Starting from May 1, nine customs authorities in regions covered by the Silk Road Economic Belt, including Urumqi, Qingdao, Zhengzhou and Taiyuan, adopted their own customs integration system, which offers unified services in any of nine offices.
Sun Zhijie, head of the Urumqi customs office, said the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt and Urumqi should put more effort into supporting that role.
Sun sees the region's bonded zones as a way to attract more industries to settle in Xinjiang, which will help the autonomous region further open-up to the world.
Urumqi customs has compiled research reports and policy guides for local companies, briefing them about preferential policies at the functional areas supervised by customs.
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Customs officials speak with workers at a building site. Provided to China Daily |