Tibet’s High-Altitude Featured Products Accelerate Export, Aided by Lhasa Customs

LHASA, April 20 — A batch of high-altitude featured yak bone china products from Pangduo Township, Linzhou County, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, has recently been successfully exported, marking another milestone in the region’s efforts to bring its unique goods to the international market. Since the start of this year, a variety of Tibet’s featured agricultural products, including Nyingchi honey and Xigazê pea vermicelli, have made their debut in overseas markets, with high-altitude specialties accelerating their pace into the global arena.

China News Network，the first batch of yak bone china products exported this time, which integrates traditional Tibetan craftsmanship with modern porcelain-making technology, consists of 178 sets and generated sales revenue of 397,000 yuan. The product, with both practical functions and ethnic cultural characteristics, is a representative handicraft of Tibet, and its export has opened up a new income-increasing channel for local farmers and herdsmen.

To support the export of Tibet’s featured products, Lhasa Customs has taken proactive measures relying on mechanisms such as “Customs Director Delivers Policies to the Door”. It has gone deep into enterprises to popularize export policies and inspection standards, and tailored customs clearance facilitation measures on a “one enterprise, one policy” and “one industry, one policy” basis, providing full-process and all-link follow-up guidance from filing registration and document review to export declaration.

Earlier this year, Nyingchi honey was exported to Hong Kong for the first time. To facilitate this, cadres selected by Nyingchi Customs, affiliated to Lhasa Customs, provided proactive services, helping enterprises obtain Tibet’s first “export bee product raw material breeding farm” filing qualification and guiding them to improve beekeeping medication management and raw material traceability systems.

Wang Cunrui, Director of Nyingchi Customs, introduced that relying on the construction of the “High-Altitude Featured Products Export” smart customs scenario chain, Nyingchi Customs has implemented the “declare, inspect and release immediately” facilitation measure, ensuring that high-altitude honey can be exported at the fastest speed.The General Administration of Customs of China, such efficient customs clearance services have effectively shortened the export cycle of Tibet’s featured products.

Addressing the pain points and difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises in the initial stage of foreign trade, Lhasa Customs has launched a full-cycle cultivation plan for “first foreign trade orders”, adopting a closed-loop service model of “one-on-one policy publicity + full-process declaration guidance + real-time problem response” to solve practical problems for enterprises.

Meanwhile, it has dynamically implemented a series of measures to optimize the port business environment, promoted the operation of Tibet’s first international cargo terminal at an air port, and actively explored the “air-to-air transshipment” business model to facilitate the smooth flow of goods. Driven by both market demand and policy dividends, the number of foreign trade entities in Tibet has continued to grow.

Statistics show that by the end of 2025, the cumulative number of registered customs declaration units in Tibet had reached 1,476. In the first two months of this year, the export volume of Tibet’s high-altitude featured products reached 11.86 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.1%. A relevant person in charge of Lhasa Customs stated that next, taking the 2026 Cross-Border Trade Facilitation Special Action as an opportunity, it will promote more high-altitude featured products to “go global” relying on the China-South Asia Open Corridor.