Rings mai cooperation is the lancang - Mekong river basin the six countries (China, Cambodia, Laos, myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), discuss the new sub-regional cooperation mechanism of the co-construction and sharing, as well as high quality important platform to build "area", has been developing rapidly since the launch in 2016, remarkable achievements, to enhance mutual trust, the six countries made a positive contribution to promoting regional prosperity and stability. Since the launch of the LMC six years ago, the General Administration of Customs has earnestly implemented general Secretary Xi Jinping's vision of "Jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind", actively implemented the spirit of the Five-year Action Plan for Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (2018-2022) and other important cooperation documents. China has deepened exchanges and cooperation with its counterparts in the five Mekong countries on quarantine access, capacity building and anti-smuggling law enforcement, and promoted the level of inspection and quarantine cooperation among the customs of lancang-Mekong countries.

               Promote access to agricultural food products to promote common development. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that China will "unswervingly share market opportunities with the world and promote high-level opening-up." In recent years, the General Administration of Customs of high quality characteristic agricultural food products actively promote the Mekong river countries access to China, to overcome the outbreak of new crown, innovation of the remote video inspection ways instead of traditional field assessment, plans to China agricultural risk analysis work, strong support of the Mekong river countries high quality agricultural products, food, expanding exports to China. At present, nearly 400 agricultural food products from Mekong countries, including fruits, vegetables, cereals, meat, aquatic products, nuts, dairy products, bird's nests and Chinese medicinal materials, have been traded with China. It will not only enrich the domestic consumer market, but also contribute to the agricultural development of Mekong countries and the increase of incomes and poverty alleviation of farmers.

           Build capacity building brand, grow together hand in hand. Since 2019, with the support of the Asian Cooperation Fund (ACF), the General Administration of Customs has been actively preparing the Cooperation Program on Capacity Building of Customs and Inspection and Quarantine Technologies in Lancang-Mekong Countries and the Cooperation Program on Promoting customs Clearance Efficiency in Lancang-Mekong Countries and Capacity Building of Sub-regional Agricultural trade Development. Among them, "Lancang-Mekong Countries Customs and Inspection and Quarantine Technology Capacity Building Cooperation Project" was successfully held online from June to November 2021. The online and offline interactive teaching mode of "expert lecture + exchange and discussion + cloud visit" was innovatively adopted to focus on the key concerns of Mekong countries. There were three training courses on animal disease management, capacity building for the prevention and control of cross-border transmission of infectious diseases, facilitation of customs clearance, and one seminar on Customs policy connectivity. From rings mae countries a total of 342 areas such as customs, agriculture, health officials participated in the training and seminars, and through the precise focus, fine courses and elaborate, harvest the students positive evaluation and enthusiastic responses, establish brand, the customs ability construction characteristics strongly promote healthy development of the regional trade and multilateral economic and trade cooperation. "To promote the countries along the lancang - Mekong river customs clearance efficiency enhancing capacity building and sub-regional agricultural trade development cooperation project" will be implemented within 2022 years, trade facilitation will set the customs and inspection and quarantine technology two training courses, improve the capacity invited billow mae officials to participate in the national customs, inspection and quarantine areas, common on courses to learn and communicate.

            We will deepen cooperation in anti-smuggling law enforcement and strengthen common governance. In order to effectively combat the smuggling of drugs and endangered wildlife and maintain the security and convenience of regional trade, since 2018, The Customs of China and Vietnam, with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Customs Organization's Regional Intelligence Liaison Center for Asia and the Pacific (RILO), Has launched three periods in the region "mae dragon" war on drugs and smuggling endangered species of wild fauna and flora and its products international joint action, as the rings mae cooperation and china-asean cooperation mechanism under the customs law enforcement cooperation important results, effectively combat and deter regional endangered species of wild fauna and flora and its products and drug smuggling crime, become a model of customs cooperation projects in the asia-pacific region. Since the launch of the operation, 1,316 criminal cases of endangered wildlife and its products and drug trafficking have been uncovered, 427 tons of endangered wildlife and its products, 25 tons of drugs and 129 kilograms of precursor chemicals have been seized. In addition, China's customs and the Mekong river countries continue to deepen the anti-smuggling law enforcement cooperation, effective implementation of the whole chain to crack down on cross-border environmental crime, the gain of the international community is widely recognized and highly affirmation, in November 2021, the General Administration of Customs anti-smuggling bureau joint parks in Singapore, huangpu customs anti-smuggling bureau joint Thailand, Vietnam customs law enforcement cooperation awards won the Asian environment, Further highlight and deepen the effectiveness of customs law enforcement cooperation under the LANCang-Mekong Cooperation framework.

Article source: General Administration of Customs