The Development Of China Customs Higher Education Under The Background Of Globalization

Judging from tasks to manage import and export cargoes and articles, Customs is the only authorized functional department of country. Being the embodiment of national sovereignty and the gateway of country, customs affords mission to maintain national economic interests and security. Through involvement into globalization process, Customs untraditional function scope has been expanded unceasingly. The organization chart is facing to great changes, such as new situation, unexpected challenges and problems. Customs team size will not expand so quickly for formulated set limits, so we must adapt new management measures, technologies, ideas and equipments to fulfill the requests raised by global economy constant changes. Technology applications, management idea updates and regulation implementations are all basic concepts of customs capacity building program, which depends on the construction of customs talent team and methods to cultivate talents who can meet the socioeconomic situation changes in global scope. Therefore customs modernization is ultimately customs employees’modernization. Customs modernization can not proceed without talent training and education. The development of customs higher education and its reform should conform to industry trend. Moreover, it’s necessary to cultivate the talents who are adaptable to constant changing situation with global views.Customs plays an important role in the process of China participating in global economy globalization. A distinct property of customs work is its involvement in foreign elements. The quality of China customs team has relations with national critical affairs such as society, economy, security and sovereignty. And it is also related to China international competence on customs strength and capacity level. Meanwhile customs higher education is also facing to important development opportunities, such as the international customs professional standard release, the great importance China have attached on higher education internationalization and the urgent demands of colleges and universities on their development and internal system adjustment. Above all raise new requests and challenges to local customs higher education.Education globalization is the product of economic globalization. While the country relaxes market access conditions in economy field, local education agencies can not avoid the impact and competition from education globalization. Being in an unprecedented complex and multi-layered system, the key tasks for local higher education are to pursue a long-term dynamic balance in this trend and find out its own way to develop. Especially under the circus toms that global higher education market has been formed by the closer connection between universities and international organization, the international diversification and global courses standardization intersect with languages (mainly English) build up an abundant and complex development situation. We should think on a long-term view, and consider from global perspective about the future of higher education. How to adjust our own development? The global customs higher education practice also reflects this trend, e.g. we can find the booming of global customs colleges and academic institutions at the beginning of the21st century. According to domestic study results on customs higher education, overall we have a great space to explore in this field, especially on international higher education aspect. We need to strengthen the research on foreign customs higher education, deepen the understanding of its international development trend, patterns, characteristics, best practices and etc.Under the background of great changes in global economy environment, management concept, technological innovation and customs development strategy, what should higher education do to cultivate professional talents to fulfill the demands of customs, how should college develop under globalization, both are severe challenges proposed to us. Involving in the midst of rapid economic, political, and financial globalization, customs industry should revise and expand its positions, functions and responsibilities accordingly, which will impact on local economy, policy, ecology and cultural security. WCO adopted a strategy document "Customs in the21st Century", which showed the priority of cultivating senior professional talents with global views, and the urgent demands of these competitive talents in global scope.In addition, we have to look around the world because we do not have similar colleges or universities to compare with in local customs educations. We need to look worldwide to find and understand the latest customs higher education trend. International customs academics have set up an academic union under WCO Capability Building program in recent years. They have also set up an international platform for the exploration and research of customs education programs, and initiated a professional standard for customs staff professionalism and academic research. Some customs higher education institutions in the world have already applied these advantages by introducing WCO relevant certifications and standards into their own curriculum system, which will meet the huge demands of global customs for professional talents and greatly affect international customs specialists’training in education industry. We can also value other customs higher education patterns, curriculum settings and their rich connotation as important references to the internationalization of customs higher education in our country.China customs higher education has undergone changes. And it has a long history of industry education. In late Qing dynasty, a group of far-sighted people recognized the importance of talents cultivating to safeguard national customs right in foreign trade, promoted and set up Tax College, which later developed as tax special school in the republic of China, cultivated a large number of talents with customs affair knowledge. China customs set up Shanghai Customs School after the liberation. During1980s in the20th century Shanghai Customs College, Qin huangdao Customs School, Customs Management Institute and other education institutions were built. Now China customs higher education is mainly represented by Shanghai Customs College which directly reports the general administration of China customs. In recent years, Shanghai Customs College has got great developments in the field of academic education and in-service training. Some symbolic events like the success of undergraduate college application, the launch of professional master degree education, party school establishment under general administration of customs and the set up of WCO Asia Pacific training make Shanghai Custom College, the only professional institute of systematic customs courses in China, owns good resources and platform to develop. Standing on historical circumstances, the key points for higher education sustainable development is how to play advantages to get a thorough analysis on existing problems and create strategies and paths for better service.Therefore, we must consider customs reform and talents development in the future on global and national levels. Based on the reference from home and abroad, we need to work out customs higher education internationalization development path of local features. Therefore, this study proposes five strategies to accelerate China customs higher education development.First of all is the implementation of national strategic talent reserve plan. We need to raise talents to better service international customs organization developments in the fields like language, research and border affairs, establish global customs talent base, and achieve the whole process of talent training to cover from "pre-service" to "after-service" stage.Second is to implement college internationalization strategy. According to national economy and trade strategy, we need to select suitable strategic partners, cooperate comprehensively with international cooperation, promote our international influence and build up an evaluation system for internationalization level of customs higher education.Third is to reform existing curriculum system based on international professional standards. We need to propose specific suggestions on our current curriculum system reform, update international standards through studies on overall design and single courses. Then we can create best practices in China Customs Colleges and make great contribution to the future development of WCO education project.The forth step is to build up an academic system for customs study, which will further strengthen research in this field. We can take reference from international relevant university academic settings, as well as the worth-learning parts of studies in this field. We should actively absorb the latest achievements of international customs academic frontier and keep up with the updated development, innovative research and thinking.Last step is to propose an interconnection of professional systems between domestic and international institutions, as well as enhance the construction to reserve good teachers. It is an important thing to develop the cohesion of international and Chinese customs experts. College should become the important talent base, make customs officers be professional and acquire international qualification recognition. All of these will finally make customs really become a profession worldwide. Customs experts and teachers can transform orderly and promote by each other, which is conducive to the construction of high-level professional team.In all, in order to realize customs higher education revolution, we must seize opportunities, meet challenges, adjust according to the latest customs international professional standards as well as development strategies, and continue to strengthen our talents trainings.