Hong Kong: Inside the export inspection area at the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a 55-kilometer-long mega sea-crossing span in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, intelligent machines are sorting e-commerce goods daily.
Batches of e-commerce goods flow through the machines, with inspection officers carefully examining export documents and comparing them with scans produced by the machine.
If a scan reveals something questionable, customs officers open and inspect the packages of goods. According to the bridge customs supervision department, it takes less than one hour to complete an inspection of a batch of parcels.
Customs statistics showed that the export value of goods transported through the cross-border e-commerce management platform at the bridge’s port from January to October reached 48.66 billion yuan ($6.82 billion), a year-on-year increase of 72.1 percent.
The bridge port covers the import and export of goods for all 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions on the Chinese mainland. The market involves over 230 countries and regions, an increase from 105 in 2018.
In 2022 alone, the import and export volume via the bridge’s Zhuhai port increased 96.1 percent year-on-year to 269.73 billion yuan, the bridge customs said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
