The General Administration of Customs is redoubling efforts to improve enterprise credit management, in a bid to further strengthen corporate integrity and simplify customs procedures.

GAC has been, for the past decade, promoting and improving its Authorized Economic Operator classification system.

By November 1 this year, the number of customs clearance documents subject to verification at ports will be reduced from 86 to 48. All the documents will be put online for cross-referencing.

Customs, border, and maritime inspections will be integrated into one joint inspection. The oversight model of "two randoms and one disclosure" - random checks by randomly selected inspectors be publicly released - will be practiced in all relevant law enforcement areas.

By the end of this year, the overall customs clearance time will be cut by one third compared with 2017. Specifically, the time of import clearance will be reduced from an average of 97.39 hours to 65 hours, while that of export clearance will be shortened from 12.29 hours to 8.2 hours. It is estimated that by the end of 2021, the average overall clearance time will be cut to 48 hours.

The list of administrative charges at ports will be released before the end of October this year. Compliance costs of containers clearing will be reduced by at least 100 U.S. dollars by the end of this year.

The GAC also promised to further digitalize port logistics information, and promote the "single-window" model that allows one service window to offer multiple services, so as to improve customs clearance capability at border ports.

On average, only 0.47 percent of certified companies go through customs inspection. For others, the average proportion stands at around 3 percent. The credit management system gives easier access to certified entities while discredited companies are subject to stricter customs controls.