The grand graduation ceremony of Customs Administration Seminar for Asian Countries was held on May 28, 2014. Presented at the ceremony were the vice-principle of UIBE, Mr. Liu Ya, the division chief of Education and Training Center of General Administration of Customs, Ms. Chen Lifen, the general Party branch secretary of School of Continuing Education UIBE, Mr. Cui Xinsheng and the vice-dean of School of Continuing Education UIBE, Mr. Shi Xihong. 23 customs officials from 11 countries including Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,Lebanon, Sri Lankaand Maldives attended the ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by the division chief of International Cooperation and Communication Division, Mr. Xia Haiquan.

Vice-principle Liu Yacongratulated the students on finishing the 21-day seminar on behalf of UIBE, and affirmed their achievements during their study in China. He also showed his gratitude to them for their cooperation and support. He awarded the students the graduation certificates from the Ministry of Commerce and Honored Alumni Certificates.



(Vice-principle Liu Ya was awardingcerificates.)

Mr. ChamaraHasanthaKaushalya from Sri Lanka Customs gave speeches on behalf of the students. He showed his gratitude towards the Ministry of Commerce and UIBE, and commended the team upon their hard work.


(Student representative was giving a speech.)

This foreign-aid program was hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, and organized by our university. The seminar was combined with fieldtrip, which emphasized the importance of on-site research and communication. During this seminar, officials had fieldtrips to institutions such as the General Administration of Customs, Customs Museum and the Information Center of Customs.

On May 19, all of the officials went to Guangzhou Nansha Customs for fieldtrip. The division chief of Customs Education Department, Mr. Huang Pu, and the customs director of Nansha customs Mr. ZhongJiuhua had a discussion with the officials. Mr. ZhongJiuhua gave an introduction of the general situation of Nansha customs. Nansha customs belongs to Guangzhou Customs, and it is a subordinate customs combining site clearance and area management.Its business jurisdictionis over the center of the Pearl River Delta, and it is located in the core parts of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao economic circle. There are many supervision sites within the management scope of Nansha customs, which is the pioneer in reform and innovation of Guangzhou customs business as well as the key area for Guangzhou customs business development. After that, the staff accompanied the officials to visit the NanshaCustoms declaration hall, the container export manual inspection system and the Nansha Port Free Trade Zone. In the afternoon of the same day, they visited Guangzhou TOYOTA Automobile Co., ltd..


(Meeting at Nansha Customs.)

Our seminar accepted strong support from the General Administration of Customs and Guangzhou Nansha Customs. The officials indicated that, this seminar not only enhanced their understanding of Chinese customs, society, economy and culture, and increase Asian countries’ confidence in cooperation in customs and other fields.


(group photo)