Fully understand the serious harm of smuggling and crack down on smuggling crimes

　　　　Smuggling is a kind of illegal and criminal behavior that transcends national boundaries, and it is the object of joint attack by the international community. Fully understanding the serious harm of smuggling and persisting in the anti-smuggling struggle are not only the fundamental requirements for safeguarding the interests of the country and the people, but also the important conditions for maintaining the healthy development of the national economy.
　　　　In recent years, the whole country has actively carried out the anti-smuggling struggle, done a lot of work and achieved remarkable results. Especially after the National Conference on Combating Smuggling in July 1998, all localities launched a massive joint action, concentrated their efforts on investigating a number of major cases and severely punished a number of smugglers, thus effectively curbing the smuggling activities of key commodities, key areas and key channels. According to statistics, the tariff revenue in 1999 was 1,590.6 billion yuan, an increase of 809% over the previous year; In 2000, it reached a record high, reaching 22,421.7 billion yuan, an increase of 40.96% over the previous year; From January to July this year, the tariff revenue was 14,481.4 billion yuan, an increase of 22.29% over the same period last year. This fully shows that through this special struggle, the once rampant smuggling activities have been dealt a strong blow and the import and export order has obviously improved.
　　　　While cracking down on smuggling has made great achievements, we should also see some new characteristics of current smuggling activities: local regionalization and "ant moving" smuggling are quite prominent; Productive raw materials such as textiles, chemical raw materials, refined oil, steel, edible oil and automobiles, communication equipment and cigarettes have become the focus of smuggling; Reselling materials and bonded goods has become a hot spot of smuggling; In the process of import and export of goods, container hiding, transit transportation, false reporting and concealment have become important ways of smuggling; Legal person smuggling is still repeatedly prohibited; Gang smuggling has a clear division of labor, forming a private goods market and sales network; There are more subtle and cunning ways, such as "caisson" dragging, adding floors to the bottom of the ship and organizing "water passengers" entrainment. Group smuggling and looting of private goods occur from time to time.
　　　　The above situation shows that although smuggling activities have been severely cracked down, they are still going on and constantly changing their methods, and there is a hidden danger of resurgence. We must pay attention to this and take effective measures to strengthen comprehensive management.
　　　　We should fully understand the significance of cracking down on smuggling. Combating smuggling is not only an economic issue, but also related to safeguarding national sovereignty. Tariff is an important aspect of national sovereignty. Overflow of smuggling is contempt for state sovereignty, and its consequences will inevitably undermine the implementation of state laws and regulations, encourage selfish departmentalism and decentralism in some localities and units, and damage the unity and integrity of state sovereignty. Secondly, combating smuggling is the need to maintain the overall situation of reform, development and stability. Smuggling can also induce other criminal offences and endanger social stability. Smuggling is closely linked with corruption, which protects smuggling and encourages it, thus corrupting the ranks of cadres and corrupting the social atmosphere. Third, combating smuggling is the need to maintain the order of the socialist market economy. Smuggling activities disrupt the market order, evade taxes, attack law-abiding enterprises, and undermine import and export management policies and fair competition environment. Therefore, combating smuggling is an objective requirement to improve the socialist market economic system.
　　　　We should persistently crack down on illegal and criminal smuggling activities. Because smuggling has complex economic, social and ideological roots, it can’t be solved overnight. In this regard, we should not only establish the idea of long-term operations, but also focus on cracking down on smuggling activities in the new situation. At present, we need to intensify our efforts in the following aspects.
　　　　First, we should focus on import and export trade channels and areas with frequent smuggling cases, and strengthen anti-smuggling work in accordance with the idea of combining crackdown with prevention. Fighting and prevention complement each other, and fighting is a palliative, focusing on afterwards; Prevention is the root cause, and it is important in advance. Only by combining attack with prevention and treating both the symptoms and the root causes can the occurrence of smuggling be reduced. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually establish a law-abiding evaluation system for transit transport enterprises, improve the supervision system, and check and block activities such as unauthorized domestic sales, false verification, false reporting of commodity names, quantity, price, smuggling and smuggling of smuggled goods.
　　　　The second is to strengthen the construction of anti-smuggling institutions and law enforcement teams. Efficient anti-smuggling agencies and high-quality law enforcement teams are important conditions for effectively cracking down on smuggling. To this end, it is necessary to further rationalize the functions of customs, public security, border defense and various regions in combating smuggling activities, clarify the division of labor, support each other, strengthen coordination, form a joint force, and strive to avoid multiple political affairs and shirk each other; It is necessary to do a good job in training, constantly improve the political and professional quality of law enforcement personnel, purify the interior, and severely punish and eliminate corrupt elements; It is necessary to further improve transportation and communication equipment and raise the level of technical equipment. Anti-smuggling is a law enforcement behavior of public officials to perform their functions and safeguard national interests. The necessary funding guarantee is an important prerequisite for fair, honest and effective law enforcement. It is necessary to increase financial input to ensure the need for funds for handling cases. Units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in cracking down on smuggling should be rewarded. At the same time, the provisions of "two lines of revenue and expenditure" must be strictly implemented, and all confiscated income should be turned over to the state treasury, and various forms of revenue and expenditure linkage should be resolutely corrected, so that the anti-smuggling work can eliminate the interference driven by interests.
　　　　The third is to strengthen information and intelligence work. Accurate and timely information is an important condition for the effectiveness of the anti-smuggling work. It is necessary to take information technology as a means to strengthen supervision, establish an electronic monitoring system and realize national networking and inter-departmental interconnection as soon as possible, so that information can be exchanged and shared.
　　　　The fourth is to further mobilize the masses. Relying on the masses is an important guarantee for the effectiveness of anti-smuggling work. It is necessary to carry out anti-smuggling education in the whole society, so that the broad masses of the people can understand the serious harm of smuggling and realize that it is illegal and criminal to tip off information to smugglers, so as to raise the anti-smuggling awareness of the whole people, and everyone consciously resists and actively reports smuggling activities, creating a good social atmosphere for cracking down on smuggling. At the same time, it is necessary to seriously accept reports from the masses, establish a reward system for reporting, improve the reward methods for reporting, and reward those who report meritorious deeds and keep them strictly confidential.
　　　　Fifth, it is necessary to intensify the crackdown and severely punish illegal and criminal smuggling activities. It is an important means to effectively curb smuggling activities to severely punish smuggling criminals according to law. It is necessary to continue to maintain the high-pressure situation of cracking down on smuggling, and resolutely stop the phenomenon that some localities and departments pay more attention to things than arresting people, hide cases, and substitute punishment for punishment. We should continue to concentrate our efforts on cracking down on a number of major cases involving a wide range, huge amounts, bad influence and serious harm, and severely punish a number of ringleaders and recidivists of smuggling activities according to law. It is necessary to intensify the crackdown in accordance with the law, so that smugglers will be punished as they deserve, which will really play a deterrent role. Those who collude with smugglers and act as umbrellas in state organs should be investigated to the end and will not be tolerated. Those who violate discipline should be dealt with seriously, and those who violate the criminal law must be investigated for criminal responsibility.
　　　　The sixth is to improve legislation. At present, the smuggling activities of "ants moving" are getting worse and worse, which is the countermeasures taken by smugglers to evade the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law. To curb the spread of this situation, it is necessary to properly adjust the starting point of smuggling tax evasion, so that smugglers have no time to drill.
　　　　Seventh, we should further study the laws of smuggling activities at home and abroad. To combat smuggling activities, it is necessary to strengthen pertinence and foresight, reduce blindness and randomness, pay attention to summing up anti-smuggling experience, study the characteristics and laws of the sources of smuggled goods, trafficking channels and tools, trading links, improve archives, pay attention to case accumulation, and do a good job in analysis and research, so as to make anti-smuggling work more active, more prominent, more diverse in methods and more obvious in effect.