In 2022, Ho Chi Minh City will reach out strongly, the economy will achieve a spectacular growth of more than 9% compared to 2021.
Contributing to the socio-economic achievements of Ho Chi Minh City is the significant contribution of officers and soldiers of the city’s border guards, who have been working day and night in the management of the city. protect, protect border security sovereignty the sea, the port city to bring a peaceful environment for development.
Effective control of entry and exit activities
One of the bright spots of Ho Chi Minh City’s economy in 2022 is that the import and export of goods ranks first in the country. According to published statistics, the city’s total import and export turnover in 2022 will reach about 140 billion USD, up 9.8% compared to 2021, of which only city enterprises export through the city port. city reached more than 41 billion USD.
To get those positive results, besides the efforts of departments, branches and businesses, there is also a very important role of city border guards.
Manage and protect the coastline with a length of 23.5 km, an area of more than 5,000 km2 with dozens of ports, wharves, pairs of buoys on two important navigational channels spanning more than 150 km.
The Border Guard of Ho Chi Minh City has made great efforts to maintain security and order in the maritime border area, effectively inspecting and controlling entry and exit activities at the port border gate; contributing to maintaining political security, social order and safety, meeting the requirements of integration, expanding exchanges and cooperation for economic and social development of the city.
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Every day, at the city port border gate area, there are 70-80 turns of ships, hundreds of turns of small inland watercraft coming in and out; thousands of road transport vehicles with tens of thousands of shipping containers and 7,000-8,000 turns of people operating at the city port border gate.
Thanks to the application of administrative reform and electronic border protection measures, border-guard procedures have become open and convenient, bringing practical benefits to businesses and people. (Photo: Xuan Khu/VNA)With that excitement, officers and soldiers of the port border guards had to make efforts to overcome objectively difficult factors to fulfill their political tasks, in which the focus was on ensuring good inspection work. control entry and exit at the port to serve the socio-economic development of the city.
In 2022, the city’s border guards have successfully completed the task of controlling entry and exit for more than 11,000 cargo ships with 1.1 million crew members and 105 million tons of cargo.
Control more than 11,000 domestic ships going and coming with more than 206,000 crew members and nearly 50 million tons of cargo. Controlled 182,000 turns of officials and workers boarding the ship to work; more than 5,000 turns of watercraft docked alongside 21,000 turns of people.
Colonel Nguyen Tien Luy, Politician of the Border Guard at Ho Chi Minh City Port said that in 2022, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of passenger ships entering and leaving the port is not much, most of the subjects of the work. Immigration control is cargo ships.
By many measures, the City Port Border Guard has basically harmoniously solved the problem of both ensuring strict and strict control requirements without omission, violation, crime, and fast , compact, convenient to help businesses promote production, business and tourism.
Accompanying businesses, shipping agents, vehicle owners, helping them who are facing difficulties due to the impact of the epidemic, the city’s port border guards deploy administrative procedure reform, using technology in professional activities to ensure both strictness and compliance with legal regulations and flexibility, creating favorable conditions for businesses. From there, it helps to reduce the time of procedures for businesses and shipping agents, reduce the time to unload goods at the port, and reduce logistics costs.
As a person with many years of work related to import and export activities of goods through the port of Ho Chi Minh City, Mr. Nguyen Quang Trung, shipping agent Calm Sea Company Limited, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City Chi Minh said that up to now, the implementation of seaport electronic border guard procedures by the city’s port border guards has worked very well, reducing the time for procedures and goods processing time of enterprises.
“If in the past, when the ship entered the port, the time to wait for procedures and then unload sometimes took a whole day, even 8-9 hours, now it is possible to unload the goods as soon as the ship arrives at the port. That not only helps businesses reduce service costs, but also creates opportunities to exploit new markets, new customers for businesses and as well as port management units,” said Mr. Nguyen Quang Trung.
“Rooster session” of the city in the integration period
In the current context of deep international economic integration, the negative effects from the market economy’s negative side, the risks of traditional and non-traditional security instability due to epidemics, natural disasters, etc. has a great impact on our country, including Ho Chi Minh City. That puts the city border guards with higher requirements in management, protection of sovereignty, territory, security of sea border areas and ports, contributing to ensuring national security. social order and safety; ensure the environment for the socio-economic development of the city in the new situation.
Lieutenant Dau Xuan Duy, Long Hoa Border Guard Station, Ho Chi Minh City Border Guard propagates and disseminates legal knowledge to people who work in fishing at sea. (Photo: Xuan Khu/VNA)Determining the importance of the City as an area with an important strategic position in terms of economy, culture, society, national defense and security, an international exchange center of the country and the region. Over the years, the Ho Chi Minh City border guard has always determined the key task is to ensure a close and effective combination between border guard work and socio-economic development.
Colonel Nguyen Van Tien, Deputy Political Commissar of the Border Guard of Ho Chi Minh City, said that identifying the role of an effective “filter” for the city in the integration period, the city’s border guards in the over the past year actively promote administrative reform in the management of entry and exit, creating favorable conditions for people and businesses; effectively participate in the fight against non-traditional security threats, contribute to maintaining political stability, social order and safety, serving the city’s economic development and international integration; contribute to the Party Committee and people of the city to build Ho Chi Minh City with a good quality of life, civilization, modernity and gratitude.
A working session on the situation of Lieutenant Colonel Ta Duc Trong, Long Hoa Border Guard station, Ho Chi Minh City Border Guard and Head of hamlet, socio-political organizations in Dong Tranh hamlet, Long Hoa commune , Can Gio district. (Photo: Xuan Khu/VNA)Besides the excellent completion of the control task Immigration, the city’s border guards closely coordinate with functional agencies and units to effectively implement the work of ensuring security, order and social safety in the sea and port areas of the city; effectively combat violations and crimes, especially smuggling, commercial fraud, and illegal transportation of goods through seaport border gates.
Colonel Nguyen Van Dinh, Commander of the Border Guard at the Ho Chi Minh City Port Border Gate, said that in 2022 alone, the unit detected 61 cases of commercial fraud and illegal transportation of goods with 102 agents. incident, seized 46 vehicles.
At the same time, effectively deploying professional activities in coordination with functional units such as police, customs, port authorities… to capture information in a timely manner, ready to handle any arising situations to always ensure ensure that the seaport border gate area of the city is a safe “green area”, meeting the requirements of serving socio-economic development activities of the city.
When talking about the positive results of the city’s border force in 2022, Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of the People’s Committee Ho Chi Minh City recognize and appreciate the achievements that the Party Committee, the Army Command Border The city has achieved in carrying out the assigned political tasks; especially achievements in the fight against illegal sand mining and transportation, smuggling and commercial fraud; consolidate, stabilize and build solidarity within the unit, actively contribute to serving the policy of the City Party Committee and solutions of the City People’s Committee in consolidating national defense-security and economic development. -Society and international integration of border localities in particular and Ho Chi Minh City in general.
It can be said that, in the past years, with efforts to overcome difficulties, strive to complete all tasks of each officer and soldier on all roads of the border area, sea area, port border gate. of the city, the City Border Guard has well promoted its role as the core and important force of Ho Chi Minh City in building a solid border wall at the port, contributing to the cause of construction. Build and protect the city named after Uncle Ho to develop into an urban area with “good quality of life, civilization, modernity and love”.
Lesson 1: Join hands to build and develop maritime border areas
Xuan Khu (VNA/Vietnam+)