This article reviews China Customs' work in 2025, covering supporting national strategies, facilitating foreign trade, ensuring national security, expanding open cooperation, smart customs construction, and party building, highlighting its contributions to high-level opening-up.

Customs enhances understanding of production plans of key enterprises like Guangdong Petrochemical, uses shipping info and reform dividends to cut port stay; inspects imported crude oil for safety, regulating 22.762 million tons of crude oil imports in 2025 (up 6.2% YoY).

This article introduces the intelligent customs business operation monitoring system of China's General Administration of Customs, covering data integration (manual to intelligent analysis), algorithm empowerment (passive to active warning), three-level integration (local to overall collaboration), and benefits like enhanced risk control and efficient clearance.

Beijing Customs fulfills national security missions by providing high-level service for major events (such as the 93 commemoration), cracking down on drug smuggling, and implementing strict health quarantine measures at ports to ensure capital and public safety.

In 2025, China's economy showed strong resilience with progress in innovation (over 5 million valid invention patents), green transformation (clean energy growth), consumption upgrade (retail exceeding 50 trillion yuan), and effective policies. The 14th Five-Year Plan concluded successfully, and prospects for 2026 (start of 15th Five-Year Plan) are optimistic.

In 2025, China's economy achieved high-quality development with GDP reaching 140 trillion yuan (5.0% growth). Manufacturing remained world-leading, livelihood improved, and reform-opening deepened, laying a solid foundation for the 15th Five-Year Plan.

Wuhan attracts foreign-funded enterprises (e.g., Garrett, Anberg, Faurecia) via optimized policies, upgraded innovation, and improved services. It clusters automotive and other industries, becoming a favored foreign investment destination where firms thrive.

The 2026 World Economic Forum is held in Davos (Jan 19-23) with theme "The Spirit of Dialogue". Trump leads the largest US delegation, while US is cited as main global risk source. China's economic resilience and tech growth are praised, injecting stability. Global risks include geo-economic confrontation, with leaders exploring dialogue amid uncertainty.

Shenyang Taoxian Airport launched Northeast China's first international connecting flight (CZ8021 to Frankfurt) under Shenyang Customs supervision. Passengers enjoy one-stop check-in/customs clearance, simplifying travel. Customs optimized processes via simulations, and will expand routes to support regional revitalization.

Recently, under Qingdao Customs (Yantai & Penglai Customs) collaboration, Yantai Tongxing Industrial's independently developed complete machine lifting belt filter was shipped to Australia. Customs offered green channel, cross-customs coordination, cutting clearance time by nearly half, supporting "Made in China" going global.

Rizhao Customs coordinates international ship supplies clearance needs, ensures New Year supplies are delivered quickly to ocean going crew, improves efficiency via dynamic platform and smart devices, and has supervised nearly 600 batches of ship supplies this year.

On Jan 15, the first nationwide "TIR+bonded" shipment departed Qingdao for Russia via Manzhouli. TIR is a global customs facilitation system; the model cuts logistics costs/time, eases enterprise financial pressure. Qingdao Customs supports with 7×24 service to boost regional foreign trade.

Before the Spring Festival, cross-border e-commerce export of China-Chic New Year goods (lanterns, couplets, etc.) in Yantai Comprehensive Bonded Zone is booming. Yantai Customs offers convenient clearance measures, with traditional New Year goods sales up 30% and smart products up 70% YoY, aiding domestic e-commerce to reach global markets.

Weihai Customs implements smart visa automation for import clearance, issuing electronic "Entry Goods Inspection and Quarantine Certificates" in seconds (e.g., 30 tons of king crabs). This cuts processing time from days to seconds, saves costs, ensures freshness, and has same legal effect as paper certificates, optimizing the port business environment.

Yantai Penglai International Airport facilitates China-South Korea travel with visa-free policies and smart customs clearance. In 2025, inbound-outbound passengers will exceed 430,000 (up 27% YoY), with more international routes opening. Yantai Customs promotes smart systems for seamless clearance, boosting international passenger flow.

Qingdao Dagang Customs resolved an ammonium chloride commodity classification dispute for a foreign trade company via its Spring Maple Language Studio, coordinating experts to explain policies and expedite procedures, enabling the company to complete customs formalities and reduce storage losses. Since its Nov 2023 establishment, the studio has handled 30 law enforcement disputes, etc.

The article introduces Qingdao (Shandong) as China's largest kimchi production and export base to South Korea (accounting for ~70% of China's exports to Korea). Supported by customs policies like batch inspection, Qingdao's kimchi exports reached 286,000 tons in 2025 (up 11.6% YoY), with customs optimizing services to boost global exports.

2026年1月15日银川综合保税区迎来首笔TIR国际公路运输业务，搭载500箱花卉的TIR车辆以“TIR+保税”模式出口至吉尔吉斯斯坦比什凯克，标志宁夏开通新跨境物流通道，海关提供专属服务保障时效，深化一带一路制度型开放。

In 2025, Wuhu exported 975,000 cars (up 35.8% YoY) with value exceeding 100 billion yuan (up 44.8% YoY). Chery leads Chinese brand passenger car exports for 23 years. Wuhu Customs launched package services to boost export efficiency, reduce costs, and plans to further optimize the environment for "Made in Wuhu" auto exports.

Anhui’s foreign trade exceeded 1 trillion yuan in 2025 (9th in China, first in central China). Key exports: high-tech products (+16.6%) and automobiles (1.228M units, first in China). Trade with Belt and Road, ASEAN (+38.3%), EU (+21.6%) grew; private enterprises led.