A team headed by Lin Zhen, Head of Education Department of Huangpu Customs, visited UIBE on May 7, 2015. Deputy President Yang Changchun greeted them in the administrative building and gave them warm welcome. Director Lin presented his thanks to President Yang’s reception, as well as his excitement of being back to his Alma Mater. He hoped to have more cooperation with UIBE. Secretary Teng Yun from School of Public Administration accompanied President Yang during the reception.
Then Director Lin’s team went to School of Public Administration to discuss cooperation issues on MPA project. Professor Fan Libo, Dean of the school, greeted the visiting team, and particularly showed his cordial greetings to Director Lin, who is the alumnus of Customs Major of the school. Dean Fan also invited Director Lin to attend the 40-year anniversary party of School of Public Administration on May 30.
Director Lin expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of Dean Fan, Secretary Teng Yun, Professor Wang Shuwen and lecturer Chen Zhe. He felt proud of being an alumnus, and would be honored to come to the 40-year anniversary celebration. Then, Director Lin introduced the background and business of Huangpu Customs. He said the Party in Huangpu Customs attached high attention to staff training and advanced education, and the purpose of this visit was strengthening MPA talents training and establishing further cooperation with School of Public Administration.
Dean Fan highly praised the value of talents training of Huangpu Customs, and noted that the school will fully cooperate with the Customs to strengthen MPA training.
This meeting enhanced mutual understanding and created more cooperation opportunities for Huangpu Customs and School of Public Administration. The Alumni Association also paid much attention and supports to this meeting, which showed the Alumni Association and talents training related departments were working closely.
The Customs of the People’s Republic of China is the administrative authority for import and export supervision, with the three-level vertical management system of General Administration of Customs-Regional Customs Office-Subsidiaries. General Administration of Customs, a ministerial organization subordinated to the State Council, is the highest leading authority of all the customs offices, managing all the customs offices throughout the country.
There are totally 46 customs offices directly subordinated to the Customs, including the branch office in Guangdong, representative offices in Tianjin and Shanghai, 41 direct subsidiaries, and 2 Customs academies. Besides, there are 600 subordinate customs and offices and about 4000 customs clearance supervision stations. There are about 50,000 customs officials (including police of customs suppress smuggling) in China.
Huangpu Customs is one of the seven direct subordinates in Guangdong. Its predecessor is the registration station of Yue Customs in Guangdong, set by Qing Government in AD 1685, changed into Huangpu branch custom in 1949 after the establishment of People’s Republic of China, directly subordinated to General Administration of Customs in July, 1980, promoted as vice-ministerial organization in August, 1988, and promoted as ministerial organization in November, 2000. Now, Huangpu Customs has many departments, 1 vice-ministerial department (Department of Suppress Smuggling), 2 direct subordinates, and 11 department level subsidiary customs and offices. There are totally more than 3500 officials in Huangpu Customs, making it the fourth biggest customs national widely.
