On-the-spot Report of the 10th Anniversary of the Reform of Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station
Zhou Xiaodong, Shanghai Channel of Xinhuanet reported on October 17th that Shanghai Port is one of the largest and earliest ports opened to the outside world approved by the State Council, and enjoys the reputation of "China’s first airport". Established in 1998, Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station is responsible for frontier inspection of entry-exit personnel and means of transportation at Shanghai Port. After ten years’ experience, Shanghai border inspectors have taken a reform road of developing through inheritance and innovating through development.
In 2007, Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station inspected more than 19.5 million entry-exit personnel, 4.9 times that of 1998. The number of people entering and leaving Shanghai Airport has ranked first in the national airport for nine consecutive years. In the past ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has inspected more than 113.28 million entry-exit personnel, ranking first in the country. Among them, the number of foreign passengers inspected accounts for more than a quarter of the national total, ranking first in the country. More than 740,000 flights of inbound and outbound aircraft were inspected, ranking first in the country. 177,309 international ships were inspected and 1,553 Shanghai-Hong Kong trains were inspected.
Inheriting the glorious brand of professional reform
Fifty years of vicissitudes and great changes, half a century of spring and autumn. On January 4th, 1952, the East China Military and Political Commission of People’s Republic of China (PRC) set up the "Shanghai Frontier Inspection Station" in Shanghai, which was responsible for the frontier inspection at the Shanghai port, ending the history of "having borders without defenses" in Shanghai. In the following forty years, Jinshan, Wusong, Waigaoqiao and Hongqiao border checkpoints were established one after another.
With a flick of a finger, history ushered in a new opportunity. On July 1, 1998, according to the spirit of the State Council’s reply, the Shanghai Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station was formally established, with a deputy department-level system, directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security, and all personnel were changed from active military personnel to professional people’s police, thus the Shanghai border inspection team entered a brand-new development stage. The sense of overall situation and sense of responsibility passed down from the original army made Shanghai border inspectors devote all their enthusiasm to their new posts as always. Time flies, with the glorious brand of the national guard. In just ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has successively set up Pudong Border Inspection Station, Railway Border Inspection Station and Yangshan Border Inspection Station, and the number of border inspection stations under the main station has increased from five before the transformation to eight. The service area covers 105 docks and 429 berths in Pudong and Hongqiao International Airports, Shanghai Railway Station and Shanghai Port. The coastline of the harbor is 470 Li long.
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Follow the footsteps of history and forge ahead. How long is the road of ten years? Shanghai border inspectors are not afraid of difficulties, and how far is the pace of hard work.
In 1999, when the first phase of Pudong Airport was completed, the designed annual passenger flow was 20 million, of which the designed annual international passenger flow was 4.5 million. In fact, by 2004, the annual international passenger flow of Pudong Airport reached more than 12 million passengers, nearly three times the designed annual passenger flow. Faced with the situation and pressure, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has been exploring for breakthroughs, actively contacting relevant parties and expanding the passenger waiting area. Around their own potential, maximize the existing police force to deal with major border security tasks. In October, 2001, all the police in Shanghai Border Inspection Station fought hard and fulfilled their mission, successfully completing the border inspection security task of the world-renowned APEC meeting. In October 2002, Shanghai Border Inspection Station ushered in a major adjustment in border inspection service since the vocational reform. In order to meet the needs of aviation hub port construction, all international, Hong Kong and Macao flights that took off and landed at the former Hongqiao International Airport moved eastward to the newly built Pudong International Airport. Under the guidance of the superior, the frontier inspection station has repeatedly brewed and carefully formulated a set of implementation plans to ensure the smooth handover of the frontier inspection work after moving eastward. On January 26th, 2003, with the first Taiwanese Spring Festival charter flight flying over the Taiwan Province Strait to Pudong Airport, the ice of direct cross-strait flights for more than 50 years will be broken at this moment. As a witness of this historic moment, the Shanghai border inspector undertook the border inspection task of this Taiwanese charter flight. Facing the new challenges, Shanghai Border Inspection Station successfully completed its task again under the guidance of its superiors.It has been fully affirmed by the Taiwan Affairs Office, the Exit-Entry Administration of the Ministry of Public Security and the city leaders. Up to now, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has inspected 388 chartered flights by Taiwanese businessmen, providing high-quality and efficient customs clearance services for more than 81,800 passengers.
In recent years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has been focusing on improving the service level, insisting on customs clearance efficiency and strict control, and has handed over satisfactory answers for arduous tasks again and again. It has successfully completed the entry and exit frontier inspection tasks of a series of major international conferences and activities, such as the Shanghai Annual Meeting of the Fortune Forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, the 35th Annual Meeting of ADB, the 12th Special Olympic Games and the Beijing Olympic Games, and made positive contributions to the country’s reform, opening up and economic construction. During the APEC meeting and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, Shanghai Border Inspection Station was awarded Class II by the Ministry of Public Security respectively.
Strengthen the police with science and technology and build a good soldier at the port
Ten years of take-off cannot be separated from the wings of science and technology. Shanghai Border Inspection Station adheres to the principle of "strengthening police through science and technology" and continuously increases investment in scientific and technological equipment. Since the vocational reform, the main station has invested more than 70 million yuan in science and technology. More than 2,000 computers and nearly 200 vehicles were distributed to the grassroots. The grass-roots front line is equipped with the world’s advanced document inspection instrument, which greatly improves the technical content and identification ability of false and false documents. According to the passenger flow analysis system, the airport border inspection station scientifically deployed police to ensure the smooth completion of the entry-exit border inspection task under the situation of large numbers of people entering and leaving. The construction of "digital service" has been strengthened and standardized at seaport border checkpoints and railway border checkpoints. Through the three-dimensional service management mode of "TV monitoring+mobile patrol+limited area", the management and control ability of port entry and exit activities has been further enhanced. The information query system software of border inspection documents jointly developed fills the gap in the field of passport documents query in China’s border inspection system.
Chen Jian, a policeman at Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station, was deeply impressed by the strong police through science and technology. "I was one of the first policemen to patrol the dock in a police car!" , he all proudly recalled, "I remember the first time I drove a police car to patrol the dock, many foreign crew members came out to see us. In their eyes, China border police patrolled the dock on foot and by bike. At present, the conditions of our border inspection are getting better and better, and electronic monitoring equipment has been put into use at every seaport and port, which completely changed the "one ship, one post" international navigation ship monitoring mode in the early 1990s. As witnesses, we are also sincerely proud of our profession! "
The pace of Shanghai border inspectors climbing the peak of science and technology has never stopped. In March 2006, Shanghai Border Inspection Station fully launched the "Golden Shield Project" project "Meisha System" of the Ministry of Public Security at the port, which made the informationization level of Shanghai border inspection work reach the international advanced level. Through this powerful core command system, the two-level duty disposal mode of the main station and the border inspection station has been optimized, and the joint duty of sea, land and air ports has been realized in the national border inspection organs, and a criss-crossing port management and control network has been carefully woven. In the past ten years, the main station has seized more than 4,600 cases of smuggling, with more than 6,000 person-times, and received and handled more than 30,000 repatriated persons. The increasing strength of "strengthening the police through science and technology" has really improved the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai border inspection team.
Practicing internal strength hard and strengthening the quality of police
Ten years of change, things have changed. The harvest lies not only in the innovation of technical equipment, but also in the improvement of personnel quality, which is the greatest wealth of the ten-year job reform and the source of the vigorous development of border inspection.
In the past ten years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has always insisted on carrying out the police training plan based on quality education, the standardization of grass-roots teams and various forms of on-the-job training, which has greatly improved the overall quality and professional skills of the team. At present, 100% of the police have achieved college education or above, and all 35 grass-roots teams have achieved standardization. Since the restructuring in 1998, the Central Station has recruited more than 1,000 local college students who are interested in border inspection to enrich the team and constantly optimize the quality structure of the team. As a new force in the team of college students’ police, the main station pays attention to professional navigation and vigorously cultivates professionalism and dedication. With the training of organizations and their own efforts, many people have grown into professional backbones in their posts. In recent years, Shanghai Border Inspection Station has sent seven policemen to participate in UN peacekeeping missions. Organized business experts to give business lectures overseas for many times. More than 200 collectives and more than 1,500 policemen have been commended by various levels and types. A large number of advanced models, such as Nie Rendong, a national super-excellent people’s policeman, and Chen Peihong, a red flag bearer in Shanghai, have emerged in the ranks, and the anti-smuggling experts fighting at the front line of the port are well-known at home and abroad.
A teacher who is determined to forge ahead.
With the support and guidance of their superiors, Shanghai border inspectors have pioneered the national border defense system and the Ninth Border Inspection Station again and again, and achieved the first time and again.
In January 1999, Wusong Border Inspection Station started to use electronic monitoring equipment, which completely changed the "one ship, one post" international navigation ship monitoring mode in China.
On January 1, 2000, the 48-hour transit visa-free policy was implemented in some countries, which further simplified the customs clearance procedures for transit passengers.
In August, 2001, the "Entry Passage for China Citizens" was first set up in China, which greatly enhanced the sense of honor of China citizens.
In September 2006, the supporting commercial housing "Baojingyuan" project was launched, which completely solved the housing difficulties of more than 1,000 police officers without housing in the main station.
In May 2008, the inspector grading system was initiated, which provided a new mechanism guarantee for promoting the sustainable development of the team and improving the level of border inspection services.
In 2008, the civilian staff openly recruited by the general station went to work, replacing the front-line police with civilian staff as auxiliary work, and boldly embarked on a brand-new road for China’s border inspection organs to revitalize the police force.
Phoenix nirvana is the sublimation of the realm, and the reproduction of history is in line with the development of the situation. On September 29th, 2007, under the care of Premier Wen Jiabao, the international flight of Hongqiao Airport officially resumed, and eight routes between Japan and South Korea were opened. The police at Hongqiao Border Inspection Station once again performed their duty of guarding the country. They gave this 44-year-old border inspection station a new life with a brand-new service concept. The T2 terminal in Pudong has been completed, designed to handle 60 million passengers at home and abroad every year, and the first-class environmental facilities have created a new landmark of Shanghai’s air gateway. Frontier inspection facilities are more perfect and humanized, with 144 new border inspection channels. It is estimated that the number of international passengers will reach more than 27 million by 2010.
Yang Xiangda, the chief stationmaster of Shanghai Border Inspection Station, commented on this team when he reviewed the stormy course of the ten-year reform of Shanghai Border Inspection: "The ten-year reform is not only a change in hardware facilities, but more importantly, a change in the mental outlook of our Shanghai border inspectors, and an improvement in the overall quality of our team. There are both inheritance and development, and we have inherited the tenacious tradition of the army and made new progress in our understanding of service. This can be said to be the professional characteristics and spirit of our Shanghai border inspectors. After ten years of sharpening a sword, today, we have a team that can fight hard, a team full of honor and responsibility. Such a team is the guarantee for us to meet all challenges and win hard battles! "
With the continuous acceleration of the construction of "four firsts" and "four centers" in Shanghai, history has put forward brand-new requirements for the level and efficiency of border inspection work. In 2008, Shanghai Border Inspection Station, under the leadership of its superiors, successfully completed the border inspection and security tasks for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2010, the Shanghai World Expo has set the largest number of participating countries and will attract more than 200 countries and international organizations and more than 70 million domestic and foreign tourists. Shoulder the glorious mission of showing Chinese civilization and welcoming guests from all over the world. According to the overall deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai Border Inspection Station is making great strides towards the goal of building the best administrative law enforcement team in China and the service level entering the advanced ranks in the world!
Editor: Wang Jiaolong