Party building leading, regulatory optimization, service upgrading

At the beginning of the new year, the cold wind is biting, and vehicles flow back and forth from Qingdao Dagang Port.

Recently, a giant ship carrying 1120 tons of imported copper concentrate from Peru slowly docked. At the forefront of the dock, the gantry crane operates efficiently; Above the yard, young customs officers Wang Xiaomeng and Li Ze have been waiting for a long time. After the goods are unloaded, they immediately begin a series of rigorous and skilled regulatory actions, including radioactive screening, solid waste screening, and precise sampling. After ensuring that the environmental safety indicators are qualified, the customs officer issues a release order, and the enterprise immediately arranges vehicles to transport the goods to the factory for production. This efficient import supervision operation is a vivid footnote to Qingdao Dagang Customs, which belongs to Qingdao Customs, insisting on promoting the combination of party building work and actual supervision business, and transforming organizational advantages into service efficiency.

Step by step detection to solve enterprise concerns

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to accelerate the filling of gaps in the field of security development and enhance the ability to guarantee the supply of strategic resources. The Party branch of the Fourth Inspection Department of Qingdao Dagang Customs relies on Qingdao Port as a hub for importing mineral resources, and fully guarantees the security and stability of the mineral resource supply chain.

Copper concentrate is an important production raw material in the manufacturing industry, with a large weight and high value of goods. One day of detention in port generates a large amount of costs, and the efficiency of customs clearance directly affects the operation of enterprises, "said Zhang Hongjie, the secretary of the Party branch.

In response to this challenge, the branch actively integrated party building into business operations, organized multiple rounds of discussions and demonstrations among party members, actively participated in the pilot project of the "step-by-step testing" mode for the Qingdao Customs imported copper concentrate laboratory inspection project, and quickly completed the safety, hygiene, and environmental protection items that are legally required to be inspected at the unloading stage, ensuring that goods comply with regulations and are delivered in a timely manner. Quality testing can be promoted in parallel with the pace of enterprise production materials. Through process reengineering, we can accurately address the pain points of the enterprise, significantly reduce the time of goods being held in port, and accelerate the turnover of enterprise funds.

The pressure of raw material inventory is high, and the amount of capital occupied is also large. 'Step by step testing' has won us a key production buffer period, "said Shan Zhenfei, the manager of the port transportation department of Yanggu Jianfa Copper Industry Co., Ltd., who deeply understands this. According to calculations, the new model reduces the average storage time for a single batch of goods by 4 days, saving approximately 138000 yuan in storage costs. In 2025, the company imported a total of 1.08 million tons of copper concentrate, resulting in cost savings of nearly 15 million yuan due to faster customs clearance.

Cross level relay to overcome difficulties

In July and August last year, a set of urgently needed scientific research equipment - the digital tomography system - imported by Qingdao Hospital of Rehabilitation University arrived at Qingdao Port. The hospital has coordinated with all parties to prepare for the reception, and foreign installation engineers have also made a special trip from abroad to China, with an extremely tight time window. However, an unexpected situation arose: the relevant information of the goods could not be found in the customs clearance system, and the customs clearance procedures could not be processed.

Upon hearing the anxious voice of the company on the phone, I immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. "After hanging up the phone, the branch committee member Li Jianing quickly traced the problem and found that the company had filled in the regulatory identification code incorrectly during the declaration, leading to a series of subsequent problems. So she immediately guided the company to submit a correction application.

The next day, although the information had been corrected, the system instructions had not yet been generated. I was worried that waiting was not a solution, so I thought of trying another way. "Li Jianing took the initiative to contact the customs at the declaration site, coordinate the re push of data, and at the same time, coordinate with multiple departments such as risk prevention and control. Finally, she successfully inspected and processed the customs clearance procedures.

The difficulty never stops, new questions come up again. Due to the impact of the typhoon, the engineer's schedule was disrupted and the original inspection plan was forced to be interrupted. Li Jianing and Comrade Li Zhaoxue, who has more than 20 years of party experience, took the initiative to shoulder their responsibilities and decisively rearranged the inspection work. They completed most of the inspection work during the window period before the engineers arrived, and quickly completed the final debugging confirmation after the engineers arrived, minimizing the clearance time to the greatest extent possible.

Thoughtful service to assist with relocation

When a home appliance group company in Qingdao decided to relocate its overseas factory back to China to optimize its global layout, complex customs clearance practices became a challenge: a large number of second-hand equipment categories were complex, the value was difficult to estimate, there were multiple regulatory requirements, and the declaration and review chain was long, which easily led to goods being stranded in port and caused additional costs.

We have divided the 'Party Member Responsibility Zone' to provide full process tracking services for enterprises from early policy consultation to later inspection and release. We provide detailed interpretation of policy requirements such as pre shipment inspection and import of used mechanical and electrical products, and help enterprises classify and prepare for compliance of hundreds of sets of equipment. "Zhang Hongjie introduced.

After the goods arrived at the port, the Party member assault team worked overtime and went to the port and warehouse in batches to conduct inspections. While strictly implementing standards and ensuring equipment safety and environmental protection standards, they patiently guided the enterprise in equipment inventory, classification declaration, and subsequent installation precautions.

In the end, this batch of equipment carrying the hope of industrial upgrading was quickly put into operation, helping enterprises shorten the production capacity recovery cycle and effectively transforming the support of customs into the competitiveness and production efficiency of enterprises.

From the "precise drip irrigation" of policy guidance, to the "efficient escort" of on-site inspection, from the "proactive" of risk prevention and control, to the "full online" support for production, this "red service team" has paved a convenient and smooth "fast lane" for major industrial projects with professionalism and responsibility, vividly interpreting the profound connotation of "strong party building leads to business excellence, and excellent service leads to development and prosperity".

Behind each vivid case is a powerful synergy of resonance and deep integration between party building and business. In recent years, Qingdao Dagang Customs has conducted in-depth discussions on "If I were a Service Object", guiding all customs officers to think from their perspective and empathize with others. By establishing "Party Member Demonstration Posts" and "Party Member Responsibility Zones", and selecting "Party Member Service Model Soldiers", the exemplary role of pioneers can be felt, learned, and understood. The Party branch has increasingly become a fortress for overcoming difficulties, and Party members have become a clear banner for optimizing the business environment. They constantly transform the purpose of "People's Customs for the People" into conscious actions and innovative practices to solve the "urgent difficulties and worries" of enterprises. (Wang Xiaomeng, Li Lin/text)