On 18 November 2021, SESEC held its webinar on the interpretation of China’s Outline for the Development of National Standardisation, with approximately 100 participants from European authorities, Standard Developing Organisations and enterprises.
Dr. Betty XU, the Director of SESEC Project, made a detailed introduction of the background, content and impact of the Outline. The Outline focuses on optimising the standardisation governance structure, enhancing the efficiency of standardisation governance, and promoting high-quality development through standards.
In conclusion, the Outline in general sets a friendly environment for foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) to participate in standardisation development. The Outline explicitly aims to “ensure the participation of foreign-invested enterprises in the development of standards according to law”: this will help FIEs participate in standardisation organisations and development. In addition, the Outline’s requirement of “ensuring that products sold domestically are produced on the same production lines, meet the same standards, and are of the same quality as exported ones” will increase the production transition costs for Chinese local manufacturers, comparing with that of foreign manufacturers.
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