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