The office of the port of entry and exit of Zibo city in East China's Shandong province – and nine other municipal government departments – on April 11 jointly issued 24 measures to deepen cross-border trade reforms and optimize the business environment of its inland port.
The measures cover five areas: deepening reforms of the whole gamut of customs clearance operations, standardizing port fees, improving port information levels, optimizing port services and strengthening regional customs clearance cooperation.
The measures to reform the whole range of customs clearance operations will focus on further reducing overall clearance times and optimizing the clearance process.
Port charges will be regulated and better supervised, while a number of departments will cooperate to realize sharing of administrative punishment information dissemination about illegal price behavior undertaken by any port fee-charging enterprises.
Intelligent facilities and a new administrative approval mechanism will be applied to cut red tape.
To improve the inland port's services, measures were issued to boost the development of commercial credit and that of customs certification services for businesses.
In addition, measures were also announced to deepen cooperation in customs clearances for areas along the Yellow River.
