The inspection, testing, and certification industry will usher in these new changes


Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Action Plan for Building a High-Standard Market System" and notified all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it according to their actual conditions.

Certification experts have thoroughly read the full text of the "Action Plan" and organized the content related to inspection and testing, certification and accreditation, standards, and quality as follows:

Improve quality management policies and measures. Improve the compulsory product certification system and establish a scientific and reasonable dynamic adjustment mechanism for the certification catalog.

Optimize the enterprise standard "leader" system. Promote third-party evaluation agencies to release a batch of enterprise standard rankings, guiding more enterprises to publicly declare higher quality standards. Revise the enterprise standardization management measures and streamline compulsory standards.

Deepen openness and cooperation in the field of competition rules. Promote the connection of domestic and foreign trade laws and regulations, regulatory systems, business qualifications, quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation, etc. Promote close integration of inspection, testing, and certification with overseas investment and capacity cooperation projects, strengthen the training of international conformity assessment talents, and actively participate in the formulation of relevant international standards and rules for certification and accreditation.

Promote the alignment of domestic and international standards for consumer goods. Formulate and revise a batch of national standards and their testing methods in fields such as medical electrical appliances, disinfectants, intelligent lighting appliances, household appliances, student supplies, and infant formula foods, and increase the adoption of international standards. Implement the project of same line, same standard, and same quality for domestic and export products, and actively promote high-end quality certification in the consumer goods sector.

Leverage the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce. Encourage industry associations and chambers of commerce to formulate and release product and service standards, and participate in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, group standards, and related policies and regulations.

Leverage the supervisory role of market specialized service organizations. Implement a notification and commitment system for the qualification accreditation of inspection and testing institutions nationwide, deepen the market-oriented reform of inspection and testing institutions and certification bodies, and promote the development of third-party inspection, testing, and certification institutions.

 

 

The full text of the "Action Plan for Building a High-Standard Market System" is as follows.

Building a high-standard market system is an important part of accelerating the improvement of the socialist market economic system. It is of great significance to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other. To thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, build a more mature and more established high-level socialist market economic system, and further stimulate the vitality of various market entities, the following action plan is formulated for building a high-standard market system.

I. Overall Requirements

 

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the CPC and the second, third, fourth, and fifth plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee. Firmly implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, focus on promoting high-quality development, take deepening supply-side structural reform as the main line, reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose. Fully leverage the decisive role of the market in resource allocation and better play the role of the government. Firmly grasp the strategic base of expanding domestic demand, adhere to equal access, fair supervision, openness and order, integrity and law-abiding, smooth market circulation, unblock policy bottlenecks, open up the main artery of circulation, promote market quality and efficiency improvement. Through about five years of efforts, basically build a unified, open, competitive, orderly, complete in system, and well-governed high-standard market system, laying a solid foundation for promoting high-quality economic development, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

II. Consolidate the Basic Market System

 

(1) Fully improve the property rights protection system

1. Improve the legal and regulatory system for equal protection of property rights. Promote the implementation of the Eleventh Amendment to the Criminal Law, implement provisions to combat crimes involving infringement of property rights of non-public enterprise staff, and strengthen criminal law protection of property rights in the non-public economy. Issue and implement provisions on several issues concerning the trial of administrative cases for patent authorization and confirmation. Improve supporting regulations related to the Patent Law and Copyright Law. Further refine and improve various systems for state-owned property rights transactions. Conduct a comprehensive review of regulations that treat property rights of different ownership types differently.

2. Improve the enforcement and judicial protection system for property rights. Launch the second batch of retrials for property rights dispute cases. Improve complaint, review, and retrial mechanisms for enterprise-related property rights protection cases. Promote the normalization and institutionalization of mechanisms for identifying and correcting wrongful property rights cases according to law. Summarize successful experiences from special governance actions on government-related property rights disputes and study the establishment of normalized working mechanisms. Strictly regulate the procedures for handling case-related property by public security, procuratorate, and courts, and establish and improve an effective connected system for handling case-related property.

3. Strengthen intellectual property protection. Promote the implementation of provisions on several issues concerning the trial of civil cases involving trade secret infringement, issue provisions on several issues concerning the trial of civil patent cases related to drug marketing approval, and formulate and issue interpretations on several issues concerning the application of punitive damages for intellectual property infringement. Strictly enforce the punitive damages system for malicious infringement, long-term continuous infringement, trademark infringement, and other behaviors. Explore the establishment of a rapid response mechanism for intellectual property infringement. Complete the formulation and revision of departmental regulations such as trademark agency management measures, geographical indication product protection regulations, and official mark protection measures. Study and formulate rules for drug patent protection and intellectual property protection in the cross-border e-commerce field, and compile and publish enterprise intellectual property protection guides and country-specific intellectual property protection guides. Optimize application and examination procedures for patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property, improve examination efficiency, and shorten examination time. Establish and improve the evaluation and management system for intangible assets such as patents and trademarks.

4. Improve the rural collective property rights system. Fully promote pilot reforms of the rural collective property rights system, improve the confirmation and protection system for rural collective property rights, and establish and improve classification systems for collective asset inventory, registration, custody, use, disposal, and financial management supervision. Regulate rural property rights transfer and transactions, effectively prevent a few individuals within collective economic organizations from occupying or illegally disposing of collective assets, and prevent external capital from encroaching on or illegally controlling collective assets. Improve comprehensive service systems for collective property asset evaluation, transfer transactions, and guarantees, and strengthen standardized management and services for the transfer of rural land management rights.

(2) Fully implement the negative list system for market access

5. Fully implement the "national unified list" management model. Strictly prohibit regions and departments from independently issuing negative lists with market access nature. Improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism for the negative list of market access. Establish a ledger of implicit market access barriers covering provincial, municipal, and county levels, and smooth channels for market entities to provide feedback and for handling and responding to implicit barriers. Develop market access efficiency evaluation standards and conduct comprehensive evaluations.

6. Carry out pilot projects to relax market access. Formulate and implement special measures to relax market access in the Hainan Free Trade Port, Shenzhen's pilot demonstration area for socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao deep cooperation zone. Select qualified regions to carry out pilot projects to relax market access.

7. Promote the facilitation of enterprise deregistration. Implement simplified deregistration procedures for non-operating and non-listed enterprises and individual businesses without creditor's rights and debts. Improve the online service platform for enterprise deregistration and optimize deregistration processes. Establish simplified trial models for enterprise bankruptcy cases, and implement simplified bankruptcy procedures for enterprises with small asset amounts and limited operating regions. Carry out pilot reforms of the personal bankruptcy system.

(3) Fully improve the fair competition system

8. Strengthen the rigid constraints of the fair competition review system. Explore the establishment of a reporting, handling, and response mechanism for fair competition review, and promptly verify issues involved in reports. Improve the fair competition review mechanism, further clarify and refine the categories of policy measures included in the review scope. Issue guidelines for the application of exceptions to fair competition review, establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for exceptions and a real-time adjustment mechanism for major matters. Study and formulate industry-specific review rules, further refine identification standards.

9. Strengthen and improve antitrust and anti-unfair competition law enforcement. Firmly oppose monopoly and unfair competition behaviors. Develop antitrust guidelines and exemption system application guidelines for special fields such as raw materials, and issue compliance guidelines for enterprises' overseas antitrust. Promote the improvement of legal norms regarding monopoly identification of platform enterprises, data collection and usage management, and consumer rights protection. Strengthen antitrust and anti-unfair competition regulation in new business forms such as platform economy and sharing economy. Improve the directory system for enterprise-related fees and severely investigate and punish illegal fee charges involving enterprises.

10. Break down regional segmentation and local protectionism. Improve the market competition status assessment system. Encourage regions to build unified cross-regional market access service systems, unify identity real-name authentication mutual recognition, unify the industry vocabulary database for autonomous name declaration, and unify the enterprise business scope database to achieve cross-regional registration with no difference in standards. Except as clearly stipulated by laws and regulations, enterprises shall not be required to register in a specific location, nor shall obstacles be set for enterprises to relocate across regions. Build cross-regional mechanisms for market supervision case transfer, law enforcement assistance, and joint law enforcement; for new, difficult, and typical cases, smooth consultation channels and unify discretion standards.

III. Promote Efficient Allocation of Factor Resources

 

(4) Promote Market-oriented Allocation of Operational Land Factors

11. Deepen land management system reform. Strengthen management and tracking evaluation of land use plans, improve the annual total construction land control system, perfect the land guarantee mechanism for major projects, implement "increase-storage linkage," and have provincial governments take more responsibility for the use of urban and rural construction land quotas. Promote pilot projects for entrusted land use approval authority, establish and improve the provincial government land use approval work evaluation mechanism, and dynamically adjust pilot provinces based on comprehensive evaluation results of land management levels in provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities).

12. Improve the construction land market system. Under the premise of complying with national spatial planning and land use control requirements, promote reasonable conversion of different industrial land types and explore increasing the supply of mixed industrial land. Actively explore the implementation of the rural collective operational construction land market entry system. Accelerate the construction of a unified urban-rural construction land market, unify trading rules and platforms, improve the formulation and release system of urban-rural benchmark land prices and designated land prices, and form a dynamic adjustment mechanism linked to market prices.

13. Carry out pilot projects for cross-regional trading of land quotas. Evaluate the implementation of policies for cross-provincial adjustment of surplus quotas from urban and rural construction land increase-decrease linkage, and explore establishing a national cross-regional trading mechanism for construction land quotas. Improve the national coordination mechanism for supplementary farmland across provinces, and steadily promote the implementation of national coordination for supplementary farmland. In qualified areas, explore establishing intra-provincial cross-regional supplementary farmland quota trading markets, and improve trading rules and service systems.

(5) Promote Orderly Flow of Labor Factors

14. Promote mutual recognition of cumulative household registration entry years within the same city. Except for mega and super-large cities, explore implementing mutual recognition of household registration entry years within metropolitan areas or city clusters where conditions permit, pilot the household registration system based on the place of habitual residence, and orderly guide population settlement. Improve the national unified social insurance public service platform and promote social security transfer and continuation. Accelerate the construction of medical security information systems, build a nationwide unified, multi-level interconnected data sharing and exchange system, and promote cross-regional, cross-level, and cross-department business collaboration.

15. Improve the quality of human resource services. Accelerate the development of the human resource service industry, simplify and optimize human resource service licensing processes, and strengthen mid- and post-event supervision of the human resource market. Rely on professional talent service agencies, industry associations, and other social organizations with strong service capabilities and levels to form socialized evaluation agencies, and conduct socialized professional title evaluations for professional series with strong specialization, wide social applicability, and high standardization.

(6) Promote Healthy Development of Capital Markets

16. Steadily advance the reform of the stock issuance registration system. Adhere to the positioning of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, highlight the "hard technology" characteristics, evaluate and improve the pilot arrangements of the registration system, and deepen the reform of the stock issuance registration system centered on information disclosure. Improve investor protection systems, establish investor suitability systems matching market segments and product risk characteristics, and encourage and regulate cash dividends of listed companies. Strengthen capital market supervision, enhance comprehensiveness, consistency, scientificity, and effectiveness of supervision, improve transparency and legal governance levels. Financial reform measures with inadequate supervision shall not be rashly introduced. Maintain zero tolerance for illegal and irregular behaviors to ensure steady and long-term financial reform.

17. Establish a normalized delisting mechanism. Further improve delisting standards, simplify delisting procedures, and smooth diversified exit channels. Strictly implement the delisting system, resolutely delist those meeting delisting standards, and severely crack down on malicious evasion of delisting standards.

18. Cultivate institutional investors in the capital market. Steadily promote the establishment of bank wealth management subsidiaries and insurance asset management companies, encourage banks and their wealth management subsidiaries to cooperate legally and compliantly with qualified securities fund management institutions, venture capital funds, and government-funded industrial investment funds, and study and improve related policies for insurance institutions investing in private wealth management products, private equity funds, venture capital funds, government-funded industrial investment funds, and debt-to-equity swaps. Increase the equity investment proportion of various pensions, insurance funds, and other long-term funds, and carry out long-cycle assessments.

19. Reduce financing costs for the real economy. Improve the market-based interest rate formation and transmission mechanism, promote banks' use of the Loan Prime Rate (LPR), guide and urge financial institutions to price reasonably, and make good use of monetary policy tools such as targeted reserve requirement cuts, re-lending, and rediscounting. Actively and prudently develop inclusive finance, and actively and prudently promote innovation in financial products and service methods. Increase the promotion of the "Credit Easy Loan" model, support credit financing, and expand the scope of loan collateral and pledge.

(7) Develop Knowledge, Technology, and Data Factor Markets

20. Innovate mechanisms to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Formulate and issue opinions to improve the evaluation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements and promote their transformation, enhancing the market-oriented allocation capacity of technological factors. Revise and release rules for the identification of technology contracts and registration methods for scientific and technological achievements, and strengthen the standardized management of technology contracts and scientific and technological achievements. Improve the national technology transfer system, cultivate and develop national technology transfer institutions, establish a national technology transfer talent training system, and improve professional service capabilities such as technical evaluation and screening, intellectual property operation, and commercialization consulting for technology transfer personnel.

21. Improve the property rights system for work-related scientific and technological achievements. Deepen the pilot granting ownership or long-term use rights of work-related scientific and technological achievements to researchers, and explore new incentive models for property rights of work-related scientific and technological achievements. Summarize pilot experiences in a timely manner, improve incentive policies for the transformation of work-related scientific and technological achievements, and the benefit-sharing mechanism for researchers' work invention achievements.

22. Accelerate the cultivation and development of the data factor market. Formulate and issue a new batch of data sharing responsibility lists, strengthen data sharing and exchange between regions and departments. Study and formulate opinions to accelerate the cultivation of the data factor market, establish basic systems and standards for data resource property rights, transaction circulation, cross-border transmission, and security, and promote the development and utilization of data resources. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards in the digital field.

23. Establish intellectual property and scientific and technological achievements property transaction institutions. Support institutions such as China Technology Exchange, Shanghai Technology Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, etc., to build national intellectual property and scientific and technological achievements property transaction institutions, carry out intellectual property transfer, licensing, and other operational services nationwide, and accelerate the development of technology transaction services.

4. Improve and enhance the market environment and quality

 

(8) Improve the quality of goods and services

24. Improve quality management policies and measures. Deeply implement quality improvement actions. Further improve quality incentive policies, establish a long-term mechanism for promoting and publicizing advanced quality management experiences of enterprises and individuals awarded government quality awards. Improve the self-declaration disclosure and supervision system for enterprise product and service standards. Improve the mandatory product certification system and establish a scientific and reasonable dynamic adjustment mechanism for the certification catalog. Improve the product injury monitoring and prevention intervention system, and improve the defective product recall system and the mandatory reporting system for product quality and safety accidents.

25. Optimize the enterprise standard "leader" system. Promote third-party evaluation agencies to release a batch of enterprise standard rankings, guiding more enterprises to publicly declare higher quality standards. Revise the enterprise standardization management measures and streamline compulsory standards.

26. Further leverage the leading role of brands. Strengthen the registration and protection of agricultural product trademarks and geographical indication trademarks. Organize China Brand Day activities well, improve the registration management system for collective trademarks and certification trademarks, and create a batch of regional brands with distinctive characteristics, strong competitiveness, and good market reputation. Carry out "Double Brand Online Shopping Festival" activities to promote brand consumption and quality consumption.

27. Promote innovative development of the commodity market. Establish a key market contact mechanism, carry out special actions for optimizing and upgrading the commodity market, and cultivate a batch of commodity market demonstration bases with prominent business characteristics, strong industrial chain and supply chain service functions, and integrated online and offline development.

(9) Strengthen consumer rights protection

28. Strengthen the construction of consumer rights protection system. Formulate implementation regulations for the Consumer Rights Protection Law. Improve the consumer public interest litigation system, explore the establishment of a consumer collective litigation system, and strengthen judicial protection for consumers in litigation procedures, court trials, burden of proof, and other aspects. Support consumer associations in exercising public interest litigation rights.

29. Simplify the handling procedures for consumer disputes. Clarify the amount for small consumer disputes as soon as possible, improve the judicial procedures for small consumer disputes, and encourage small consumer dispute cases to be quickly handled through small claims procedures. Improve the online resolution mechanism for consumer disputes, smooth complaint and reporting channels, and explore the establishment of a consumer feedback evaluation mechanism for rights protection results.

(10) Strengthen market infrastructure construction

30. Promote interconnection of market infrastructure. Continuously improve the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network. Strengthen the application of new generation information technology in railways, highways, water transport, civil aviation, postal services, and other fields to enhance comprehensive operational efficiency. Support the construction of public express sorting and processing centers, intelligent delivery facilities, etc. Build a batch of Internet of Things industry bases and Internet of Things technology application demonstration cities. Continue to support the construction and collaborative sharing of urban-rural fringe, county, and rural commercial infrastructure in central and western regions, and smooth circulation networks between regions and between urban and rural areas.

31. Implement intelligent market development demonstration projects. Actively develop "smart stores," "smart blocks," "smart business districts," and "smart communities," and build a batch of intelligent consumer comprehensive experience centers. Increase investment in new infrastructure, promote the construction of communication network infrastructure such as 5G, Internet of Things, and industrial Internet, new technology infrastructure such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain, and computing power infrastructure such as data centers and intelligent computing centers. Based on the development needs of regional markets such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Yangtze River Delta, and Hainan Free Trade Port, build secure and convenient dedicated international internet data channels and international data information channels for typical scenarios such as cross-border e-commerce, cross-border express logistics, cross-border payment, and supply chain management.

32. Guide the healthy development of platform enterprises. Support the innovative development of platform enterprises and enhance international competitiveness. Implement renovation and upgrading projects for network infrastructure in education, medical care, express logistics, etc., promote the development of new service platforms such as internet medical care, online education, third-party logistics, instant delivery, online office, and online government services, and effectively play the role of platform enterprises in optimizing and integrating factor allocation. Smooth the flow of market data information, integrate online and offline payment and transaction data, and promote cross-departmental sharing. Regulate the development of the platform economy according to law and strengthen supervision of platform enterprises.

33. Cultivate and develop energy commodity trading platforms. Through various means such as joint-stock reform and mergers and acquisitions, actively cultivate and form trading platforms with standardized operations and considerable influence in fields such as oil and gas, electricity, and coal. Support the Shanghai Futures Exchange, national power trading institutions, and national coal trading centers to fully play their roles, further improve trading mechanisms, perfect trading rules, and strictly regulate standards. Encourage resource-based regions with conditions to explore the construction of regional energy resource trading centers based on existing trading venues.

5. Implement high-level market opening-up

 

(11) Orderly expand market opening of the service industry

34. Orderly expand market opening of the financial service industry. Support social capital to legally enter financial services such as banking, securities, asset management, and bond markets. Allow the establishment of foreign capital-controlled joint venture banks, securities companies, and wholly foreign-owned or joint venture asset management companies within the territory. Coordinate the opening of the interbank and exchange bond markets to foreign entities, optimize access standards and issuance management, clarify the overall institutional framework for opening China's bond market to foreign entities, and study and formulate management measures for overseas institutions issuing bonds in the exchange bond market. Support qualified private financial institutions and domestic foreign-funded financial institutions to obtain Class A lead underwriter qualifications for non-financial corporate debt financing instruments and participate in the interbank bond market.

35. Orderly expand market opening of the social service industry. Focus on fields such as medical care, education, sports, childcare, environmental protection, and municipal services, reduce market access restrictions, and remove unreasonable restrictions on profit-making medical and educational institutions in licensing, equipment purchase, and other aspects. Improve the planning method for medical institution setup, implement guiding planning for social-run medical institutions, and strengthen services for social capital investment in medical institutions.

36. Improve the pre-establishment national treatment plus negative list management system for foreign investment access. Further reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, expand the encouraged foreign investment industry catalog, support foreign capital to increase innovation investment, create a fair market environment where domestic and foreign enterprises are treated equally and compete fairly. Ensure the landing of major foreign investment projects, remove various implicit market access barriers, build a market-oriented, law-based, and international business environment, and improve foreign investment service levels.

37. Improve policies guiding the repatriation of overseas consumption. Encourage key cities to add a batch of outbound tax refund stores, and under the premise of effective supervision and controllable risks, promote the "buy now, refund immediately" business in qualified outbound tax refund stores. Increase the number of duty-free cities and stores on Hainan Island.

(12) Promote rule-based and institutional opening-up

38. Deepen openness and cooperation in the field of competition rules. Actively promote negotiations on topics such as competition policies in multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements, strengthen multilateral and bilateral cooperation and exchanges in the competition field, continuously deepen reforms, and improve cooperation levels. Promote the alignment of domestic and foreign trade laws and regulations, regulatory systems, business qualifications, quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation, etc. Promote close connection between inspection, testing, certification, and overseas investment and capacity cooperation projects, strengthen the training of international conformity assessment personnel, and actively participate in the formulation of relevant international standards and rules for certification and accreditation.

39. Promote the alignment of domestic and international standards for consumer goods. Formulate and revise a batch of national standards and their testing methods in fields such as medical electrical appliances, disinfectants, intelligent lighting appliances, household appliances, student supplies, and infant formula foods, and increase the adoption of international standards. Implement the project of same line, same standard, and same quality for domestic and export products, and actively promote high-end quality certification in the consumer goods sector.

6. Improve the modern market supervision mechanism

 

(13) Promote comprehensive coordinated supervision

40. Fully implement "double random, one public" supervision. Improve and strictly enforce the list of inspection items, establish and improve the coordination mechanism between industry regulatory departments and comprehensive regulatory departments, and promote the normalization of joint "double random, one public" supervision by departments. Strengthen unified collection and sharing of enterprise-related information among government departments. Improve "Internet + supervision" to achieve online handling of important regulatory business, timely information uploading, and prompt problem handling.

41. Improve the inclusive and prudent regulatory system for new business formats. According to the principles of encouraging innovation and equal protection, implement inclusive and prudent regulation for new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models, applying corresponding regulatory rules and standards by category, strengthening and standardizing supervision during and after the fact, and prohibiting simple bans or lack of regulation.

(14) Strengthen supervision in key areas

42. Strengthen price regulation in key commodity markets. Establish a linkage mechanism between price monitoring and price regulation, improve price regulation rules, and enhance price monitoring of important livelihood goods and resource products. Integrate investigation and monitoring resources from departments and market institutions for key markets, and establish an intelligent support platform for price regulation.

43. Strengthen supervision of factor market transactions. Improve market-oriented factor trading platforms, gradually promote full-process electronic trading, standardize rules for various trading platforms, and improve the information disclosure system for factor transactions. Expedite the formulation of technical market transaction management systems, establish data transaction guidelines, improve complaint and reporting investigation mechanisms, and regulate trading behaviors.

(15) Improve the self-discipline and regulatory mechanisms based on law and integrity

44. Improve the credit commitment system for market entities. Rely on credit information sharing platforms at all levels and industry credit information systems to record the fulfillment of commitments by market entities in credit records according to relevant regulations, serving as an important basis for supervision during and after the fact. Provide convenience measures for market entities that fulfill their commitments based on credit records; impose restrictions on those that do not fulfill commitments according to the severity of the situation and law. Improve enterprise credit repair and objection handling mechanisms. Review administrative licensing and government service items where credit commitments can be made, develop standardized credit commitment forms, and disclose them to the public through credit portals at all levels. Encourage market entities to proactively make credit commitments to society.

45. Vigorously promote credit-based graded and classified supervision. Promote deeper implementation of credit-based graded and classified supervision in more key areas such as tax management, import and export, ecological and environmental protection, medical security, and pharmaceutical procurement. Adopt differentiated regulatory measures based on the credit status of regulated entities to provide more precise and convenient services to market entities.

(16) Improve social supervision mechanisms

46. Leverage the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce. Formulate implementation opinions to promote the standardized and healthy development of industry associations and chambers of commerce, encourage them to establish and improve industry self-discipline norms and self-discipline conventions, and regulate member behavior. Encourage industry associations and chambers of commerce to develop and release product and service standards, and participate in the formulation of national standards, industry standards, group standards, and relevant policies and regulations.

47. Leverage the supervisory role of market specialized service organizations. Accelerate the cultivation of third-party service agencies and market intermediary organizations to enhance the market's professional service capabilities. Implement a notification and commitment system for qualification accreditation of inspection and testing institutions nationwide, deepen the market-oriented reform of inspection, testing, and certification institutions, and promote the development of third-party inspection, testing, and certification institutions.

48. Leverage public and media supervision. Strengthen policy publicity to better utilize media supervision, improve incentive mechanisms for public participation in supervision, revise and improve the reward reporting system, and refine the identification rules and penalty systems for malicious defamation of producers and operators and "fake" behaviors that disrupt normal market order. Establish and improve the consumer complaint information disclosure system.

(17) Strengthen supervision of regulatory agencies

49. Improve the supervision mechanism for regulatory agencies fulfilling their duties. Strengthen supervision and inspection of regulatory agencies' lawful performance of regulatory duties to promote standardized and transparent operation of regulatory powers. Strictly hold regulatory agencies accountable according to regulations and laws for inaction or misconduct. Promote regulatory departments to establish and improve relevant systems for staff integrity, achieving lawful, fair, and clean regulation.

(18) Maintain market safety and stability

50. Improve the system and mechanism for maintaining market safety. Implement the overall national security concept, pay high attention to risks and challenges in market operation and market system security issues, closely monitor changes in domestic and international important commodity markets, service markets, and factor markets, improve policy reserves, and dynamically update the policy toolbox. Improve work coordination and information sharing between macroeconomic management departments and market regulatory departments, strengthen cross-departmental coordinated supervision of key markets and market infrastructure. Improve the security review mechanism and emphasize the use of internationally accepted rules to safeguard national security.

51. Actively prevent risks of abnormal market fluctuations and external shocks. Strengthen monitoring, forecasting, and early warning of key market transactions such as bulk commodities, capital, technology, and data, and study and formulate response plans for major market risk shocks. Improve the system for financial risk prevention, early warning, disposal, and accountability. Enhance the ability to identify anti-competitive behaviors and early warning of market operation risks through big data and other means, and strengthen market expectation management.

Adhere to and strengthen the Party's leadership in building a high-standard market system, enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Self-confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds," integrating the Party's leadership throughout the entire process of building a high-standard market system to ensure reforms always proceed in the right direction. All regions and departments should fully recognize the importance of building a high-standard market system, improve work mechanisms according to their responsibilities, act proactively, break down parochialism, enhance cooperation awareness, earnestly implement the action plan, and support regions with conditions to carry out demonstration construction of a high-standard market system. The National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Ministry of Commerce are responsible for overall coordination and implementation of related tasks, timely tracking, evaluation, supervision, and guidance of the action plan implementation, and promoting the effective implementation of all work. Important situations should be reported and requested for instructions in a timely manner according to procedures.

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