Model centre for standardization of new and high technology in Shenzhen
On 9 and 10 December 2009, a group of experts from the Standardization Administration of the Peoples Republic of China visited the model centre for standardization of new and high technology in Shenzhen for an assessment of the pilot project. The group of experts led by the member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Liu Yunjie came after independent assessment, exhaustive discussion and final conclusion to the result, that the pilot project passed the inspection.
During the concluding conference for this assessment, the members of the committee from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the Peoples Republic of China and the director of the Standardization Administration of the Peoples Republic of China, Ji Zhenkun, jointly announced that the model centre for standardization of new and high technology in Shenzhen provided a new mechanism for the standardization work: “under guidance of the government, constituted by companies, supported by mediators and participated by society”. The ability of companies to participate in the process of standardization has been greatly improved; the proactive innovation capability of core businesses has been improved as well. This is shown by the apparent benefits for economy and society and should receive an honorable mention.
Ji Zhengkun further pointed out that China has been moving forward constantly over the last years. To develop new business sectors, strategic and extensive arrangements were made. Those mainly supported technological research and development, as well as the standardization of new energy sources, new materials, medicine, third generation telecommunication and integration of the three networks (telecommunications, television, and internet). This furthered the development of a more soft economy, a green economy. Facing this new situation the question of how to help the adaptation of the industrial structure and the development of economy and society has become one of the main tasks for standardization work.
Ji Zhengkun demanded to make use of the experience gathered in the model centre and to advertise the results, to further the proactive innovation capability for standardization at the model centre for new and high technology and develop it even more. The scientific development should be continued, further innovations should be assisted, the further development of standards for the new form, new direction and new structure of new and high technology should be studied even more closely, and all breakthroughs regarding standardization of new and high technology should be implemented.
The Standardization Administration of the Peoples Republic of China officially started the work of the pilot project of national model centres for standardization of new and high technology in 2005. Over time, 11 model centres opened in Xi’an, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Wuxi, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu and Nanchang (base models). Out of these, Shenzhen was the first to receive inspection. Setting up these model centres has effectively furthered the standardization of scientific and technical advances, effectively furthered research in how to overcome still existing faults and deficits in the current structure of standardization. The proactive innovation capability of businesses has been improved; the flexibility and production capacity of industrial structures in the Chinese new and high technology has been strengthened.
(Source: SAC)