General Administration of Customs in Beijing and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region signed a memorandum of cooperation

Supporting improve the level of opening up in Xinjiang

Customs and Excise Department and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, February 28, signed in Beijing "about further enhance the level of opening up a memorandum of cooperation in Xinjiang", the two sides will cooperate closely and jointly improve the level of opening up in Xinjiang.
Party group secretary of the General Administration of Customs, the Director and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government of President盛光祖Noor. White Huoreg separately signed the MOU. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, party secretary of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Wang attended the signing ceremony.
According to a memorandum of cooperation, the Customs Department will promote the special supervision of the Xinjiang regional construction, further improve the city of Urumqi bonded logistics, processing trade, warehousing distribution, exhibition procurement and other functions in support of the city of Urumqi has become based on the Mainland, the radiation in Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Europe export market base and regional international trade and business center to promote the advantages of Xinjiang's ports and regional advantages into industrial advantage; further support the development of Xinjiang's border trade, the implementation of border trade on the country's preferential policies will be border trade through trade imports Living supplies duty-free limit, by the value per person per day at 3,000 yuan to 8000 yuan. Huoerguosi ha on the International Border Cooperation Center to co-ordinate the planning, science and set of customs supervision and operation of flow patterns, accelerate the cooperative center; Customs will implement the "early to declare to the clearance of goods", "reservation customs clearance" to facilitate customs clearance, etc. measures to support industrial development in Xinjiang characteristics, and promote the construction of major projects in Xinjiang, and support the development of a conditional imports of resources landing ports deep processing, export processing, bonded logistics, storage and transportation and modern logistics industry and other industries. According to a memorandum of cooperation, the Customs and Excise Department will also benefit from the strengthening of statistical services to support the ports in Xinjiang大通关building, maintaining trade order, improve the capacity of a total of seven aspects of the promotion of job opening to the outside world Xinjiang.
At the same time, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region People's Government will actively review the coordinating country, the immigration, foreign trade department in collaboration with the Customs contact, contact the Conference set up a system for customs enforcement activities to create a good environment, and increase the places of port infrastructure and regulatory foundation infrastructure investment, and actively support the Customs and Excise Department's participation in local economic construction.
In addition, the two sides will set up the Department of the District work closely contact mechanism, regular meetings between the research required in Xinjiang to expand opening to the outside world to support the work of Customs, General Administration of Customs and the overall strengthening of the regional government communication and coordination, and gradually perfect the multi-level, wide areas of recurrent communication platform, and constantly improve our level of cooperation, to promote Xinjiang's economic and social good and fast development of new contributions.
General Administration of Customs Department Leaders LI, Sun Pu,王松鹤, Lu Jun,胡玉敏,吕滨, director of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Congress Standing Committee in accordance with Levitra more •明巴海, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman艾斯海提• krym al, Autonomous Region People's Government Vice-President Hu attended the signing ceremony.
News Background links: Xinjiang at the overall work of the party and the country an important strategic position. Central Committee and State Council of the District for the situation in Xinjiang has special policies and measures taken to promote Xinjiang's development and stability. In 2007 the State Council issued the "about to further promote economic and social development in Xinjiang, a number of opinions" (National Development 〔2007〕 32号), from an overall and strategic perspective, further defined the speeding up of economic and social development of Xinjiang's overall requirements, guiding principles, basic ideas, strategic objectives and a series of major policies and measures, the full implementation and upgrade the opening-up strategy in Xinjiang westward to Xinjiang in western China into a new point of economic growth and opening up the frontier zone, export processing base built westward and transit of goods distribution, import of energy and scarce mineral resources in the international channel. Customs and Excise Department and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region People's Government after in-depth research and careful consultation, the Department of the District decide to sign memorandum of cooperation, set up in close contact the Department of the District working mechanism, strengthen the cooperation between the two sides to further enhance the level of opening up in Xinjiang, and strive to maintain social stability, and jointly promote the economy of Xinjiang good and fast development of society.
According to customs statistics Urumqi: Xinjiang's imports and exports in 2008 to maintain a rapid growth, the first time across the total value of annual imports and exports of 20 billion U.S. dollars mark, reaching 22.21 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the same period last year (the same below) an increase of 62%, higher than the national average increase of 44.2 percentage points, the import and export growth rate of the country's second largest after the Tibet Autonomous Region. Among them, the export of 19.3 billion U.S. dollars, up 67.8 percent; imports of 2.91 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 31.8%. Achieve a cumulative trade surplus of 16.39 billion U.S. dollars. Municipalities, and regions in the country ranked No. 12, representing an increase in 2007 rank three, ranking first in the western region.