Shandong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as “CIQ Shandong”), was set up in July 1999 as the re-organization of the former Shandong Import & Export Commodity Inspection Bureau, Qingdao Animal & Plant Quarantine Bureau and Qingdao Sanitary Quarantine Bureau. It is the administrative and law-enforcement authority of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as “AQSIQ”) in Shandong Province where it is responsible for entry-exit health and quarantine, animal and plant quarantine, import and export commodity inspection, survey, attestation and supervision directly under the administration of AQSIQ in accordance with the following laws and regulations, such as, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity Inspection and the implementation regulations thereof, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine and the implementation regulations thereof, the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of The People’s Republic of China, and the Food Hygiene Law of the People’s Republic of China,. CIQ Shandong is one of the four AQSIQ-designated regional regulating bureaus in the inspection and quarantine regime of the 35 inspection and quarantine bureaus across the country. In response to the changing scenarios of the fast-growing national foreign trade and the increasing globalization of the world economy, CIQ Shandong has been expanding and developing its grassroots services and branch locations. Now it provides a full-range of services covering passengers, commodities, and vehicle inspection and quarantine extending to freight ships and aircraft, playing more and more important and positive roles in promoting the development of Shandong economy. Now it operates 15 offices, 22 branches, and 16 sub-branches at major coastal ports, airports, other frontier posts, economic zones, high-tech parks and industrial processing enclaves, including the 17 cities and prefecture capitals. CIQ Shandong is now sufficiently staffed with experts and other specialists. Of the 2,400 employees, 345 are master-degree and doctor-degree holders. CIQ Shandong operates laboratories of different sizes and utilities, 20 of which are recognized as national key labs, 11 are regional central labs, and 6 are joint-venture labs. The testing items amount more than 1500, including dominantly, food, agriculture products, poultry diseases, equine diseases, peanuts, GM products, petroleum oil products, safety of machinery and electricity, ceramic, tires, architectural & indoor decorating materials, cements, cotton, pens, and dangerous goods & packing, etc.
Following the State Council master plan on nation-wide inspection and quarantine, and in accordance with related laws and regulations, CIQ Shandong has the following missions and duties:
1. Enforcement of the laws and statutes listed above, responsible for entry-exit inspection, quarantine, survey testing, and supervision in Shandong.
2. Implementation of entry-exit health and hygiene quarantine, communicable disease epidemic monitoring control and sanitation supervision.
3. Implementation of entry-exit animal and plant inspection, quarantine, supervision and administration.
4. Compulsory inspection and supervision on export and import commodities, appraisal, certification and supervision on such commodities, appraisal and authentication on foreign-invested assets, and re-inspection of import commodities.
5. Hygiene registry of food products and their exporters, importers, and manufacturers, proxy registry of such products and producers with overseas authorities, issuance of safety and quality license to exports, imports, and related products and equipment.
6. Testing and verifying of commodities under import license control, and implementing technical barriers of trade and quarantine agreements in accordance of relevant regulations.
7. Administration of inspection certificates, quarantine marks, stamps, seals, and other official documents evidencing inspection and quarantine compliance, and of generalized system of preference certificates of origin and general certificates of origin.
8. Statistics generation on entry-exit inspection and quarantine of Shandong business operations, and information collection on contagious diseases overseas, and animal and plant epidemics, and analyses and provision of such information.
9. Supervision and administration of inspection, quarantine, testing (Sino-foreign joint ventures and cooperatives included), sanitation and other related public services within Shandong Province.