China can be a standard bearer for technology

ZHI SHUPING, head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine, said in a recent interview that standards will play a key role in promoting the quality of Chinese products. Beijing News comments:

With the accelerating pace of globalization, China has been participating more in the global economy, and its standards have become increasingly important.

Zhi said that the next step will be for the administration to enhance the consistency between Chinese standards and international ones, raise the overall quality of development to a standard level, and help modernize the national governance system and governance capacity.

During the past few years, the administration has organized comparative analyses of over 770 technological standards and regulations in 12 key consumption domains, covering more than 3,800 technological indexes, and its data show that 80 percent of China’s standards are of the same level as those overseas, with some of them higher. China has already been taking the lead in sectors such as high-speed railways, civil nuclear electricity generation and communications.

These achievements would have been impossible without the fast economic development of China, and they in turn have helped propel China’s development.

Of course, it should also be noted that a gap still exists between some of China’s standards and those of developed countries. Zhi also admitted that. Actually, there are a number of problems, such as the lack of high technological standards and incomplete standardization systems.

With the implementation of policies such as Made in China 2025, which is an initiative to comprehensively upgrade Chinese industry by applying information technology to production, accelerating the process of introducing high-level standards has already become an indispensable part of China’s development as a whole.