China Institute for Standardization

General Rules for the Standard Preparation of Runningers

The criteria are established by consensus in accordance with the procedures established to provide rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results for common use and reuse (GB/T 20000.1-2014). In the context of today’s more intensive division of labour in industry and the continuous expansion of the industrial chain, standards are the basis for concerted cooperation among all sectors of society and the indispensable “common language” in global trade. In addition, in recent years, emerging industries have shown trends in the depth of science, technology and standards, such as the five-G standard-leading events of widespread concern, which reflect in depth the significant impact of standards on future technological and industrial development directions. At present, China is vigorously implementing the manufacturing power strategy at the high-quality development stage, and has placed the improvement of the existing standard system to a very important level of improvement. In 2015, the Department of State issued the Programme for Reforming Standardization, which sets out the requirements to motivate market agents, to foster group standards for development and to build standards for business. Towards a market-led group standards and business standards that emphasize advanced quotation, a new standardized working pattern based on government-led national, local and industry standards.

In March 2015, the Department of State issued the Programme for the Reform of the Deep Standardization of Work, which clearly sets out the criteria for “decent business”. Businesses develop and implement enterprise standards as required. Enterprises are encouraged to develop higher standards than national standards, industry standards, local standards and competitive business standards. Establishment of a system of self-declaration and supervision of enterprise product and service standards, progressive elimination of government record-keeping of enterprise product standards and implementation of corporate standardization responsibilities. Encourage standardized professional institutions to conduct comparison and evaluation of publicly available standards for enterprises and strengthen social oversight.” In September 2015, the General Inspectorate and the National Standards Committee issued the Work Programme on the Construction of a Self-Developing and Monitoring System for Business Products and Services Standards, developed a Guide to the Self-Developing and Monitoring System for Standards of Business Products and Services, and plans to implement fully the system of self-declaration and supervision of enterprise product and services standards in 2017. The revised Standardization Act, which was introduced on 1 January 2018, provides for “the introduction by the State of a system of disclosure and supervision of group standards, self-statement of business standards”, and establishes, at the legal level, a system of self-statement of business standards.

The Standardization Act provides for the content and manner of self-statement of business standards. Businesses should disclose the mandatory, recommended, group or enterprise standard numbering and name of their implementation; and business implement self-developed enterprise standards, and public products, service performance indicators and product performance indicators. The State encourages group standards and business standards to be made public to society through standard information public service platforms. It is worth noting that the categories and content of open standard indicators are determined autonomously by the enterprise according to its own characteristics, including the main technical indicators of the product and the corresponding test methods, and that the enterprise may choose the publicly available version of the product, which it may not open up to the content of industrial secrets and commercial secrets, taking into account, for the time being, the issue of self-statement of imported products.

Self-declaration based on business standards is public, in June 2018, eight departments, such as the Directorate-General for Market Regulation, jointly issued Opinions on the Implementation of the Standards of Business (National Standards [2018] 84, hereinafter referred to as Opinion) requiring the issuance of 1,000 consumer goods, 500 equipment manufacturing and 200 service-type business standards by 2020. In accordance with the spirit of the Opinion, the work of the business standard “shelter” will be guided by the principles of demand orientation, openness, innovation drive, corporate ownership and regulatory orientation, based on the self-statement of the standards of business products and services, playing a market-led role, encouraging standardized technical institutions, industry associations, industry alliances, platform-based enterprises and third-party assessment bodies such as testing, certification, advisory services, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the “assessment body”) to conduct standard-level assessments of business, issuing enterprise standard-classification lists, identifying standard-bearers, developing harmonized evaluation procedures, markings, platforms and regulatory incentives, creating mechanisms to promote enterprise upgrading standards, and overall quality-oriented products and services, and services for consumers.

In November 2018, the Office of the Superintendent of the Market Regulatory Authority issued a circular on the implementation of the enterprise standard “responsibility” focus area for 2018 (Centre No. [2018]77), setting out the 11 focus areas of air purification, laundry, electric refrigerators, etc., and recognizing that the Chinese Institute for Standardization is a working body. In order to implement the Opinion’s requirement to strengthen business standards, set industry markers, promote overall quality improvement, the China Institute for Standardization developed the Business Standards Implementation Program (Provisional) and organized the Business Standards “Road” Assessments in 2018 and 2019. In 2019, a single indicator classification for 386 standard business products or services was issued around 100 consumer goods, equipment and service categories, with a total of 245 enterprises with more than 2100 enterprise standards, 2436 business standards, and a list of business standard “sailors” in 92 consumer goods, equipment manufacturing and service breakdown areas, with a total of 317 business standards in 245 enterprises. The country’s 20-kilometre city has adopted a policy of enterprise standard “responsibles” for nurturing and nurturing, with the initial impact of the system.

The following deficiencies and difficulties in the development of standards are found in business standards comparison and assessment: first, open business is not a product criterion. Some enterprises do not properly understand the content of standards and self-declaration public policies, disclose business standard implementation certificates, and others publish only product statements or product designs. Second, individual enterprises do not carry out timely standard validity confirmations, some cases of violation of national laws and regulations, policies and mandatory standards, and national standards, industry standards or local standards that have been abolished in the public domain of the enterprise.