In Oct 2025, China and ASEAN signed the CAFTA 3.0 Upgrade Protocol, highlighting trade facilitation (e.g., Guangxi Youyiguan smart port), emerging fields (digital/green economy), and SME support. It upgrades bilateral cooperation from trade partners to industrial chain communities, boosting regional economic growth.

Since the China-Korea FTA took effect in 2015, Guangzhou Customs has issued over 390,000 China-Korea origin certificates (valued ~90b yuan) to enterprises, enabling tariff preferences. Multiple industries (equipment manufacturing, home appliances, food) benefit, with customs providing precise assistance like intelligent auditing and one-on-one support.

Ministry of Commerce issued pilot tasks for expanding service industry opening-up in 9 cities including Dalian, assigning 159 tasks covering 3 aspects, and will promote implementation to drive national service industry development.

The article discusses China's adherence to high-level opening-up, with 2026 Central Economic Work Conference arrangements. It covers world opportunities in China's market, industrial supply chain cooperation, optimized investment environment, and high-quality Belt and Road Initiative, demonstrating China's major country confidence and responsibility.

On Canadian PM Carney's upcoming China visit, an Ipsos poll shows 54% of Canadians support a Canada-China trade agreement, reflecting a need to diversify trade amid US uncertainty. The visit aims to strengthen cooperation in trade, energy, agriculture, and international security.

Implemented the "Three Year Action Plan for Enhancing the Capability of National Defenders", developed training plans, conducted personnel exchanges/learning, cultivated multi-specialty cadres, and improved the team's professional level.

In 2025, Ningbo Zhoushan Port achieved over 1.4 billion tons cargo throughput (17th consecutive world first) and 43 million+ TEUs container throughput (3rd world). It advances with smart/green upgrades, sea-rail intermodal transport, supporting China's high-level opening-up.

In 2025, Shijiazhuang Customs issued 21,000 China-Korea FTA origin certificates (6.66b yuan visa amount), helping Hebei enterprises gain ~360m yuan tariff reductions. It optimized visa services (smart review, self-printing) and plans to expand policy promotion for SMEs/emerging industries to support Hebei's integration into regional supply chains.

On the first day of the new year, Henan's foreign trade had good news: Nile Machinery's gold selection line for Zambia started construction, and Henan's first batch of candy via market procurement trade arrived in the Philippines, showing innovative foreign trade and service efforts.

On Dec 26, 2025, Henan’s first prepackaged food (300 candies) was exported via market procurement trade under Zhengzhou Customs supervision. This new channel supports local specialty foods and SMEs with simplified procedures/VAT exemption, boosting Henan’s foreign trade.

Ningbo moves from national manufacturing champion city to new quality city, focusing on new quality productivity via innovation, industry, finance, opening up, with solid manufacturing base.

Ningbo enterprises participate in international exhibitions (e.g., CES Las Vegas, Frankfurt Home Textile) to expand foreign trade. The 2026 "Ningbo Trade Global" action is launched, supporting over 1400 companies in nearly 30 overseas shows in Q1, driving growth.

Amid global population aging, China’s silver economy (aging products, medical devices) sees export growth. Customs implements measures (logistics cost reduction, policy support, compliance guidance) to facilitate exports, with 2025 Jan-Nov data showing increased shipments.

The construction of smart customs is in the "final assembly and integration" stage. Ningbo Customs plans to build a customs "smart brain" to promote management upgrading to "global and intelligent", focusing on core positioning, support foundation, endogenous power activation and security barrier.

Ningbo garden machinery enterprises (Aosheng, Cuike) run at full capacity for export peak. Jan-Nov 2025 exports rose 23.9% (28.1% BRI, 26.6% CEEC), driven by R&D (intelligent manufacturing) and Ningbo Customs' policy/technical support.

The Mediterranean Shipping Company's Australian route officially opened as Ningbo Zhoushan Port's first 2026 new route (a Belt and Road route). Deploying 7 4000-TEU vessels weekly, it connects Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo to Brisbane/Sydney, cutting China-Australia transit time to 14 days, with customs support boosting trade efficiency.

National customs implements policies to promote the healthy and high-quality development of China's private economy, with measures like door-to-door policy outreach, law enforcement optimization, institutional innovation, and regulatory upgrades. These help enterprises reduce costs, improve efficiency, expand markets, and a law popularization handbook is compiled.

Jiaxiang County (Shandong, China) is China's largest ski glove production base with a complete industrial chain, high domestic/export market shares. Local policies and Jining Customs' facilitation measures support enterprises facing raw material import pressures, aiding exports amid global ice and snow economy growth.

Qingdao Dagang Customs seized 26.4kg of illegally carried plant seeds (soybean, radish, barley) from inbound passengers. These seeds are prohibited by China's quarantine regulations, and the customs has destroyed them.

Recently, Linyi Customs supervises cosmetics (including perfume) exports. In 2025, its supervised cosmetics export value hit 42.76 million yuan, up 88% year-on-year. Customs launched targeted policies to help local beauty enterprises expand overseas, with products exported to Malaysia and other regions.