Hong Kong Bauhinia Magazine:

The Central Economic Work Conference proposed enhancing quality support and standard leadership. Would you please introduce the efforts made by the SAMR on quality support and standard leadership? Thank you.

Pu Chun:

I'll invite Mr. Liu to answer the question.

Liu Sanjiang:

Thank you for your interest in quality issues. To build a modernized industrial system and advance high-quality economic and social development, it is essential to fully leverage the roles of quality support and standard leadership. In accordance with the plans of the Central Economic Work Conference, we will strive to establish quality benchmarks and advanced standards based on fully implementing the outline to improve the overall quality of China's economy.

In terms of setting up quality benchmarks, we will promote high-quality development to empower enterprises, industrial and supply chains, as well as counties in a systematic manner.

First, we will identify a group of leading enterprises that help improve the overall quality of China's economy, better leveraging the role of quality in fostering enterprise growth. Focusing on areas such as quality technological innovation, improvement in quality management, and enhancement of brand competitiveness, we will select a group of companies known for their pursuit of quality to serve as models for other companies in key sectors such as information and communication, engineering machinery, and new energy vehicles.

Second, we will initiate a series of major signature projects to enhance the quality of industrial and supply chains, thereby bolstering industries with high-quality growth. Focusing on key industrial chains such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and quantum information, we will outline the quality profile of these industrial chains, formulating lists of quality issues, research topics, and policies to strengthen comprehensive quality management of industrial chains. We will also enhance our quality infrastructure and promote coordinated quality improvements throughout industrial and supply chains.

Third, we will foster a group of counties, districts and towns of high-quality development, giving more play to the role of quality in promoting sustainable urban development. We will establish a comprehensive system to evaluate the development quality of counties. Counties, districts and towns are encouraged to formulate and implement their urban quality development strategies based on their own mission and resources. Modern quality management concepts and tools are also used to advance refined, high-quality and intelligent urban development, thus strengthening the grassroots foundation for China to improve the overall quality of its economy.

In terms of strengthening the advancement of standards, we will take three measures. First, we will raise technical, emissions, and energy consumption standards to better leverage the role of standards in boosting domestic demand. We will improve the quality and safety requirements for consumer commodities such as home appliances and furniture, along with service standards. We will upgrade smart manufacturing, green manufacturing, and service-oriented manufacturing standards to promote new infrastructure standards for infrastructure such as data centers and electric vehicle charging stations. We will also improve fuel consumption standards for passenger cars and heavy commercial vehicles. We will enhance standards on energy consumption quotas and for terminal product energy efficiency of key industries. In particular, we will strengthen the development and implementation of mandatory national standards for key industrial products and special equipment that are safety-critical, ensuring these standards are as strong as possible. We aim to leverage standards to pioneer large-scale equipment updates and consumption product replacement programs.

Second, we will steadily expand institutional opening up for standards to enhance our performance in international competition and cooperation. We will establish a more open standardization system, actively participate in the governance of international standard organizations, strengthen the interactive development of standardization with technological innovation, and contribute more of China's visions to improving the international standard system. In combination with cooperation demands in industries, trade, engineering, etc., we will accelerate the compilation of foreign language versions of Chinese standards.

Third, we will implement a series of major signature projects to better leverage the role of standards in safeguarding the stability of industrial chains. We will focus on important industrial chains such as integrated circuits, industrial robots, and the large-scale application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. We will develop technological standards for key areas such as artificial intelligence security and driving assistance systems. We will accelerate the conversion of independent technologies into independent standards and establish a standard system that adapts to industrial chains. Thank you.