Nation's customs declarations go electronic
( 2003-08-14 09:10) (China Daily)
Eighty per cent of customs declarations for China's exports are now done
electronically, an official told a Guangzhou conference yesterday.
Li Changjiang - director of the General Administration for Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine - was addressing the National Inspection
and Quarantine Working Conference held yesterday in the capital of South China's
Guangdong Province.
Thirty-five local inspection and quarantine bureaux and 440 subsidiary
institutes now use electronic and information technology in their work,
according to a source with the Beijing-based General Administration of Customs.
In the first six months of this year, 5.8 million declarations were submitted
to inspection and quarantine institutes at all levels, 5.11 million of which or
88 per cent were submitted electronically.
However, Vice-Premier Wu Yi told the conference that information technology
should be used much more widely, such as in enterprises that do not concentrate
on exports.
An estimated 150 million yuan (US$18 million) has been saved in Guangdong
since the sector adopted information technology in July 2001.
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