ETSI’s First-Time Visits in China since Pandemic

From 10 to 11 July, on behalf of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Mr. Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, visited ETSI’s partners and relevant stakeholders in China. The visits of this time are attached with great significance because it is ETSI’s first-time visit in China since 2019 when the pandemic started to hit the world. To rebuild connections, Mr. Luis Jorge Romero, accompanied by Dr. Betty Xu, Director of SESEC, took the chance and had conversations and exchanges with his counterparts, experts, governmental officials working on ICT related standardization and policies.

In his two-day visit, Mr. Luis Jorge Romero had meetings with governmental officials from the Standardization Administration of China, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as experts from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and China Electronic Standardization Institute (CESI). In general, Chinese side and ETSI exchanged information and ideas over their ICT related standardization and policies, and provided interpretation over EU and China’s standardization strategies. More importantly, both sides expressed the willingness to keep the communication channels open, and explore potential opportunities to cooperate with each other.