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China’s National Standardization Development Outline: Policy Implications and Future Directions

31 Mar 2022

We can also surmise that the formulation of the Standardization Development Outline required more collaboration and coordination among a wider range of government agencies from the fact that the press conference held by the State Council Information Office to announce the Outline saw the presence of the directors of various departments including Tian Shihong, the Vice Director of State Administrat. [...] Second is the “Belt and Road.” Although the “Main Points of National Standardization 2020” clearly mentioned the need to “promote the soft connectivity of standards” in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Outline puts it as follows: “actively promote cooperation in the field of standards with the “Belt and Road” countries, strengthen standardization dialogues with BRICS and APEC countries, dee. [...] The Outline encourages the participation of foreign-invested enterprises in the formulation of standards.13 Among various patterns of standard development by the market, the Outline emphasizes the importance of ‘association standards’ formulated by private associations to meet market needs. [...] With regard to the “openness” of the Outline, the authors say that although the Outline may seem as opening the way for greater industry involvement in the development of standards, “this greater role for industry actors should be seen not as a shift away from the state, but rather as a way of bolstering the capabilities of the state-centered standards system,” and that the Outline “reflects an ab. [...] Risk recognition The report describes the risk of China forcing its own standards on the rest of the world as, “On the direct side, the Chinese document calls for advancing standards alignment within countries that are participating in the Belt and Road Initiative and for ramping up standards-related dialogues with members of the BRIC grouping and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum… But p.
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