Discussion From The Perspective Of The Organizational Structure To Build The Customs Supervision System

In recent years, China Customs has outgrown its current regulatory system, which threatens to be a bottleneck in China's economic development, as result of an accelerating globalization and a rapidly growing trade between China and rest of the world since the introduction of the opening-up policy and, in particular, China's accession to the WTO.Confronted with a tough undertaking to integrate its fragmented and decentralized regulatory system, the General Administration of Customs has worked out the so-called basic guideline of General Regulation System. It is to be oriented towards effective regulation, focused on risk management, molded in general regulation and integrated operation.It is in this context, and in the author's understanding through my years of experience in customs and my work in public administration, that the thesis is written to examine the organization of China's current customs offices and the drawbacks in its regulatory efficiency, in the hope of coming up with some positive solutions and policy recommendations.The first point made in the thesis is the limitations in the organization of China's current customs system by going back to the several reforms in the past and examining the different levels in its management and distribution of power among different functions.Based on the theory of organization and management, the thesis has presented its solutions and policy recommendations to help integrate the available resources, improve the management system, optimize the management processes and mechanisms, and promote the regulatory efficiency and satisfy the demand for a general and integrated regulatory system.