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Shanghai
Customs College (SCC) is a regular institution for higher education,
sanctioned by the Ministry of Education of the People’s
Republic of China and directly affiliated to the General Administration
of China Customs (GACC). Established in 1953, its time-honored
history could be traced back to the Peking-based “Customs
College” founded in 1908 and renamed the Shanghai-based
“Customs College” subsequently. In March 2007 the
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
officially established Shanghai Customs College which evolved
from the former Shanghai Customs Junior College. At present,
SCC is the unique center of higher learning which comprehensively
covers professional curriculums in the line of customs administration.
As a financial and economic regular
college mainly engaged in the science of management, economics
and law, Shanghai Customs College has set up a number of undergraduate
majors with the approval of the Ministry of Education , besides
the majors for junior college including Customs Management and
International Customs Treaties and Conventions. There are totally
about 1,500 students enrolled. Rooted in customs administration,
SCC is committed to training multi-dimensional and applied customs
functionaries as well as qualified staffs in the business world,
including areas of international trade, logistics and customs
brokerage, to meet the demands of a modern society and its economic
development. SCC is also to pool its efforts toward the continuing
education, knowledge updating and professional on-the-job training
of the intermediate-level and ranking Customs officials. In
addition, according to the protocol under the World Customs
Organization (WCO) and the requirement of the Asia-Pacific regions,
SCC is now gradually assuming the international obligations
to train the customs officers from the region.
Shanghai Customs College is located
in the Pudong New District of Shanghai, covering an area of
about 35 hectares. According to the establishment criteria of
the regular institutions of higher education required by the
Ministry of Education, SCC is equipped with cutting-edge facilities,
which encompass modern teaching and learning building, library,
ATM Campus Net, classroom with multi-media teaching device,
digital reading room, audio and visual lab, entertainment building,
tennis court, swimming pool and gym, as well as full-range of
accommodations for trainees including 55 suites, 130 standard
rooms and 253 single rooms. All of these facilities create a
pleasant learning and living environment for students and trainees.
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| Nature and History |
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Shanghai Customs
College(SCC)is subordinate to the Customs General Administration of
the People's Republic of China.The college traces its origin to Beijing
Taxation School which,founded in 1908,served as an important base
for the taining of high-ranking Customs executives as well as various
Customs professionals with a view to regaining autonomy of China's
Customs service.The Ministry of Foreign Trade formally set up Shanghai
Customs School in September,1953 after the birth of new China.The
school was, granted by the State Counil,upgraded to an institution
of higher learning in May,1980.With the approval of the State Educational
Commission, the college officially changed its name to Shanghai Customs
College in April, 1996.To gear to the ever-developing Customs service
and the ever-increasing demand for a highly qualified and well proportioned
government public managerial contingents for the 21st century,China's
Customs GeneralAdministration decided to build a brand-new Customs
college in Pudong New Area.With the termination of the first phase
of the construction project, the SCC moved to its new situation in
August,1997,marking the formal removal of the SCC to Pudong from its
original site in Feng Yang Road.The Party Committee of the Customs
General Administration decided in October,2000 to move Customs Administrative
Cadre's College(later named Shanghai Customs Administration institute)in
Guangdong Province to the site of the new campus in Pudong,Shanghai.Starting
from September,2001,the two college officialy meerged under the unified
Administration of one leading body.
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| Functions and Commitments |
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The Shanghai
Customs College and Shanghai Customs Administration institue are mostly
committed to the training and turning out of high-level technical
professionals and experts, to the exploration and study of Customs
theories, and, to the conducting of international exchanges with world
organizations and foreign Customs estabilshments. The collede is also
fully dedicated to the continuing education of Customs personnel at
high and intermediate levels.It offers in-service refresher courses
and courses on specific subjects.Meanwhile, the college commits itself
to the training of intermediate and high-level
professionals in the field of modern logistics and Customs brokerage
for the benefit of society at large.Keeping in line with WCO principles
of partnership and sharing resposibility and meeting the specific
needs of various Customs services in the Asian-Pacific region, the
college offers training programmes for Customs official from member
Customs services in this region in a bid to do our bit in the international
arena.
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| Situation and Environment |
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The SCC is
located at 5677,Hua Xia Road(west),Pudong New Area, Shanghai.To be
a part of the middle ringroad according to the blue-print of Shanghai
municipality, Hua Xia Road is to be constructed into a 100-meter wide
fast traffic lane by 2005, which will make it extremely easy to travel
to and from the college, that is, it will be a matter of 25 and 30
minutes respectively to get from the college to Pudong International
Airport and Hong Qiao International Airport via car. The new Pudong
campus is of considerable dimensions with an area of aroud 27 hectares.To
cater to teaching,research and extra-curriculum activeties, the college
erect-ed a modern classroom building, a top-notch library and a multi-functional
tower with a total floor space of over 50,000 square metres.Greenery
is up to 50% of the whole campus.
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| In Relation to the WCO |
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The 15th of
September, 2000 saw the visit of the college by Mr. Danei, Secretary
General of the WCO. During his visit, Mr. Danei first gave an impressive
speech to the students in the International Lecture Hall of the college.
Then, with the company of the college authorities, Mr. Danei walked
round the campus and saw with great interested the teaching facilities
at the college.
On 25th, November, 2002, together with his
wife, Mr. Lempiainen, director of the Directorate of Compliance and
Facilitation of the WCO came to inspect the college, too. Accompanied
by Mr. Yu Shen, President of the college, Mr. Lempianinen was shown
the college¡¯s teaching and training facilities and the student dorms.
Mr. Lempianinen also witnessed the stamina-building class, talked
in person to the trainees of the Customs Valuation Advanced English
Class, and, answered the students¡¯ question. After his visit of the
campus, Mr. Lempianianen concluded that the training facilities at
the college are well advanced and the college is in every way ready
to take up the regional training responsibilities of the WCO.
The college has laid great emphasis on the
introduction of advanced ideology and technology to the college in
the past 20 years or so. It has invited over 20 expert missions either
from international organizations or from foreign Customs Houses to
give lectures or hold seminars at the college. These expert missions
include American anti-drug experts; EU law experts; Customs procedure
experts from the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia and Trade experts
from Belgium, South Korea, India, etc. At different times, foreign
Customs experts have held at the college symposiums on Customs procedures
and topics concerning the WTO and other issues of international concern.
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