Spring Festival is coming, "fruit" is lively! (Image)

The picture shows customs officers conducting on-site inspections of imported fresh dragon fruit. Photo by Zhang Qiulei

Recently, after being supervised and released by Huangdao Customs under Qingdao Customs, a batch of 17 tons of fresh dragon fruit imported from Vietnam was picked up from the designated supervision site for imported fruits on the same day and rushed to major domestic markets, adding a touch of fruit aroma to the upcoming Spring Festival.

Southeast Asia has ample sunlight, resulting in a redder surface and greener leaves of dragon fruit, with a bright 'appearance' and a sweet taste, which is highly favored by domestic consumers. Especially since January, the fruit market has been particularly hot, and our import volume has increased by 100 tons, "said Sun Lingjun, Operations Specialist of Shenzhen Pan Asia Global International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. Qingdao Branch." Due to the high demand for fresh food and sales, the longer the transportation time, the greater the impact on fruit quality

In order to assist enterprises in seizing the golden period of pre holiday sales, Huangdao Customs has precisely optimized the customs clearance process, opened up a "green channel" for inspection, launched special measures such as "priority inspection, immediate release upon inspection, expedited inspection" and appointment services, and fully guaranteed the efficient entry of imported fresh fruits such as dragon fruit into the domestic market to meet consumers' holiday needs.

In response to the high requirements for freshness preservation and strong customs clearance timeliness of imported fruits, we have tailored a series of special service measures such as automatic priority sorting, online application for urgent inspection, and online query of node information throughout the entire process based on the 'Customs Port Connection' platform. This not only effectively improves regulatory transparency, but also achieves convenient customs clearance with 'more data running and less enterprise running errands', "said Gao Yan, head of the Inspection Department Four of Huangdao Customs Inspection Office.

While ensuring the speed of customs clearance, the customs also implement strict entry quarantine on imported fresh dragon fruit, and conduct sampling and inspection of pesticide residues and other items according to requirements to ensure the safety of imported fruit food and safeguard the safety and quality of the Spring Festival "fruit basket".

According to statistics, since January this year, the customs have supervised the import of over 6000 tons of fresh fruits at Huangdao Port. (Han Yueying, Zhang Kesheng/text)