Release vitality, manage efficiency, and upgrade services - Yinchuan Customs helps foreign trade enterprises "go global"
In the deep winter season, the earth in Ningxia is very cold, but the local foreign trade business is still busy.
At the export warehouse of Guyuan Xuechuan Liupanshan Food (Ningxia) Co., Ltd., more than 2000 boxes of frozen potato strips are being prepared to be sent to Thailand. The staff are holding video phones to interact with customs in real time, and the entire process from unboxing and sampling to quality verification is completed smoothly in less than half an hour.
At the parking lot of Wuzhong Ningxia Zhonghui Chemical Co., Ltd., four sea transport tank trucks loaded with n-hexane are waiting for the staff to take photos and sign for confirmation before being sent to South Korea. The entire journey only takes 10 minutes.
In recent years, Yinchuan Customs has focused on the "high customs clearance time requirements" for the export of fresh and perishable agricultural and food products, as well as the "safety control" requirements for dangerous goods supervision. With smart supervision and innovative supervision as breakthroughs, it has successively launched "5+2" green inspection channels, remote local inspections, "batch inspections" and other supervision models, fully supporting the high-level opening up of local foreign trade. According to statistics, in 2025, the total import and export value of Ningxia's foreign trade will be 20.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%. Among them, exports amounted to 15.41 billion yuan, an increase of 2.2%; Imports amounted to 5.58 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7%. The total export value of agricultural and food products in Ningxia was 2.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.1%.
Smart regulatory measures empower technology to unleash market vitality
Delivering fresh agricultural products to the international market tests the ability to race against time. The remote territorial inspection by customs provided 'technological assistance' for this game.
In the traditional on-site inspection mode in the past, there was a "time difference" between waiting for scheduling and customs officers traveling across locations. At the production workshop of Xuechuan Liupanshan Food (Ningxia) Co., Ltd. in Guyuan City, the person in charge, Song Wei, had a clear feeling: "Guyuan is more than 200 kilometers away from Zhongwei, which takes 3 hours by car. Previously, customs staff had to spend most of half a day traveling back and forth. Now, remote inspection is implemented, which not only ensures quality but also saves time. Our french fries can be arranged and shipped in a timely manner according to orders, giving the enterprise more freedom to respond to market changes.
According to the staff of Yinchuan Customs, remote intelligent supervision by Customs has upgraded the traditional process of "mandatory attendance" for Customs officers to "online real-time interaction" between Customs and enterprises, optimizing the uncontrollable waiting time of enterprises into predictable online processes. Through process optimization, it has reduced production costs for local agricultural and food product exports, enhanced international market competitiveness, and provided support for enterprises to stabilize foreign trade and promote development while maintaining the bottom line of export product quality and safety.
Since October 2025, the remote inspection mode has shifted from partial pilot to diversified layout, allowing more Ning goods to enjoy benefits. Special agricultural and food products such as cold vegetables, wine, and goji berries have been included one after another. Since its operation, this mode has cumulatively supervised and ensured the smooth export of 76.5 tons of agricultural products. By scientifically allocating law enforcement resources, the average inspection time has been reduced by about 80%, and the inspection efficiency has been improved by more than four times.
Innovating regulatory models with targeted measures to enhance regulatory efficiency
Given the characteristics of dangerous goods and the requirements of modern transportation systems, especially the need to ensure the safety of people, property, and the environment, the export of dangerous goods should not only consider transportation costs and speeds, but also the safety requirements of the transportation process. The pilot reform of "batch inspection" for dangerous goods has provided a solution.
In August 2025, Yinchuan Customs will scientifically establish a "batch inspection unit" based on credit management and risk management, and implement a "first inspection+sampling" mode for products in the same batch. After the first batch of goods from the enterprise passes the on-site inspection, subsequent products in the same batch do not need to be inspected and will be released upon declaration. This reform has reduced the on-site inspection volume of pilot enterprises by 80%, and enterprises can flexibly adjust their shipping schedules according to international market demand.
The relevant person in charge of Yinchuan Customs said, "The reform of the 'batch inspection' mode for export goods is to implement local inspections on export goods based on 'inspection batches', effectively avoiding the need for equal supervision and achieving scientific, accurate, and efficient supervision
After our company was included in the pilot program by the customs, the overall inspection process from declaration to release has been compressed by more than 90%. The company's warehousing, logistics, and shipping booking have become more flexible and convenient, "said the person in charge of Ningxia Zhonghui Chemical." Now as long as the shipping schedule is suitable, orders can be placed at any time
By the end of 2025, Yinchuan Customs will adopt the "batch inspection" supervision mode, reducing a total of 24 customs enforcement personnel, reducing the distance of field transportation by about 1600 kilometers, and saving about 1 million yuan in economic costs such as logistics and warehousing for enterprises.
Policy coordination combined with efficient and convenient services for industrial upgrading
While promoting innovation in regulatory models, Yinchuan Customs is synchronously building a comprehensive service system, from policy guidance, standard docking to smooth channels, accurately solving export problems for enterprises, and building a "safeguard line" for Ninghuo's "going global".
To address the issue of enterprises' lack of understanding of policy requirements, Yinchuan Customs has collaborated with local agricultural and commercial departments to conduct joint training and review foreign notification cases to provide risk warnings. Organize experts to provide on-site guidance for enterprises to apply for compliance, create a special promotional article with both pictures and text, and guide enterprises to proficiently use the remote inspection function online. At the same time, provide real-time answers to enterprise questions online. In order to solve the problem of long transportation distance and high preservation requirements for fresh vegetables, Yinchuan Customs actively explores the establishment of a "one box to the end" fully temperature controlled land sea intermodal and rail sea intermodal international logistics channel with ports such as Qingdao and Tianjin, promoting the seamless connection of export refrigerated vegetables with "one commission, one declaration, and full clearance", and avoiding delays in the second inspection of goods at ports. At the same time, we will promote the "cloud issuance" model for inspection and quarantine certificates, compressing the issuance time of paper certificates from 0.5 working days to online instant processing, and cooperating with the "5+2" booking green channel for customs clearance to ensure that fresh and perishable agricultural and food products are "inspected upon declaration and issued upon qualification". We will coordinate the implementation of convenient customs clearance policies such as "priority local inspection" and "priority laboratory testing" for customs advanced certification enterprises, and the independent issuance of origin declarations by approved exporters to enjoy convenient tariff reduction benefits, in order to achieve stable growth in customs clearance speed and export volume.
A series of measures have been taken to promote a win-win situation of "improving the quality and efficiency of customs supervision and expanding the market for enterprises", from breaking down spatial barriers through intelligent supervision to providing precise services to solve export problems.
The relevant person in charge of Yinchuan Customs stated that now, with the "networking" of customs certificates, the "cloud migration" of seals, and the "online launch" of intelligence, Ninghuo is expanding globally with a richer variety, better quality, and more efficient pace, providing replicable and promotable practical experience for the high-quality development of foreign trade in inland areas.