The planned water anti-smuggling operation, originally set for a month, ended after just twelve days.
The main reason for the early conclusion was that all the coastal provinces were engaged in crackdowns, especially on the East Sea side, which had been going on for nearly two months. The "oil thieves" who used to frequent the Wusong Water Area were nowhere to be seen, and the smugglers knew better than to run into the gun barrel; they were all laying low. Continuing the large-scale water anti-smuggling operation wouldn't yield much result.
Furthermore, Customs, as the main force in combating smuggling, needs to tackle not just maritime smuggling but other forms of smuggling as well.
The upper levels have a strong resolve to combat smuggling, requiring a retrospective investigation of three years' worth of import and export trade, and the workload is immense.
