Zhonghongwang.com:

High standards are an important indicator of a country's high-quality development and its participation in high-quality competition. What role does China's standardization work play in the process of promoting high-quality development? What are your plans for the next steps? Thanks.

Luo Wen:

Thank you for your important questions. Competition among enterprises involves not only products but also standards, which hold even higher importance. I would like to invite Mr. Tian to answer your questions.

Tian Shihong:

As a crucial element of a fundamental system, standards, along with measurement, certification, recognition, inspection and testing, make up a nation's quality infrastructure. As such, they also serve as an essential technical force to support high-quality development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that standards determine quality, and high quality can only be achieved with high standards. Standardization plays a foundational and leading role in promoting the national governance system and the modernization of governance ability. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached high importance to standardization-related work and specifically issued an outline to promote standardized development at the national level, forming a comprehensive plan for the medium- and long-term development of our standardization. The SAMR has consistently treated standardization-related work as a key task for promoting high-quality growth. We have actively collaborated with relevant departments and local authorities to continuously improve standardization management systems and mechanisms that are unified, authoritative and highly effective. We have also accelerated the building of a system of standards that is structurally optimized, advanced, reasonable, and compatible with international rules, providing support to high technology innovation, high-level opening-up and high-quality development. We have mainly carried out our work in the following aspects.

First, we have strengthened the top-level design of the standards system. The Standardization Administration, along with 15 other departments, has released an action plan for implementing the outline to promote standardized development at the national level. We have advanced the implementation of various major projects, including those focused on high-end equipment manufacturing standardization to strengthen China's infrastructure, leading projects for new industry standardization, initiatives for upgrading carbon peaking and neutrality standardization, and projects aimed at advancing standardization to align with global standards. We have also issued a series of documents on guiding standardization-related work in green development, digital villages, intelligent manufacturing and other fields, providing policy support for building and promoting the system of standards for high-quality development.

Second, we have accelerated our efforts to improve the supply structure of standards. We have promoted a shift from government-led supply standards to a balanced emphasis on both government and market-driven supplies. We have adhered to the fact that standards are set for public welfare and thus strengthened the government's guidance and management. At the same time, we have also encouraged enterprises and society to actively participate in setting standards, leaving development room for the market to formulate standards independently. So far, China has issued 43,000 national-level standards, 78,000 registered industrial standards, 62,000 local standards, 53,000 open self-declaration group standards, and over 2.7 million enterprise standards. Among these, more than 3,200 are leading enterprise standards with first-class technologies, advanced management and remarkable benefits. Thanks to such efforts, we have essentially established a standardization work pattern that is market-driven, government-guided, participated in by society, enterprise-centered, and characterized by openness and integration.

Third, we have accelerated standardization in all sectors. We have taken extensive action to implement the "Standardization Plus" program. As a result, nearly 10,000 agricultural standards have been set, and standardized production accounts for over 30% of agricultural production. Industrial standards have also been constantly upgraded. The international standard conversion rate in many fields, including key equipment manufacturing and next-generation information technology, now exceeds 90%. The consistency of standards on major consumer goods with international standards has reached 95%. The service sector's standards system has improved steadily, with newly released national standards on this sector increasing by 12% year on year. We have also effectively standardized social development in 37 key areas, including administrative management, basic public services, public security, social governance, and other social programs. Standardization is playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting industries' transformation and upgrading, meeting people's desire for a better life, and serving China's opening-up.

Fourth, we have consolidated the foundation for the development of standardization. We have strengthened the entire life cycle management of various standards. Scientific research capacities and management systems for standardization have been steadily improved. We have vigorously advanced the standardization of basic research and application services. Currently, there are more than 1,300 national professional technical organizations for standardization in China, with over 50,000 domestically registered experts and 12,000 experts registered to international organizations. More than 7,300 national pilot demonstration programs for standardization have been established, and nearly 30 national technical standard innovation centers have been built, greatly boosting our basic capacity to support standardization.

Next, the SAMR will fully study and implement the guiding principles of the 20th CPC National Congress and focus our efforts on key targets and tasks to build China into a manufacturer of quality. We will fully implement the outline to promote standardized development at the national level and the outline to improve the overall quality of China's economy. We will strive to change from a pattern in which the government leads the standards-making process to a pattern in which both the government and market contribute to the standards-making process, from a pattern in which standards are mainly applied in industry and trade sectors to a pattern in which standards are applied in all economic and social sectors, and from a pattern in which standardization work is conducted domestically to a pattern in which standardization work is conducted through international cooperation. In addition, standardized development will transform from a quantity-and-scale model to that of quality and efficiency. By doing so, we will work faster to create a system of standards for promoting high-quality development and serve high-quality economic and social development with standardization work. Thank you.