Standards first help "Chongqing cars go overseas" Chinese and African guests discuss the coordinated development of the automobile and motorcycle industry

China News Service, Chongqing, November 10 (Liang Qinqing) The Chongqing Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau revealed on the 10th that the Chongqing Institute of Quality and Standardization recently organized the "Chongqing Cars Going Overseas" special dialogue on China-Africa standards cooperation in Beijing to deepen pragmatic cooperation between China and Africa in the field of standardization and help Chongqing's automobile and motorcycle industry better explore the African market.

Fully relying on the "Chongqing Cars Going Overseas" quality certification, inspection and testing service platform, this meeting brought together officials, representatives of standardization technical institutions and academic circles from 14 African countries, as well as representatives of domestic automobile and motorcycle enterprises, testing and standardization technical institutions such as Changan Automobile, Xinyuan Motorcycle, Zongshen Motorcycle, China Automotive Research Institute, China Merchants Automotive Research Institute, etc. to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as vehicle access regulations, mutual recognition of standards, and collaborative construction of testing capabilities.

Based on the perspective of China-Africa automobile and motorcycle industry cooperation, representatives of Chinese companies participating in the meeting shared their practical accumulation in the field of product standard docking and compliance certification. They conducted exchanges around jointly breaking standards and technical obstacles and promoting the coordinated development of the two industries. At the same time, based on the actual situation of the industry, they proposed cooperation expectations to promote mutual recognition of standards and carry out two-way testing collaboration.

Representatives of standardization agencies from various African countries introduced their respective motor vehicle regulatory systems, vehicle market access and certification and acceptance management systems. Based on the actual development of the local automobile and motorcycle industry, they fully exchanged opinions and suggestions with the Chinese side on specific content such as the docking of standards and rules, the construction of testing systems, and market supervision, and conducted multi-dimensional interactive consultations.

At the meeting, Dai Linhu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the China Institute of Standardization, elaborated on the practical basis and development direction of standardization cooperation between China and Africa, emphasizing the use of standards to promote the connection of rules and cooperation to promote industrial synergy, and to contribute the power of standards to deepening China-Africa economic and trade cooperation and promoting mutual benefit and win-win results in the automobile and motorcycle industry.

Based on the development status of Chongqing's automobile and motorcycle industry, Dai Peng, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, put forward cooperation expectations on deepening the mutual recognition of vehicle standards, collaborative joint construction of inspection and testing, and interactive exchanges of technical talents between China and Africa. He expressed that we should give full play to the role of standards as a bond and build a solid foundation for mutually beneficial cooperation in the automobile and motorcycle fields between China and Africa.

Chinese and foreign guests attending the meeting generally believed that standards are an important technical language for international trade. The Chinese and African automobile and motorcycle industries are highly complementary. Promoting the docking of standards and rules and the coordination of inspection and testing are important technical supports for deepening bilateral economic and trade cooperation. All parties will continue to maintain regular communication, actively explore ways to achieve mutual recognition of standards, and jointly build and share testing capabilities, and promote the transformation of standardization cooperation results into tangible industrial results. This will not only help the local automobile and motorcycle industry in Africa improve and upgrade, but also protect Chinese automobile and motorcycle products to deeply penetrate the African market.