I. History of the Chaozhou Port

   1.Chaozhou Urban District Port
    In Feb. 1989, The Chaozhou Municipal Port Office was founded.
    In April 1989,Chaozhou Customs,Commodities Inspection,Animal and Plant Quarantine organizations were founded，and then put into operation in March 1991.     In March 1991, the Chaozhou Hongkong/Macau Straight Freight Train Checking Scene was built and put into operation.
    In Dec. 1994,Chaozhou Health Quarantine Institution was founded in Oct. 1996.
    In Nov. 1999,Chaozhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau was founded.
(Merged by Commodity Inspection,Animal and Plant Quarantine,Health Quarantine Institution).
    In Dec. 1999, the sub-council of Chaozhou Customs Smuggling Crimes Inspection was founded.
    In Sep. 2001，the municipal port office merged with the municipal foreign trade and economy committee to set up the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau.

    2.Raoping County Port
    In August 1989,Raoping Customs, Animal and Plant Quarantine,Frontier Checkpoint,Maritime Affairs Inspection Office,Health Quarantine Institution, Commodity Inspection were founded and put into operation in Jan. 1993. In Oct.. 1995,Raoping Container Vehicles Inspection site was built and put into operation.
    In 1999, Raoping Inspection and Quarantine Bureau was founded.
(Merged by Commodity Inspection,Animal and Plant Quarantine, Health Quarantine Institution)
    In Nov. 2000, Chaozhou Bureau of maritime affairs was founded.
(Merged by Maritime Affairs Inspection Office and Port Supervision Office)

II. Land-Carriage Port

   1. Chaozhou Hongkong/Macau Container Vehicles Checking Scene
    Chaozhou Hongkong/Macau Container Vehicles Checking Scene is located in the mid of Chaofeng Road in Chaozhou Downtown.It is built up and put into operation in March 1991, which costs more than ten million yuan.It takes up 5850 square metres, including a 845-square-metre warehouse.
    The Checking Scene, with 30 staff presently, has 20 platforms for examining the container vehicles.Since its operation, the number of daily vehicles in-and-out increases annually through strengthening the management and perfect the managerial system.In 2002, the number of container vehicles examined was over one hundred daily, peaked at 200. The Chaozhou Hongkong/Macau Container Vehicles Checking Scene has achieved very good social benefits and economic benefits.

    2.Raoping Container Vehicles Checking Scene
    Raoping Container Vehicles Checking Scene was built up in Oct. 1995, taking up 5010 square metres. The Checking Scene cost a total investment of 4.5 million yuan. There are a vehicle checking scene of 3400 square metres,a warehouse of 1200 square metres and an office building of 410 square metre。On Nov. 6th,1994, the inspection site was formally put into operation with the approval of the Guangdong Province [1995]No. 91 document.Since its operation, the number of the container vehicles examined daily gradually increases through strengthening the management and improving the service capacity, which results in good social benefits.

III.Water Carriage Port

   The Chaozhou port is located in Zhenlin Bay of Raoping, at the very east of Guangdong Province.The port is comprised by a 143-square-kilometre interior basin and a (planned) area of 1367 square kilometres.The coastline of the Chaozhou port extend to 165 kilometres as one of the best natural deep water ports in the south China.
    Chaozhou port is originally named Sanbaimen Port as part of the Shantou Port appointed by the state's Ministry of Transportation in 1986,which open to foreign ships.As in 1992，Chaozhou was promoted to extend the area，the Sanbaimen Port was transferred to the administration of the Chaozhao municipal govenment as its only one seaport. On Nov. 28th 1994，Chaozhou Port is established as an independent port opened to the outside in the State Council's [1994]No.117 document Reply to the Opening of Chaozhou Port in Guangdong Province.
    Since its foundation in 1986,there are big freighters from home and abroad, including over 20 countries and regions like the United States, Britain, Russia, HongKong, Macau etc., ship from the Chaozhou Port. The annual volume of freights handled in this port hit 1.1million tons, with the imported freights volumed four hundred thousand tons in 1996.
    The Chaozhou Port is composed of the Sanbaimen Loading and unloading Scene , the Zhelin Dispatch Scene and two anchorage grounds.There are six docks with one under construction in the the Sanbaimen Loading and unloading Scene. That is a 50000-ton-level dock special for gas,a 5000-ton level container dock,a 5000-ton level dock special for gas, a 3000-ton level dock special for grain,a 1000-ton container dock, a 5000-ton multi-functional freight dock and a 5000-ton level dock special for coal under construction. There are a 500-ton dock for seafood, two sixteen-thousand-ton anchorage grounds and a 50000-ton level dock special for gas in the Zhelin Dispatch Site.According to the over-all plan of the port construction project,it will newly build five docks above ten-thousand-ton level, a one-thousand-ton level dock and a passenger dock from 2001 to 2010.It is predicted that by 2010, the take-in-and-sent-out capacity of the port can reach eighteen million seven hundred and fifty thousand tons.According to the state's [1989]No.17 document，Chaozhou Port has set up some checking units like the Customs, the Frontier Checkpoint,the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and the Maritime Affairs Office. The infrastructure and necessary examining facilities of Chaozhou Port are all ready.

VI.Statistics

V.The Inspection Framework

   1.Urban District Port
    Chaozou Customs
    Chaozhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau

    2.Raoping Port
    Raoping Customs
    Raoping Inspection and Quarantine Bureau
    Chaozhou Frontier Checkpoint
    Chaozhou Maritime Affairs Port Office