smart platform, etc., to help Dalian's annual import and export value of semiconductors exceed 25 billion yuan.
When the wind is in season, it will break through the waves and move forward; The road ahead is long and arduous, and it is even more necessary to ride a horse and whip. Standing at the new starting point of the 15th Five Year Plan, Dalian Customs will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, fully understand the new situation and tasks faced by China during the 15th Five Year Plan period, always anchor itself in the first echelon of practicing the "two safeguards", be brave in fulfilling its responsibilities and missions of guarding the country's borders and promoting development, and be brave in advancing the goal of comprehensive strict governance of the Party and customs in depth. We will adhere to the policy of stringing beads together, reform system integration, activate multiplier effects, accelerate the construction of smart customs and the "smart customs power" action, persistently strengthen supervision and optimize services, better coordinate development and security, and make due contributions to promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era. (Liu Weiwei, Ren Yimin, Shu Zhong, Jiang Yang/Wen)