Building a National Unified Market: This Is How to Conduct Inspection, Testing, and Certification!

Recently, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market" were released, clarifying key tasks from six aspects: strengthening the unification of basic market system rules, promoting high-standard connectivity of market facilities, creating a unified factor and resource market, advancing high-level unification of goods and services markets, promoting fair and unified market supervision, and further regulating improper market competition and market intervention behaviors.

 

The following is an excerpt of the content related to the testing and certification field:

 

1. Improve the commodity quality system. Establish and improve the quality grading system, widely carry out quality management system upgrade actions, and strengthen management across the entire supply chain, industry chain, and product lifecycle. Deepen the reform of the quality certification system, support social forces to carry out inspection and testing services, explore and promote the construction of regional metrology centers and national product quality inspection and testing centers, and promote cross-industry and cross-regional mutual recognition of certification results. Promote the alignment of quality standards for major consumer goods in key areas with international standards, deepen international cooperation and mutual recognition in quality certification, implement product injury monitoring and preventive intervention, and improve the quality statistics and monitoring system. Promote the use of the same production lines, standards, and quality for domestic and foreign trade products. Further consolidate and expand brand development and exchange platforms such as China Brand Day activities to enhance the influence and recognition of Chinese brands.

 

2. Improve the standards and metrology system. Optimize the structure of government-issued standards and market self-developed standards, and integrate and streamline national and industry standards. Strengthen standard verification, implementation, and supervision, and improve the standard systems in modern circulation, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, Internet of Things, energy storage, and other fields. Deepen social experiments in artificial intelligence and promote the formulation of standards related to intelligent social governance. Promote unified standards in smart home, security, and other fields, and explore the establishment of an intelligent device identification system. Accelerate the formulation of national unified standards and safety specifications for intelligent recognition systems such as facial recognition, finger vein, and iris recognition. Closely align with the needs of strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries, and advanced manufacturing, break through key measurement technologies, develop new standard materials, and continuously improve the national metrology system. Promote fair participation of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises in China's standardization work, and improve the transparency and openness of standard formulation and revision. Carry out international exchanges and cooperation in standards and metrology. Strengthen the internationalization of essential patents for standards and actively participate in and promote the formation of international intellectual property rules.

 

3. It is prohibited to set or disguise access barriers in the form of filing, registration, annual inspection, recognition, certification, designation, or requiring the establishment of branches. Without legal or regulatory basis, enterprises shall not be required to conduct self-testing, inspection, certification, appraisal, notarization, or provide proofs before government services.

 

The full text of the document is as follows:

 

Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market

(March 25, 2022)

 

Building a national unified market is the fundamental support and inherent requirement for constructing a new development pattern. To accelerate the construction of a national unified market from a global and strategic perspective, the following opinions are proposed.

 

I. Overall Requirements

　　

(1) Guiding Ideology. 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 Communist Party of China and its subsequent plenary sessions, promote the great spirit of party building, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, deepen reform and opening up comprehensively, adhere to innovation-driven development, promote high-quality development, take supply-side structural reform as the main line, with the fundamental purpose of meeting the people's growing needs for a better life, coordinate development and security, fully leverage the guiding, normative, and safeguarding role of the rule of law, accelerate the establishment of a nationwide unified market system and rules, break local protectionism and market segmentation, unblock key bottlenecks restricting economic circulation, promote the smooth flow of goods, factors, and resources on a larger scale, accelerate the construction of an efficient, standardized, fair, competitive, and fully open national unified market, comprehensively promote the transformation of China's market from large to strong, and provide strong support for building a high-standard market system and constructing a high-level socialist market economy system.

　　

(2) Working Principles

　　

— Focus on domestic demand and smooth circulation. Create and lead demand with high-quality supply, make production, distribution, circulation, and consumption more smooth, improve market operation efficiency, further consolidate and expand market resource advantages, and make building a super-large domestic market a sustainable historical process.

　　

— Simultaneously establish and break, improve the system. Focus on institutional construction, clarify phased goals and requirements, advance the construction of a unified market in stages, adhere to problem orientation, focus on solving prominent contradictions and problems, accelerate the cleanup and abolition of various regulations and practices that hinder the unified market and fair competition, and break various closed small markets and self-contained small cycles.

　　

— Effective market and proactive government. Adhere to market-oriented and rule-of-law principles, fully play the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, strengthen the foundational position of competition policy, accelerate the transformation of government functions, make full use of the advantages of a super-large market, let demand better guide optimized supply, let supply better serve expanded demand, and use the unified large market to gather resources, promote growth, stimulate innovation, optimize division of labor, and promote competition.

　　

— Systematic coordination and prudent advancement. Continuously improve policy unity, rule consistency, and execution coordination, scientifically grasp the steps and progress of market scale, structure, organization, space, environment, and mechanism construction, adhere to the combination and balance of delegation and regulation, improve government regulatory efficiency, enhance the ability to dynamically maintain market stability and economic security in an open environment, and orderly expand the influence and radiation of the unified large market.

　　

(3) Main Goals

 

— Continuously promote efficient circulation and scale expansion of the domestic market. Leverage market advantages in promoting competition and deepening division of labor, further unblock channels between market efficiency improvement, labor productivity increase, resident income growth, market entity expansion, supply quality improvement, and demand optimization and upgrading, strive to form a mutually reinforcing supply and demand, coordinated production and sales, smooth and efficient domestic circulation, expand market scale and capacity, continuously cultivate and develop a strong domestic market, and maintain and enhance strong attraction to global enterprises and resources.

　　

— Accelerate the creation of a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable business environment. Guided by market entity needs, practice streamlining administration, adhere to law-based administration, fair and just supervision, continuously optimize services, and accelerate the creation of a market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, and internationalized business environment. Fully leverage regional comparative advantages and create a good ecosystem for various market entities to invest and operate according to local conditions.

　　

— Further reduce market transaction costs. Leverage market scale and agglomeration effects, strengthen and improve antitrust and anti-unfair competition law enforcement and judiciary, remove institutional and mechanism barriers hindering market-based allocation of various production factors and circulation of goods and services, and reduce institutional transaction costs. Promote the construction of a modern circulation system and reduce social circulation costs.

　　

— Promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading. Utilize the advantages of a super-large market with abundant application scenarios and amplified innovation returns, guide the effective allocation of innovation resources through market demand, promote the orderly flow and reasonable allocation of innovation factors, improve the system and mechanism for promoting the market application of independent innovation achievements, and support technological innovation and emerging industry development.

　　

— Cultivate new advantages in international competition and cooperation. Supported by the domestic circulation and unified large market, effectively utilize global factors and market resources, better connect the domestic and international markets, promote institutional openness, enhance influence in global industrial, supply, and innovation chains, and improve discourse power in international economic governance.

　　

II. Strengthen the unification of basic market system rules

　　

(4) Improve a unified property rights protection system. Improve the institutional system for the equal protection of property rights of various ownership economies according to law. Improve a unified and standardized law enforcement and judicial system for property rights dispute cases, strengthen coordination among law enforcement and judicial departments, further standardize rules and procedures for compulsory measures related to property rights in law enforcement, further clarify and unify administrative law enforcement and judicial adjudication standards, improve the two-way connection mechanism between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and legally protect enterprise property rights and the personal and property safety of entrepreneurs. Promote innovation in the intellectual property litigation system, improve the cross-regional jurisdiction system of intellectual property courts, and facilitate the docking mechanism between intellectual property litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

　　

(5) Implement a unified market access system. Strictly implement the "National Unified List" management model, strictly prohibit localities and departments from independently issuing negative lists with market access nature, and maintain the unity, seriousness, and authority of the market access negative list system. Study and improve market access efficiency evaluation indicators and steadily carry out market access efficiency evaluations. Conduct market entity registration and filing according to law, establish a national unified registration data standard and an industry vocabulary library for enterprise name self-declaration, and gradually achieve unified expression of business scope registration. Formulate a nationally applicable qualification list, unify and standardize evaluation procedures and management methods, and enhance the effectiveness of nationwide mutual recognition and use.

　　

(6) Maintain a unified fair competition system. Adhere to treating all types of market entities equally and fairly. Improve the framework of the fair competition system and the policy implementation mechanism, establish a coordination and guarantee mechanism between fair competition policies and industrial policies, and optimize and improve the implementation methods of industrial policies. Improve the legal rules system for anti-monopoly, accelerate the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, improve the fair competition review system, study review rules for key fields and industries, improve the review mechanism, unify review standards, standardize review procedures, and improve review efficiency.

　　

(7) Improve a unified social credit system. Compile and issue a national public credit information basic catalog, improve credit information standards, establish a mechanism for sharing and integrating public credit information with financial information, and form a credit information network covering all credit subjects, all categories of credit information, and all regions nationwide. Establish and improve a new regulatory mechanism based on credit, comprehensively promote the credit commitment system, establish a comprehensive evaluation system for enterprise credit status, optimize the allocation of regulatory resources guided by credit risk, and compile and issue a national basic list of dishonest punishment measures according to law and regulations. Improve the incentive mechanism for keeping promises and the punishment mechanism for dishonesty, combining dishonesty punishment with anti-corruption efforts. Improve the credit repair mechanism. Accelerate the advancement of social credit legislation.

　　

3. Promote high-standard connectivity of market facilities

　　

(8) Build a modern circulation network. Optimize the layout of commercial circulation infrastructure, accelerate digital construction, promote the integration of online and offline development, and form more new platforms, new business formats, and new models for commercial circulation. Promote the construction of the national logistics hub network, vigorously develop multimodal transport, and promote the standardized palletized transportation mode. Vigorously develop third-party logistics, support the construction of digital third-party logistics delivery platforms, promote technological and business model innovation in the third-party logistics industry, cultivate a batch of globally influential digital platform enterprises and supply chain enterprises, and promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement in logistics across society. Strengthen the construction of emergency logistics systems, improve the defense level and disaster-bearing capacity of transportation facilities and logistics sites in high-risk disaster areas, and actively prevent risks of supply shortages of important products such as grain and energy. Improve the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, promote the construction of multi-level integrated comprehensive transportation hubs, and promote cross-regional integrated development of transportation facilities. Establish and improve integrated, regionally connected, safe, and efficient infrastructure networks such as telecommunications and energy.

　　

(9) Improve market information exchange channels. Unify the property rights transaction information release mechanism to achieve connectivity of the national property rights transaction market. Optimize important information release channels such as industry announcements and public notices, and promote mutual sharing of public market information in various fields. Optimize market entity information disclosure to facilitate interconnection and interoperability of market entity information. Promote the unified interface construction of information certification platforms of the same type and purpose, improve interface standards, and promote the flow and efficient use of market information. Publicly disclose information on market entities, investment projects, output, capacity, etc., according to law, guiding the dynamic balance of supply and demand.

　　

(10) Promote the optimization and upgrading of trading platforms. Deepen the integration and sharing of public resource trading platforms, study and clarify the standards and methods for including various public resource transactions into a unified platform system. Adhere to the principle of mandatory inclusion, implement and improve the "separation of management and operation" system, expand the coverage of public resource trading platforms to various public resources suitable for market-based allocation, accelerate the full-process electronicization of public resource trading, and actively break down regional barriers in the field of public resource trading. Accelerate the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of commodity markets, and encourage the creation of comprehensive commodity trading platforms. Accelerate the construction of spot and futures markets for bulk commodities, continuously improve trading rules. Encourage trading platforms to cooperate with financial institutions and intermediary agencies, and legally develop a comprehensive service system covering property rights definition, price evaluation, guarantees, insurance, and other businesses.

　　

4. Build unified factor and resource markets

　　

(11) Improve unified urban and rural land and labor markets. Coordinate incremental construction land and stock construction land, implement unified planning, and strengthen unified management. Improve the cross-regional trading mechanism for surplus indicators of urban and rural construction land linkage and supplementary cultivated land indicators. Improve the national unified secondary market for the transfer, lease, and mortgage of construction land use rights. Improve a unified and standardized human resources market system to promote smooth cross-regional flow of labor and talent. Improve fiscal transfer payments and policies linking the scale of new urban construction land with the urbanization of agricultural migrant populations.

　　

(12) Accelerate the development of a unified capital market. Unify registration of movable property and rights guarantees, and develop movable property financing according to law. Strengthen the construction and coordinated supervision of important financial infrastructure, unify supervision standards, and improve access management. Select regional equity markets with safe and standardized operations and strong risk management capabilities to carry out pilot projects for system and business innovation, and strengthen cooperation and connection between regional equity markets and national securities market segments. Promote interconnection of bond market infrastructure to achieve free flow of bond market elements. Develop supply chain finance and provide financial products directly to business entities in various circulation links. Increase supervision of the capital market, improve a regulatory system with clear responsibilities, distinct divisions, and smooth operation, and build a solid safety bottom line to prevent systemic financial risks. Adhere to financial services for the real economy and prevent detachment from the real economy. Set "red and green lights" for capital to prevent disorderly expansion.

　　

(13) Accelerate the cultivation of unified technology and data markets. Establish and improve a national technology transaction market, improve intellectual property evaluation and transaction mechanisms, and promote interconnection of technology transaction markets in various regions. Improve the science and technology resource sharing service system, encourage scientific and technological information exchange and interaction between different regions, promote the opening and sharing of major scientific research infrastructure and instruments, and increase international cooperation in the science and technology field. Accelerate the cultivation of data element markets, establish and improve basic systems and standards for data security, rights protection, cross-border transmission management, transaction circulation, open sharing, and security certification, conduct in-depth data resource surveys, and promote the development and utilization of data resources.

　　

(14) Build a national unified energy market. On the premise of effectively ensuring energy security supply and combined with achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, orderly promote the construction of the national energy market. Based on overall planning and optimized layout, improve the oil and gas futures product system, standardize the construction of oil and gas trading centers, and optimize the layout of key infrastructure such as trading venues and delivery warehouses. Promote interconnection of oil and gas pipeline network facilities and fair opening to various market entities. Prudently advance natural gas market-oriented reforms and accelerate the establishment of a unified natural gas energy measurement and pricing system. Improve a multi-level unified electricity market system and study promoting the timely establishment of a national electricity trading center. Further play the role of the national coal trading center and promote the improvement of a national unified coal trading market.

　　

(15) Cultivate and develop a nationally unified ecological environment market. Rely on public resource trading platforms to build a nationally unified carbon emission rights and water use rights trading market, implementing unified and standardized industry standards and trading supervision mechanisms. Promote market-based trading of pollution discharge rights and energy use rights, explore the establishment of systems for initial allocation, paid use, market trading, dispute resolution, and supporting services. Promote the construction of green product certification and labeling systems to encourage green production and green consumption.

　　

5. Promote a high-level unification of goods and services markets

　　

(16) Improve the commodity quality system. Establish and improve the quality grading system, widely carry out quality management system upgrade actions, and strengthen management across the entire supply chain, industry chain, and product lifecycle. Deepen reform of the quality certification system, support social forces in conducting inspection and testing services, explore and promote the construction of regional metrology centers and national product quality inspection and testing centers, and promote mutual recognition of certification results across industries and regions. Align quality standards for major consumer goods in key fields with international standards, deepen international cooperation and mutual recognition in quality certification, implement product injury monitoring and preventive interventions, and improve the quality statistics and monitoring system. Promote the same line, same standard, and same quality for domestic and foreign trade products. Further consolidate and expand brand development and exchange platforms such as China Brand Day activities to enhance the influence and recognition of Chinese brands.

　　

(17) Improve the standards and metrology system. Optimize the structure of government-issued standards and market self-developed standards, integrate and streamline national and industry standards. Strengthen standard verification, implementation, and supervision, and improve standard systems in modern circulation, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, Internet of Things, energy storage, and other fields. Deepen social experiments in artificial intelligence and promote the formulation of standards related to intelligent social governance. Promote unified standards in smart home and security fields, and explore establishing an intelligent device identification system. Accelerate the formulation of nationally unified standards and safety specifications for intelligent recognition systems such as facial recognition, finger vein, and iris recognition. Closely align with the needs of strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries, and advanced manufacturing, break through key measurement technologies, develop new standard materials, and continuously improve the national metrology system. Promote fair participation of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises in China's standardization work, and increase transparency and openness in standard formulation and revision. Conduct international exchanges and cooperation in standards and metrology. Strengthen the internationalization of essential patents for standards and actively participate in and promote the formation of international intellectual property rules.

　　

(18) Comprehensively improve the quality of consumer services. Improve the consumption environment and strengthen consumer rights protection. Accelerate the improvement and strict implementation of the defective product recall system, promote market entities operating across countries and regions to provide consumers with unified and convenient after-sales services, further smooth channels for cross-location and cross-store returns and exchanges, and enhance consumers' after-sales experience. Open up consumer complaint and reporting channels, optimize the process and feedback mechanism for resolving consumer disputes, and explore promoting coordination and linkage mechanisms among consumer rights protection departments. Establish and improve the consumer complaint information disclosure system to promote source governance of consumer disputes. Improve management methods for prepaid consumption in the service market. Focus on key livelihood areas such as housing, education and training, medical and health care, elderly care, and childcare, promote the formation of a public list of consumer rights protection matters, and improve dispute negotiation and handling methods.

　　

6. Promote fair and unified market supervision

　　

(19) Improve unified market supervision rules. Strengthen administrative legislation on market supervision, improve market supervision procedures, enhance standardization and normalization of market supervision, publicly disclose supervision standards and rules according to law, and enhance the stability and predictability of market supervision systems and policies. For key areas directly related to public health and safety such as food and drug safety, implement the strictest standards, strictest supervision, severest penalties, and most serious accountability. For new business forms such as internet medical services, online education and training, and online entertainment, promote integrated online and offline supervision. Strengthen unified and fair supervision in the engineering construction field, strictly investigate and deal with disciplinary and illegal acts according to discipline and law. Strengthen risk monitoring and supervision sampling of important industrial products, and urge enterprises to fulfill their main responsibility for quality and safety. Fully leverage the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce, establish effective government-enterprise communication mechanisms, and form a new diversified governance model of government supervision, platform self-discipline, industry autonomy, and social supervision.

　　

(20) Strengthen unified market supervision law enforcement. Promote the construction of comprehensive law enforcement capabilities to maintain a unified market, strengthen law enforcement forces for intellectual property protection, anti-monopoly, and anti-unfair competition. Strengthen interdepartmental coordination, establish a working mechanism linking comprehensive regulatory departments and industry regulatory departments, coordinate law enforcement resources, reduce law enforcement levels, unify law enforcement standards and procedures, regulate law enforcement behavior, reduce discretionary power, promote fair and just law enforcement, improve comprehensive law enforcement effectiveness, and explore legally establishing authorized entrusted regulatory law enforcement methods in relevant industries. Encourage joint issuance of unified regulatory policies, laws, regulations, and standards across administrative regions according to regulations, actively carry out joint law enforcement, innovate joint supervision models, and strengthen cooperation in investigation, evidence collection, and case handling.

　　

(21) Comprehensively improve market supervision capabilities. Deepen reforms to streamline administration and delegate power, combine decentralization with regulation, and optimize services. Improve "double random, one public" supervision, credit supervision, "Internet + supervision," cross-department collaborative supervision, and other methods, and strengthen coordination among various types of supervision. Fully utilize technologies such as big data, accelerate the promotion of smart supervision, and enhance informatization levels for cross-province handling and shared collaboration in market supervision government services, online transaction supervision, consumer rights protection, and key product traceability. Establish and improve cross-administrative region network supervision collaboration mechanisms, encourage industry associations, chambers of commerce, news media, consumers, and the public to jointly conduct supervision and evaluation. For new business forms and models, adhere to both regulatory norms and development promotion, and promptly fill gaps in laws and standards.

　　

7. Further regulate improper market competition and market intervention behaviors

　　

(22) Focus on strengthening anti-monopoly. Improve legal rules for identifying monopolistic behaviors, and improve the classification and grading anti-monopoly review system for business operator concentrations. Break platform enterprise data monopolies and other issues, prevent exclusion and restriction of competition through data, algorithms, technical means, and other methods. Strengthen review of business operator concentrations in finance, media, technology, livelihood, and fields involving startups, new business forms, and labor-intensive industries, improve review quality and efficiency, and strengthen monopoly risk identification, early warning, and prevention. Steadily advance reforms in natural monopoly industries, and strengthen supervision of network-type natural monopoly links such as power grids and oil and gas pipelines. Strengthen protection of original innovation and intellectual property rights of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.

 

(23) Investigate and deal with unfair competition behaviors according to law. Strengthen full-chain competition supervision and law enforcement in key industries and fields with strong feedback from market entities and consumers, ensuring fair competition through fair supervision. Strengthen regulation of unfair competition behaviors in new business forms such as platform economy and sharing economy, rectify online black and gray industry chains, and govern new types of online unfair competition behaviors. Improve cross-department and cross-administrative region information sharing and coordination mechanisms for anti-unfair competition law enforcement, enhancing the unity, authority, and coordination of law enforcement. Build cross-administrative region mechanisms for case transfer, law enforcement assistance, and joint law enforcement in anti-unfair competition cases, and keep consultation channels and discretion standards open for new, difficult, and typical cases.

　　

(24) Break down local protectionism and regional barriers. Guide regions to comprehensively compare advantages, resource and environmental carrying capacity, industrial foundation, disaster prevention and risk avoidance capabilities, accurately position their functions, avoid blindly pursuing scale and foreign investment, low-level repetitive construction, and excessive homogeneous competition, avoid "small but complete" self-contained cycles, and never engage in regional blockades under the name of "internal circulation." Establish and publicly disclose a directory of enterprise-related preferential policies in a timely manner, promptly clean up and abolish policies containing local protectionism, market segmentation, designated transactions, and other obstacles to a unified market and fair competition, comprehensively clear discriminatory and protective preferential policies against foreign-funded and non-local enterprises, and strictly conduct fair competition reviews for newly introduced policies. Strengthen coordination and cooperation on industrial transfer projects between regions, establish mechanisms for coordinating and resolving major issues, and promote further optimization of industrial layout and division of labor. Encourage regions to continuously optimize the business environment, conduct investment promotion activities according to law, prevent malicious competition in investment promotion, and attract more high-quality enterprises to invest through high-quality institutional supply and institutional innovation.

 

(Twenty-five) Eliminate and abolish regulations and practices that hinder lawful equal access and exit. Except as explicitly stipulated by laws and regulations, enterprises shall not be required to register in a specific location, nor shall obstacles be set for enterprises to operate or relocate across regions. Unreasonable and discriminatory access and exit conditions shall not be set to restrict the free flow of goods, services, and factor resources. Access barriers shall not be established or disguised in the form of filing, registration, annual inspection, recognition, certification, designation, or requirements to establish branches. In terms of qualification recognition and business licensing, no significantly higher qualification, technical, inspection, or evaluation standards shall be set for non-local enterprises compared to local operators. The preconditions and approval standards for administrative approvals, licenses, filings, and other government services shall be cleaned up and standardized. Government service matters shall not be converted into intermediary services. Without legal or regulatory basis, enterprises shall not be required to conduct self-testing, inspection, certification, appraisal, notarization, or provide proofs before government services. Disguised approvals and paid services are prohibited. Franchise rights shall not be granted to operators without fair competition, nor shall operators be restricted to purchase or use goods and services provided by specific operators.

　　

(Twenty-six) Continue to clean up violations of unified market construction regulations and practices in the bidding and procurement field. The formulation of bidding and government procurement system rules must strictly follow national regulations for fair competition review and legality examination. It is strictly prohibited in bidding and government procurement to illegally restrict or designate specific patents, trademarks, brands, components, origins, or suppliers. Qualification, technical, and commercial conditions that do not match the specific characteristics and actual needs of bidding and procurement projects shall not be illegally set. It is forbidden to illegally restrict bidders by location, ownership form, organizational form, or set other unreasonable conditions to exclude or limit operators from participating in bidding and procurement activities. Promote the full-process electronic bidding and procurement, accelerate the improvement of electronic bidding system rules and technical standards, and promote cross-regional and cross-industry sharing of high-quality evaluation experts and other resources.

　　

VIII. Organization and Implementation Guarantee

　　

(Twenty-seven) Strengthen Party leadership. All regions and departments should fully recognize the importance of building a national unified market for constructing a new development pattern, effectively unify thoughts and actions with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, achieve nationwide coordination, unify the market, ensure smooth circulation, and ensure that all key tasks are implemented.

　　

(Twenty-eight) Improve incentive and restraint mechanisms. Explore and study the national unified market construction standards and guidelines. Regions that actively promote and achieve outstanding results in the construction of the national unified market may be rewarded according to relevant national regulations. Dynamically publish lists of improper interventions in the construction of the national unified market, establish a system for typical case notifications, interviews, and problem rectification, and focus on resolving improper market interventions and unfair competition behaviors that hinder the construction of the national unified market.

　　

(Twenty-nine) Prioritize regional cooperation. In conjunction with major regional strategies and the implementation of regional coordinated development strategies, encourage regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Economic Circle, and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration to prioritize regional market integration work under the premise of maintaining the national unified market, establish and improve regional cooperation mechanisms, and actively summarize, replicate, and promote typical experiences and practices.

　　

(Thirty) Form a joint effort. All regions and departments should, according to their division of responsibilities, implement the requirements of this opinion without fail, conduct self-inspections and cleanups regarding whether there are regulations and actual situations that hinder the construction of the national unified market in their regions and departments. The National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, together with relevant departments, shall establish and improve a departmental coordination mechanism to promote the construction of the national unified market, increase overall coordination efforts, strengthen tracking and evaluation, promptly supervise and inspect, and promote all parties to implement effectively. Strengthen publicity guidance and public opinion supervision to create a good social atmosphere for the construction of the national unified market. Major matters shall be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council in a timely manner.