The 2026 China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Africa (Morocco) was launched in Casablanca on June 10. At the opening ceremony, the China-Africa SPS Cooperation Information Network was upgraded into a "Version 2.0," hosted by the Department of International Cooperation of the General Administration of Customs (GACC) and constructed by the Changsha Customs Authority. This platform features four major databases—"Access Information," "Policies and Regulations," "Trade Data," and "Technical Trade Measures," being accessible on multiple devices including mobile phones and tablets.

The China-Africa SPS Cooperation Information Network was first launched and began operating in June 2023. It focuses on the core areas of customs inspection and quarantine to create a one-stop public service platform featuring information sharing, regulatory alignment, and joint risk prevention, continuously empowering pragmatic China-Africa economic and trade cooperation. To date, the website has collected over 32,000 pieces of access information on African agricultural and food products exported to China, offering bilingual Chinese-English one-stop query services that allow users to conduct precise searches across multiple dimensions such as country, category, product name, and producer. It has aggregated 218,400 pieces of real-time China-Africa economic and trade information, including 131,700 pieces of bilateral trade data, and dynamically generates interactive trade maps and trend charts to reflect the scale, structure, and development potential of China-Africa trade. The website has also cumulatively updated 47,500 notifications related to sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical trade measures in the China-Africa trade, and collected over 950 laws, regulations, and policy updates encompassing tariffs, market access, and product quality, thereby building a full-chain service system of "regulation search + policy interpretation + practical guidance."

Currently, the website also integrates China's full implementation of zero-tariff treatment covering all 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic ties. It has launched a bilingual Chinese-English "Zero Tariff" thematic section that systematically outlines the policy background, provides in-depth interpretation of core provisions, visually displays trade development trends, and comprehensively gathers comments and feedback from various stakeholders, presenting new cooperative achievements brought by policy implementation in a multidimensional manner.

The Changsha Customs Authority stated that it will leverage smart customs construction to continuously deepen content operations, ensure stable system operation, strengthen technological innovation, and build a more stable and efficient digital bridge for China-Africa economic and trade cooperation.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.  

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn