The State Administration for Market Regulation promulgated the Newly revised Measures for Promoting

Measures to promote enterprise standardization

（Promulgated by Decree No. 83 of the State Administration for Market Regulation on August 31, 2023, effective as of January 1, 2024)

Article 1 These Measures are formulated in accordance with the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China in order to guide enterprises to strengthen the standardization work, enhance the standardization level of enterprises, improve the quality of products and services, and promote high-quality development.

Article 2 These Measures shall apply to the formulation and disclosure of enterprise standards and the promotion, service and supervision and administration of enterprise standardization.

Article 3 Enterprise standards are standards formulated by enterprises for technical requirements, management requirements and work requirements that need to be coordinated and unified within the enterprise.

Article 4 The standardization work of enterprises shall adhere to the principles of government guidance, enterprise main body, innovation drive and quality improvement.

Article 5 The basic task of enterprise standardization is to implement standardization laws, regulations and standardization guidelines, plans and policies; Implement and participate in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, local standards and group standards, and provide feedback on the implementation of standards; Develop and implement enterprise standards; Improve the enterprise standard system, guide employees to consciously participate in the implementation of standards, carry out internal supervision of the implementation of standards, and continuously improve the implementation of standards and related standardization technical activities.

Enterprises are encouraged to establish and improve standardization work systems, have full-time and part-time standardization personnel, promote the application of standardization methods in production, operation and management, carry out standardization publicity and training, improve standardization capabilities, and participate in the formulation of international standards.

Article 6 The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, strengthen the guidance and supervision of the standardization work of enterprises, improve policies and measures, and form a working mechanism for joint promotion.

Article 7 Enterprises shall produce products and provide services in accordance with standards.

Mandatory standards must be implemented, and enterprises may not produce, sell, import or provide products or services that do not meet the mandatory standards. Encourage enterprises to implement recommended standards.

Where there are no relevant standards for the production of products and the provision of services by enterprises, enterprise standards shall be formulated.

Article 8 The formulation of enterprise standards shall comply with the requirements of laws and regulations and mandatory standards.

The formulation of enterprise standards should be conducive to improving economic benefits, social benefits, quality benefits and ecological benefits, so as to be technologically advanced and economically reasonable.

Encourage enterprises to benchmark international standards and domestic and foreign advanced standards, based on innovative technological achievements and good practical experience, develop enterprise standards that are higher than the relevant technical requirements of the recommended standards, and support the improvement of product quality and service level.

Article 9 The procedures for the formulation of enterprise standards generally include project initiation, drafting, soliciting opinions, review, approval and release, review and repeal.

Article 10 Where an enterprise needs to refer to or cite materials when formulating standards, it shall comply with the relevant provisions of the State on intellectual property rights.

References to or references to international standards and domestic and foreign standards shall comply with the relevant provisions of copyright.

Article 11 Enterprises are encouraged to integrate industrial chain, supply chain and innovation chain resources and jointly formulate enterprise standards.

Article 12 The product or service standards formulated by an enterprise shall specify the test methods, inspection methods or evaluation methods.

The test methods, inspection methods or evaluation methods shall refer to the corresponding national standards, industry standards or international standards. Where there is no corresponding standard, the enterprise may formulate test methods, inspection methods or evaluation methods on its own. The test methods, inspection methods or evaluation methods formulated by the enterprise on its own shall be scientific, reasonable, accurate and reliable.

Article 13 The enterprise standards implemented by an enterprise in providing products or services shall be numbered in accordance with uniform rules. The number of enterprise standard consists of enterprise standard code, enterprise code, serial number and year number.

The enterprise standard code is "Q", and the enterprise code can be composed of Chinese pinyin letters or Arabic numerals or both.

Enterprise standards jointly formulated with other enterprises shall be numbered and published separately in the form of enterprise standards.

Article 14 The State implements a system of disclosure and supervision of enterprises' self-declaration of standards. An enterprise shall disclose the number and name of the mandatory standards, recommended standards, group standards or enterprise standards implemented by it in providing products or services.

Where an enterprise implements its own or jointly formulated enterprise standards, it shall disclose the functional indicators and performance indicators of its products and services and the corresponding test methods, inspection methods or evaluation methods. Where laws, regulations and mandatory national standards provide otherwise for the restriction of excessive packaging of commodities, the enterprise shall disclose the packaging standards it adopts in accordance with the relevant provisions.

If the functional indicators and performance indicators disclosed by the enterprise are less than or lower than the recommended standards, they shall be clearly stated when the self-declaration is made public.

The products and services provided by the enterprise shall meet the technical requirements of the standards disclosed by the enterprise.

Article 15 Enterprises shall complete the self-declaration of the implementation of standard information before providing products or services. Where products or services are commissioned for processing or production, the entrusting party shall complete the self-declaration of the implementation standard information and make it public.

When the implementation standards of enterprises change, they shall update the contents of the self-declaration in a timely manner. After the cancellation of registration, the relevant enterprise standards shall be abolished.

Article 16 Enterprises are encouraged to make self-declaration public through the unified enterprise standard information public service platform.

If the self-declaration is made public through other channels, it shall express the open channel in the national unified enterprise standard information public service platform, and ensure that the information disclosed by self-declaration is accessible, traceable and tamper-proof.

Article 17 The State establishes a standard innovation-oriented enterprise system. We will encourage enterprises to establish a system of interconnected innovation in technology, patents and standards.

Article 18 The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall support enterprises to participate in professional standardization technical organizations and encourage enterprises to participate in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, local standards or group standards.

Article 19 The State encourages enterprises to carry out evaluation of the effect of the implementation of standards, and feedbacks the implementation information of standards to the formulation bodies of national standards, industrial standards, local standards and group standards.

Where an enterprise develops a new product, improves its product or carries out technical transformation, it shall evaluate and update the relevant enterprise standards formulated by it.

Article 20 The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall support enterprises to carry out the construction of standardization pilot demonstration projects, encourage enterprises to establish standardized good behaviors, and establish benchmarks for industry development.

Article 21 The State implements the "leader" system of enterprise standards, and promotes the enterprise standards with independent innovation technology, advanced technology and good implementation benefits to become the "leader" of the industry.

Article 22 The State implements a standard credit enhancement system for financing. Encourage social capital to establish a special fund to support enterprise standard innovation in a market-oriented way, encourage and support financial institutions to give credit support to enterprises with a high standard level, and support eligible enterprises to carry out standard transactions, standard pledges and other activities.

Article 23 The State encourages enterprises to continuously carry out standard matching activities in accordance with international standards and foreign advanced standards, so as to improve the level of quality competition of enterprises.

Article 24 The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall support enterprises to participate in international standardization exchanges and cooperation, and encourage enterprises to participate in the work of technical institutions of international standards organizations and participate in the formulation of international standards.

Article 25 The State encourages enterprises, institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions and social organizations to carry out standardized professional and technical services, improve the socialization and marketization of standardized services, and serve the standardization of enterprises.

Article 26 The State encourages institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions and other units to set up standardized courses or specialties and strengthen the education of standardized talents in enterprises.

The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall guide enterprises to improve the standardization personnel training mechanism.

Article 27 The competent departments of Standardization Administration and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with relevant provisions, increase the standard incentives for enterprises that have independent innovative technologies, play a leading and exemplary role, and produce obvious economic and social benefits. Support the inclusion of advanced enterprise standards in the scope of science and technology awards.

Enterprises and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the standardization work shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant provisions.

Article 28 The standardization administrative departments and relevant administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with law, supervise and inspect the standards implemented by enterprises in providing products or services by means of "double random and one open" supervision. Special supervision and inspection may be carried out in special key areas.

Article 29 An enterprise that refuses to provide information or provides false information during supervision and inspection shall be ordered to make corrections; If it refuses to make corrections, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall make a circular or public announcement.

Article 30 Where an enterprise fails to disclose the implementation standards for its products and services, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections within a time limit; If it is not corrected within the time limit, it shall be publicized on the enterprise standard information public service platform.

Article 31 Where the enterprise standards formulated by an enterprise do not conform to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 8, paragraph 2 of Article 8 and Article 12 of these Measures, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a time limit; If it is not corrected within the time limit, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the provincial level shall abolish the enterprise standard and publicize it on the enterprise standard information public service platform.

Article 32 Where the enterprise standards formulated by an enterprise do not conform to the provisions of Article 13 of these Measures, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a time limit; If it is not corrected within the time limit, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the provincial level shall revoke the relevant standard number and publicize it on the enterprise standard information public service platform.

Article 33 Where an enterprise publicly declares that it does not comply with the provisions of Article 14, 15 and 16 of these Measures, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections within a time limit; If it is not corrected within the time limit, it shall be publicized on the enterprise standard information public service platform.

Article 34th enterprises in the development of standards, disclosure of self-declaration and other work there are other illegal acts provided for in these measures, in accordance with the relevant provisions of laws and administrative regulations. Where there is no provision in laws or administrative regulations, the standardization administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level may urge it to make corrections by sending a warning letter or holding an interview. If it is not corrected within the time limit, it shall be publicized on the enterprise standard information public service platform.

Article 35 Where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise for the standardization of enterprises, such provisions shall prevail.

Article 36 These Measures shall come into force as of January 1, 2024. On August 24, 1990, the former State Bureau of Technical Supervision issued No. 13 "Enterprise standardization Management Measures" repealed at the same time.