This year's government work report mentioned for the first time the concept of "smart customs", clearly stating the need to accelerate the construction of the international logistics system, build a smart customs, and assist foreign trade enterprises in reducing costs and improving efficiency. Why build a smart customs? What conveniences will smart customs bring to foreign trade enterprises and people's lives? How to further promote the construction of smart customs? The relevant person in charge of the General Administration of Customs introduced the relevant situation at the regular press conference held on the 14th. The development of foreign trade requires technological progress and support. "Building a smart customs is not only the responsibility of the customs, but also related to the overall situation." Lin Shaobin, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Business Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that customs located on the front line of the country have a mission to maintain national security and promote economic and social development. Based on the new situation and new tasks, accelerating the construction of smart customs on the basis of previous reforms mainly considers three aspects: first, the new situation poses new challenges to customs supervision. As the world's largest country in goods trade, China's customs have a wide range of responsibilities, a long regulatory chain, and diverse regulatory objects, which pose great pressure and challenges in maintaining national security. At the same time, enterprises have an urgent need for maximizing customs clearance convenience, reducing trade costs, and ensuring import and export quality. The requirements for regulatory efficiency and professional law enforcement are also increasing, and more intelligent regulatory concepts, methods, and means are needed to implement coordinated development and safety requirements. Secondly, new technologies have brought new opportunities for the modernization of customs. In recent years, smart innovation centered on data has driven changes in social production methods, the reconstruction of production relations, breakthrough productivity growth, and significant changes in lifestyles, as well as profound changes in international trade patterns. The rapid development of a series of new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things has provided new ways and means as well as strong technical support for customs supervision services. Thirdly, the new mission has raised new expectations for the customs to take on. Customs around the world are actively exploring effective ways to achieve customs modernization. China's customs supervision has the largest volume of goods, the most diverse scenarios, and the most complete models. We have the conditions and responsibilities to transform the advantage of volume into the advantage of intelligent practice, explore and form an effective customs supervision service system and mechanism that has positive significance for global customs, and promote smoother, more convenient, and safer global trade. "We believe that at the current stage, there is demand for foreign trade development, support for technological progress, and expectations for customs development." Lin Shaobin said that Chinese customs will actively embrace the trend of the times, with digital transformation and intelligent upgrading as the core, accelerate the construction of smart customs, and better promote high-level opening and high-quality development. How to further integrate cross line and cross departmental business processing processes to continuously improve regulatory efficiency and maximize enterprise convenience? How to gradually achieve synchronous supervision of health quarantine and luggage items? How can consumers be more secure when shopping on cross-border e-commerce platforms With the continuous development of China's foreign trade, foreign trade enterprises and the people have various demands for customs services. Foreign trade enterprises directly deal with customs, and have the most direct feeling and voice on whether the construction of smart customs is good or not, and whether it is convenient or not. Du Hongwei, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Business Department of the General Administration of Customs, stated that the construction of a smart customs fully absorbs and considers factors from the foreign trade industry