Last year, the Customs verified 210000 tons of smuggled rice. Some grain farmers buy low and sell high.

Yunnan: build bridges and take ships to brazenly smuggle rice into the country

CCTV Finance (Reporter Yi Zeke) yesterday, the General Administration of Customs announced to the public the results of the 2014 "green wind" special action by the customs across the country to crack down on the smuggling of agricultural products. In 2014, customs across the country put on file and investigated 13316 cases of smuggling of agricultural products, worth 44.898 billion yuan, suspected of evading 9.282 billion yuan in taxes. Among them, in cracking down on rice smuggling, 467 criminal and administrative cases of rice smuggling were seized, worth 1.255 billion yuan, involving a tax of 466 million yuan, and 210100 tons of smuggled rice were verified.

One night in September last year, the reporter accompanied anti-smuggling officers in the process of investigating the Sino-Vietnamese border in the estuary of Yunnan Province. At least 200 Vietnamese were busy nervously at the scene, carrying bags of goods into the country from the other side of the river. After the reporter filmed for about a minute and a half, the two border residents suddenly realized what was wrong. Their first reaction was that the Chinese Customs had come to crack down on smuggling. Just after they left the ship, the nervous and orderly handling team quickly dispersed the birds and animals.

If these Vietnamese border residents are still afraid of Chinese customs anti-smuggling officers, then the smugglers on the Sino-Burmese border in Ruili are blatant. Although it is during the day, smuggling here has not stopped at all. Each ferry carries a truck full of smuggled rice, which is quickly smuggled into the country.

Kunming Customs anti-smuggling police: those trucks are suspected of smuggling, directly use the ferry, pull the car to the ferry, pull the car to the ferry, park it to the opposite side, shorten the transportation time, but also shorten our inspection time.

Family gangs operate multi-gangs and multi-lines remotely to carry out smuggling

Not only does it take a short time to smuggle into the country, but it is very difficult to investigate. The anti-smuggling officers also told us that these smugglers are fighting guerrillas with customs anti-smuggling personnel every day, and as long as vehicles or personnel suspected of customs appear nearby, they will specially read the aquarium tips. these smugglers will evacuate quickly. So how do customs officers carry out the investigation?

In fact, as early as early April 2014, the Yunnan Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau obtained clues about this smuggling gang from several channels. However, the gang hiding behind these smugglers has been slow to show up. In order to find out the chain of smuggling, the reporter followed the customs anti-smuggling personnel to track and investigate these smuggled vehicles.

The freight yard in Kaiyuan, Yunnan Province is a must for one of the routes. Because drivers need to weigh here and get paid for their weight. Many links, such as the supply of goods from abroad, smuggling into the country, and domestic transportation, are operated by completely different gangs, and the core members of the gang have never appeared. However, with these overweight bills in exchange for commission, anti-smuggling officers found clues.

Li Mao, deputy commander of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of Kunming Customs: a family-style smuggling gang headed by Yang, mainly smuggling grain such as rice and corn, is under remote control behind the scenes, and the members of this gang take the family as the backbone members. There are father, mother, son and daughter-in-law.

On September 18, 2014, Kunming Customs dispatched more than 400 anti-smuggling police to arrest at the same time in Dali, Hekou, Ruili and Kunming, arrested 15 major suspects such as Yang, and seized about 320 tons of smuggled rice and 42 tons of corn at the scene. After verification, since 2012, Yang's gang has long organized sources of rice and corn in Myanmar and Vietnam and smuggled grain into the country from non-customs places such as Ruili and Hekou by employing border people. and then through the province's railway stations to Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other 13 provinces and cities to make a profit. A total of more than 40, 000 tons of grain were smuggled, worth about 150 million yuan.

Smuggling rice endangers national food security

Just now we saw that a lot of smuggled rice went to grain-producing areas like Hunan and Hubei. Why do these places produce rice locally and still need to buy smuggled rice from outside?

Because Vietnam, Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries have plenty of sunshine, most places can grow two or even three cropping rice, coupled with their low labor costs, so the price of rice itself is relatively low. In China, because of the grain collection and storage system and grain price subsidy policy, the price difference of rice at home and abroad has been further magnified.

Zhan Li, director of anti-smuggling of Kunming Customs: it should account for about two yuan on average. He wants to see the quality and variety of the grain. Generally speaking, there is a difference between one yuan and three yuan (per kilogram).

Judging from the circumstances of the case, in the major grain producing areas where these smuggled rice are flowed, farmers sell their own grain at the price subsidized by the state, while at the same time buying smuggled rice at lower prices from the market. What's more, the smuggled rice is bought directly at a low price and sold at a high price.

Wang Shihai of the Macro-Control Department of the State Grain Administration: it has had a great impact on the domestic grain market and increased the downward pressure on domestic grain market prices. in a certain range, it has led to the upside-down of grain prices in domestic raw grain and precipitated grain producing and marketing areas.

Under the long-term national food security strategy, the total supply and demand of rice and other cereals in China is basically balanced. The influx of smuggled rice without inspection and quarantine will not only break this balance, make the subsidy of grain prices to farmers invalid, and even bring serious hidden dangers to the table safety of consumers.

Zhu Feng, deputy director of the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs: endangering the vital interests of the broad masses of farmers, by evading the supervision of illegally smuggled agricultural products by the relevant customs departments, there is a serious hidden danger to food hygiene and safety, which poses a serious threat to the food safety of the people.