On May 28, Guangdong Provincial Government and China Customs signed a memo in Guangzhou in a bid to establish a mechanism to enhance the two parts' cooperation.

According to the memo, the Customs will enhance its support to Guangdong in 8 aspects:

Support Guangdong to tighten ties with Hong Kong and Macao

Support Guangdong to optimize its customs' goods check

Support Guangdong to improve customs clearance

Support Guangdong to upgrade or transfer its processing industry and trade

Support Guangdong to launch more pilot monitor zones

Support Guangdong’s anti-smuggle activities

Support Guangdong to improve its statistics supervising and warning system so as to provide local government with prompt information

Support Guangdong to establish a classified-by-industries customs system