On 3rd July SAMR and other seven administrations jointly released “Opinions on Implementing the Forerunner Rules for Enterprise Standard (No.84:2018)”.The third-party assessment agencies, such as standardization technical institutes, industrial associations, Industry consortia and “platform companies”, can conduct enterprise standard assessment to identify the forerunner based on enterprise standard self-declaration. The opinions outlined clearly guidelines, general principles and the fostering targets of main consumption goods, equipment manufacturing and productive services etc. Six missions and four safeguards were underlined as below:

Missions:

•            Public self-declaration of enterprise standards on product and service

•            Identification of crucial areas

•            Assessment mechanism

•            Enterprise standards ranking list

•            Forerunner list

•            Dynamic amending mechanism

Safeguards

•            Consummation of inspiring policies

•            Innovative supervision pattern

•            Promotion of standardization service industry

•            Propaganda and training

For more info: http://www.sac.gov.cn/xw/bzhxw/201807/t20180703_342614.htm