The Subject Research For Lhasa Customs Border Smuggling Governance Difficulty

Smuggling is a kind of illegal and criminal behavior across borders, and it is the object of the international community to jointly combat. Anti-smuggling is not only the economic problem, but the matter concerning overall situation of reform, development and stability. Especially in the remote areas with minorities of Tibet, carrying out the struggle against smuggling unremittingly is an important condition to keep the healthy development of national economy, as well as the basic requirement to safeguard the interests of the nation and people. As the supervision and management organization of borderers’ trade and law enforcement against Smuggling, Lhasa customs’ governance of marginal people’ smuggling is related to the functions of the customs, the normal order of import and export trade in frontier area, and the good situation of Tibetan stability and unity. However, with the restriction of the geographical environment, economic development level, marginal people’ consciousness, Lhasa customs is faced with many difficulties in control of border.Combined with the overall goals of deepening reform of improving national governance system and modernizing management ability at 18 th Party Congress, as well as general secretary, Xi Jinping’ instruction that rule will cure, cure edge to hide, Lhasa customs wants to shift the way of thinking and make a difference in governance issues for border smuggling. The paper focuses on the difficulty in Lhasa customs’ management to border smuggling. Guided by the theory of public policy, integrated use of literature study, investigation and system research, based on the research of goods type, cause, damage measures of border smuggling in the border area of Tibet, the paper summaries governance pattern; it analyses problems of that Lhasa customs govern border smuggling, for instance, the inconsonant coordination of anti-smuggling unit members, unfulfillment of relative policy, shortage of customs control power, definition in border smuggling, failure in prohibition of smuggling. There are five reasons about these problems. First, subjective factors caused failure prohibition border smuggling. Second, performance evaluation of local government is not scientific. Third, management of smuggling is lack of incentive mechanism. Otherwise, it is difficult for customs to play a role in function of supervision. Finally, the legal concept that the entity is more important than procedure shifts. Foreign trade in neighboring countries is less developed. The paper proposes realistic and constructive approach of Lhasa customs’ management to border smuggling through governance framework from Tibet to the whole country, accomplishment of the unified leadership of the government, perfection of functions of the customs smuggling governance, and improvement of the legal system for smuggling. Moreover, it specially puts forward constructive way of Lhasa customs’ governance to border smuggling, which provides theoretical support for construction of the actual border smuggling governance system suitable for frontier area such as Tibetan, reinforce of management the inbound and outbound goods customs of border area, staff management, administration of border trade and strike of smuggling.