Recently, a batch of mouse cells imported by Pharmaron (Beijing) New Drug Technology Co., Ltd. completed customs inspection in just 20 minutes at zhongguancun International Biological Reagent Logistics Center in Yizhuang, Beijing. The cells will be used in animal research and development.

Yan Yan, head of quality control at Pharmaron (Beijing) New Drug Technology Co., LTD., said, "In order to enhance the competitiveness of our products and better serve the global fight against COVID-19 and people's health, we have accelerated the pace of research and development, and imported new drug raw materials continuously. The majority of imported goods are special items such as biological reagents, which require high transportation conditions such as temperature control. The efficiency of customs clearance and transportation quality are very critical to the operation of enterprises."

Zhongguancun International Biological Reagent Logistics Center is the first centralized inspection site for special goods of customs in China, known as "the first green channel for import and export of biological reagents in China". Beijing Customs actively responds to the actual needs of enterprises for rapid entry and exit customs clearance of products and raw materials, promotes the implementation of 19 quarantine supervision and customs clearance facilitation policies, innovatively carries out "one-stop" centralized inspection of biological reagents, and realizes the "intelligent approval" and "immediate inspection" of related goods.

The reporter learned that the approval time of the special goods health quarantine has been reduced from the legal 20 working days to 3 to 5 working days; The supply period of biological reagents imported through Zhongguancun International Biological Reagent Logistics Center has been shortened from 1 to 2 months to an average of 1 week.

Since this year, Beijing customs import and export insurance firm to work as a key task, to carry out a new round of promoting cross-border trade facilitation initiative as an opportunity to promote the reform of Beijing optimize business environment version 5.0 as a whole, consolidate the compression results overall customs clearance time, the full implementation of "certification" system reform, sustained release "pipes" reform of dividends, We will add impetus to the development of sophisticated industries such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence and biomedicine, and to the steady improvement of imports and exports.

In the ultra-clean production workshop of an integrated circuit enterprise in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, several sets of imported production equipment worth 30 million US dollars were successfully installed and tested by customs officers. "The precision equipment imported by our company has very high requirements for cleanliness, and the port environment cannot meet the inspection conditions. Thanks to the inspection of Yizhuang Customs, the products were put into production on time." Manager Zong of the company's logistics department was beaming.

So far, in the work of promoting the integration of Beijing's "five Sons" into the new development pattern, the achievements of Beijing Customs focusing on the construction of international science and technology innovation center and facilitating the opening of the whole biomedical industry chain of the "two Districts" have been shown. In the first two months of this year, the total value of imports and exports in Beijing reached 523.88 billion yuan, up 21.7 percent from the same period last year, 8.4 percentage points higher than the national growth rate in the same period. The export of integrated circuits was 3.66 billion yuan, up 42%; Imports of biotechnology and life science and technology-related products reached 3.23 billion yuan and 11.79 billion yuan, up 57.9% and 25.2% respectively. The new generation of information technology industry and the medical and health industry have become important engines to promote regional import and export trade.