China's customs collected 387.643 billion yuan taxes from Jan. to Sept. this year. That is 28.809 billion yuan more than in the same period of last year, or a year-on-year increase of 8.03 percent.

The 10th Five-year Plan period has witnessed sharp rise of China's customs tax revenue. The 1741.5 billion yuan of tax revenue collected by the customs from 2001 to September, 2005 represented an important source of China's fiscal revenue.

By People's Daily Online