Authoritative Interpretation | The State Council Information Office Holds a Press Conference on "Implementing the Outline for Building a Quality Power and Focusing on Promoting High-Quality Development"

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2023-03-03 15:35

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The State Council Information Office held a press conference at 3 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, 2023. Invited were Tian Shihong, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the National Standardization Management Committee; Huang Guoliang, Chief Engineer of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the Quality Development Bureau; Gong Zhenzhi, Head of the Industrial Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission; Bi Kaichun, Head of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; and Duan Yongsheng, Director of the Product Quality Safety Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, to introduce the "Implementation Outline for Building a Quality Power to Vigorously Promote High-Quality Development" and answer reporters' questions.

Deputy Director and Spokesperson Xing Huina of the News Bureau of the State Council Information Office:

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon! Welcome to the press conference of the State Council Information Office. Recently, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Outline for Building a Quality Power." Today, we have invited Mr. Tian Shihong, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the National Standardization Management Committee, to introduce the "Implementation Outline for Building a Quality Power to Vigorously Promote High-Quality Development" and answer questions of common concern. Also attending today's press conference are Mr. Huang Guoliang, Chief Engineer of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the Quality Development Bureau; Mr. Gong Zhenzhi, Head of the Industrial Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission; Mr. Bi Kaichun, Head of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; and Mr. Duan Yongsheng, Director of the Product Quality Safety Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation.

Now, I would like to invite Mr. Tian Shihong to give an introduction.

Tian Shihong, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the National Standardization Management Committee:

Good afternoon, media friends! This year marks the beginning of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. High-quality development is the primary task in building a modern socialist country in all respects. Recently, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Outline for Building a Quality Power," which, as a guiding document for the medium- and long-term development of quality work in China, opens a new chapter in building a quality power in the new era and holds significant milestone importance for the development of China's quality cause.

The Party and the country have always attached great importance to quality work. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to focus on improving development quality and efficiency, establish a strong awareness of quality first, make the greatest efforts to comprehensively improve quality, carry out quality improvement actions in depth, promote quality transformation and innovation, shift from "Made in China" to "Created in China," from "China Speed" to "China Quality," and from "Chinese products" to "Chinese brands," accelerating the building of a quality power. General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important statements have pointed the way forward and provided fundamental guidance for quality work in the new era. In implementing Xi Jinping's important instructions and following the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and 24 other departments jointly completed the drafting of the "Outline." Since its issuance, the "Outline" has attracted widespread attention and enthusiastic response throughout society.

The full text of the "Outline" consists of eleven parts and thirty-two articles, divided into four sections: situation and background, overall requirements, main tasks, and organizational guarantees.

In the situation and background section, the "Outline" points out that quality is an important guarantee for human production and life. The world is undergoing unprecedented changes not seen in a century, with a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation deeply developing, triggering profound changes in quality concepts, mechanisms, and practices. It emphasizes that the focus of development must be shifted to improving quality and efficiency, cultivating new economic development advantages centered on technology, standards, brands, quality, and services, and unswervingly advancing the building of a quality power.

In the overall requirements section, the "Outline" clarifies the guiding ideology and proposes two-stage development goals for 2025 and 2035. By 2025, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, it details goals in six aspects: further comprehensive improvement of overall quality level, steady enhancement of Chinese brand influence, significant increase in people's sense of quality gain and satisfaction, more prominent role of quality in promoting economic and social development, and phased achievements in building a quality power. Looking ahead to 2035, the "Outline" sets the goal that the foundation for building a quality power will be more solid, an advanced quality culture will be widely established, and the comprehensive strength of quality and brands will reach a higher level.

In the main tasks section, the "Outline" proposes eight key tasks. First, promote economic development focused on quality and efficiency. Enhance innovation momentum in quality development, establish a green orientation for quality development, and strengthen quality development to benefit the people. Second, enhance industrial quality competitiveness. Strengthen the quality support of industrial foundations, improve industrial quality competition levels, enhance the quality leadership of industrial clusters, and create new regional quality development advantages. Third, accelerate upgrading of product quality. Improve the quality and safety levels of agricultural products, food, and medicines, optimize the supply categories of consumer goods, and promote industrial product quality towards the mid-to-high end. Fourth, improve construction project quality. Strengthen engineering quality assurance, improve the quality level of construction materials, and create an upgraded version of Chinese construction. Fifth, increase the supply of high-quality services. Improve the specialization level of production services, promote the upgrading of life service quality, and enhance the quality and efficiency of public services. Sixth, enhance enterprises' quality and brand development capabilities. Accelerate the application of quality technology innovation, improve comprehensive quality management levels, and strive to create well-known domestic and international brands. Seventh, build high-level quality infrastructure. Optimize quality infrastructure management, strengthen the capacity building of quality infrastructure, and improve the service efficiency of quality infrastructure. Eighth, promote modernization of quality governance. Strengthen quality rule of law construction, improve quality policy systems, optimize quality supervision efficiency, promote social co-governance of quality, and enhance international cooperation on quality.

Focusing on the above key areas and critical links, the "Outline" simultaneously deploys seven major projects: regional quality, product quality, engineering quality, service quality, brand building, quality infrastructure, and quality safety. It also proposes a series of innovative measures such as cultivating and expanding quality-competitive industries, implementing product and service quality grading, promoting coordinated regional quality development, creating benchmarks for building a quality power, advancing classified management of quality infrastructure, and carrying out digital empowerment of quality management.

In the organizational guarantees section, the "Outline" strengthens implementation guarantees from three aspects: strengthening Party leadership, focusing on work implementation, and conducting inspections and evaluations. It clearly proposes important measures such as establishing a coordinated working mechanism for building a quality power, improving the quality supervision and management system, strengthening central quality inspections, and establishing an evaluation mechanism for the implementation of the "Outline," to promote the effective implementation of the "Outline"'s goals and tasks.

I will briefly introduce these contents first. Next, my colleagues from relevant departments and I are willing to answer your questions. Thank you!

Xing Huina:

Thank you, Director Tian, for the introduction. Now, we welcome questions. Please state your news organization before asking.

Xinhua News Agency reporter:

Since the issuance of the "Outline," all sectors have paid great attention. As the action program for coordinating and advancing the building of a quality power in the new era, how should we understand the core essence of the "Outline" and grasp its main content?

Tian Shihong:

Thank you for your question. I will answer it. The formulation and implementation of the "Outline" is a major decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. Studying, publicizing, and implementing the "Outline" well is an important task in advancing the building of a quality power. We should grasp it from four aspects:

First, we must understand the great significance of the promulgation and implementation of the "Outline." The "Outline" is the first medium- and long-term quality guiding document issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, establishing a new position for quality work in the new era, providing an action guide, and injecting strong momentum for coordinating the building of a quality power. Implementing the "Outline" well is an important measure to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, facilitate the transformation of China's economy from large to strong, and achieve high-quality economic and social development. It is also an important way to better meet the people's needs for a better life.

Second, we must grasp the guiding ideology established by the "Outline." The "Outline" is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focuses on promoting high-quality development, prioritizes improving supply quality, relies on reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and aims to meet the people's growing needs for a better life. It deeply implements the strategy of building a quality-strong country, strengthens comprehensive quality management, promotes quality transformation and innovation, and builds a quality-strong country in all respects, providing quality support for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country and the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Third, we must grasp the development goals proposed by the "Outline." Earlier, I introduced the two-stage goals set by the "Outline." By 2025, it will be a critical period for building a quality-strong country. The goals during this period can be understood from six aspects: first, significant improvement in the quality and efficiency of economic development; second, continuous enhancement of industrial quality competitiveness; third, significant improvement in the quality levels of products, projects, and services; fourth, greater progress in brand building; fifth, more modern and efficient quality infrastructure; sixth, a more complete quality governance system. These goals consider both the current foundation of China's quality work and major national development needs, while also taking into account the international quality development environment and trends, providing expectations for building a quality-strong country and having a strong incentive effect.

Finally, we must also grasp the main directions clarified by the "Outline." Specifically, it can be summarized as the construction of "three systems": first, building a more suitable quality supply system. Focus on promoting economic development with quality and efficiency, enhancing regional and industrial quality competitiveness, accelerating the upgrading of products, projects, and services, strengthening enterprises' quality and brand development capabilities, reinforcing systematic planning and overall promotion of quality at macro, meso, and micro levels, and creating an upgraded version of the quality supply system. Second, building a high-level quality infrastructure system. Focus on strengthening the operation monitoring and comprehensive evaluation of quality infrastructure, reasonably arranging national, regional, and industrial quality technology service institutions, implementing the quality infrastructure expansion partnership plan, especially strengthening domestic and international connections and interoperability in metrology, standards, inspection and testing, certification and accreditation, building a "one-stop" integrated service base, and constructing a complete, optimized, efficient, and practical quality infrastructure to better release the service efficiency of quality infrastructure. Third, building a modern quality governance system. Focus on improving quality policies, perfecting quality legislation, optimizing quality supervision, deepening quality inspections and quality work assessments, strengthening grassroots governance, enterprise main responsibility, and industry self-discipline, achieving social co-governance, and creating a good atmosphere where the government values quality, enterprises pursue quality, society esteems quality, and everyone cares about quality.

That's all I have to answer, thank you.

CCTV reporter from China Central Radio and Television Station:

Product and service quality is closely related to production and life, playing an important role in promoting industrial development and improving supply quality. In 2017, the Party Central Committee and the State Council made special arrangements for carrying out quality improvement actions, and this "Outline" again puts forward requirements for quality improvement actions. May I ask, what are the key tasks proposed? What specific measures will be taken next? Thank you.

Chief Engineer of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the Quality Development Bureau, Huang Guoliang:

Thank you for your question. Carrying out quality improvement actions is an important means to build a quality-strong country, and improving the quality of products, projects, and services is an important task in building a quality-strong country. Since the launch of quality improvement actions in 2017, China's overall quality level has significantly improved, strongly supporting China's economic transformation and upgrading, benefiting hundreds of millions of Chinese people and global consumers. This "Outline" once again calls for the deep implementation of quality improvement actions, promoting quality upgrades in all aspects, and makes specific deployments for improving the quality of products, projects, and services.

First, accelerate the upgrading of product quality. Strictly implement the "four strictest" requirements for food safety, carry out supervision covering all entities, all varieties, and the entire chain to ensure the safety of people's food. At the same time, promote personalized customization and flexible production, optimize the supply categories of consumer goods, and promote the transformation of consumer goods quality from production-end compliance to consumption-end adaptation. Increase the supply of high-quality consumer goods for special groups such as the elderly, children, and disabled persons. Benchmark against international advanced standards, promote the same line, same standard, and same quality for domestic and foreign trade products, encourage the import of high-quality consumer goods, improve the quality and unit value of export commodities, and achieve high-quality import and export. Leverage the leading role of industrial design in quality improvement, strengthen quality control throughout the entire process of research and development, design, manufacturing, and after-sales service, and enhance the manufacturing capacity of major technical equipment, thereby promoting the quality of industrial products to move towards the mid-to-high end.

Second, improve the quality of construction projects. Fully implement the engineering quality responsibilities of all parties, strengthen accountability and traceability of quality responsibilities. Improve the quality level of building materials, implement the lifelong responsibility of building material production and supply units, strictly enforce the quality responsibilities of building material users, and strengthen whole-process quality management. Vigorously develop green building materials, build a modern engineering construction quality management system, and create an upgraded version of Chinese construction.

Third, increase the supply of high-quality services. Improve the specialization level of production services, develop intelligent solutions, systematic integration, process reengineering, and other services, especially focusing on promoting precise docking and deep integration of industrial chains with innovation chains and value chains, improving the accuracy and accessibility of service quality upgrades for the real economy. Promote the upgrading of life service quality, focus on cultivating high-quality service brands, and improve the consumer experience. Strengthen the supervision of life service quality to ensure that people enjoy a high-quality life. Strengthen the construction of convenient service facilities, promote integrated handling of government service matters, one-window service, online processing, and cross-province handling, and improve the quality and efficiency of public services.

Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and 18 other departments jointly issued and implemented the "Action Plan for Further Improving the Quality of Products, Projects, and Services (2022-2025)." Next, we will focus on promoting the quality upgrade of livelihood consumption, enhancing the quality competitiveness of the industrial base, guiding the high-quality development of new technologies, new products, and new business formats, and significantly improving service quality, ensuring the implementation of key tasks.

Quality is the ability to meet demands. As people's consumption needs improve, the quality of product and service supply must continuously improve accordingly. We will make every effort to improve quality industry by industry to better meet people's pursuit of a better life. Thank you.

The Paper reporter:

According to statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 3% of well-known brands occupy 40% of the global market share. Behind brands lies market competitiveness. The "Outline for Building a Quality-Strong Country" proposes to continuously hold a series of activities for China Brand Day around brand building. May I ask what specific considerations are planned next? Thank you.

Person in charge of the Industrial Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, Gong Zhenzhi:

Thank you for your attention and emphasis on brand work. We know that brands are an important symbol of high-quality economic development and an intrinsic support for a quality-strong country. On May 10, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during an inspection in Henan that "we must promote the transformation from Made in China to Created in China, from Chinese speed to Chinese quality, and from Chinese products to Chinese brands." Since then, he has repeatedly emphasized the need to "strengthen brand awareness" and "make national brands stronger and bigger." The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to brand building and have designated May 10 each year as "China Brand Day."

As the leading department for brand building, the National Development and Reform Commission has issued and implemented the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Brand Building in the New Era" in recent years, organized the compilation of the annual "China Brand Building Report," and, together with relevant departments and localities, relied on the China Brand Day activity platform to promote our domestic high-quality products, tell the story of Chinese brands well, and promote positive results in China's brand building. Next, we will combine the implementation of the released "Outline for Building a Quality-Strong Country" to promote high-quality brand development from the following aspects.

First, we must organize the Brand Day event with a high starting point. Based on further summarizing experience, strengthening capabilities, and optimizing the model, we will hold the annual event with high quality. This event consists of an exhibition and a forum, namely the China Brand Expo and the China Brand Development International Forum. We will also encourage localities to carry out distinctive brand creation activities according to their actual conditions. Through publicity displays, visits and experiences, and exchanges and mutual learning, we aim to inspire the enthusiasm and confidence of the broad consumer base in supporting independent brands, and also motivate the whole society to deeply engage in brand creation actions.

Second, continuously amplify the event's impact. We will actively promote the integration of excellent traditional Chinese culture and advanced socialist culture into our brand creation practices, and continuously enhance the cultural connotation of brands. On this basis, we will leverage the platforms of media friends to do a good job in promoting our brands, telling the story of Chinese brands comprehensively and from multiple perspectives. In addition, we will strengthen the international communication of brands, enhance their international image, and increase the global recognition and influence of Chinese brands.

Third, further improve the long-term mechanism of the event. While successfully holding the China Brand Day event on May 10 every year, we will work with relevant departments and local organizations to carry out brand building work in succession. This means widely spreading the concept of brand development throughout society all year round, consolidating consensus on brand development, creating an atmosphere for brand cultivation, and forming a sustainable development mechanism where the government provides the platform, enterprises participate, and consumers have expectations.

Fourth, improve the service support system. We will also guide relevant institutions to conduct theoretical research on the development of Chinese characteristic brands and practical work such as brand creation, brand evaluation, and brand operation, and study and promote the establishment of a brand expert think tank. Moreover, we encourage localities to introduce relevant policies and measures for brand building according to their actual conditions, establish and improve incentive and element guarantee mechanisms for brand development, motivate enterprises to implement quality brand strategies, and enhance the ability to manage and operate brands throughout their entire lifecycle.

That is all I have to introduce, thank you.

21st Century Business Herald Reporter:

The "Outline for Building a Quality Power" proposes enhancing industrial quality competitiveness and promoting the quality of industrial products to move towards the mid-to-high end. May I ask what work the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has done in improving manufacturing quality? What are the future considerations? Thank you.

Director Bi Kaichun of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology:

Thank you for your question. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the high-quality development of manufacturing and emphasizes the strategic shift from quantity expansion to quality improvement in manufacturing. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology earnestly studies and implements the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping, follows the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, coordinates the advancement of building a quality power with building a manufacturing power, a cyber power, and a digital China, accelerates the promotion of new industrialization, and solidly promotes the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing.

First, guide enterprises to firmly establish an advanced and scientific quality concept. Establish the idea that product quality is designed, manufactured, and guaranteed through experimental testing, promote enterprises to implement quality work throughout the entire process of research, development, production, and operation, continuously improve enterprises' quality management and quality technology, and push manufacturing towards the mid-to-high end. Second, strengthen quality assurance for major projects and major engineering. Take experimental verification as a key focus of quality work, cooperate with relevant departments to carry out special joint inspections on quality and safety, strengthen coordination and scheduling of major engineering quality, and escort the smooth implementation of major projects such as the C919 large passenger aircraft. Third, deeply implement the manufacturing "three products" special action to promote enterprises to increase varieties, improve quality, and create brands. Guide enterprises to shift to new models of personalized customization and flexible production. Fourth, insist on integrating quality improvement with management, technology, standards, intellectual property, and other aspects. Carry out quality reliability research, promote the standardization of advantageous technologies and innovative achievements, formulate a batch of product quality grading and brand cultivation standards, and vigorously promote advanced and applicable technologies. Fifth, comprehensively improve enterprises' quality management level. Promote advanced quality management experience through activities such as the National Quality Benchmark, popularize advanced quality tools and methods such as reliability design, lean manufacturing, and digital quality management, and solidly promote enterprises to achieve quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Sixth, continuously strengthen the construction of manufacturing quality infrastructure. Establish a number of industrial product quality control and technical evaluation laboratories, national manufacturing innovation centers, key laboratories, and public service platforms for industrial technology foundations, continuously optimize the industrial quality foundation system.

Next, we will earnestly implement the deployments of the "Outline," target the strategic goal of new industrialization and effective improvement of industrial quality, and continuously promote the high-quality development of manufacturing. First, implement the manufacturing excellence quality project. Deeply carry out the advanced quality management system standard implementation, encourage enterprises to climb towards excellent quality, continuously carry out the manufacturing "three products" special action, quality management digital "deep action," and national quality benchmark demonstration, stimulating enterprises' intrinsic motivation to improve quality and efficiency. Second, implement the quality standard brand empowerment special action for small and medium-sized enterprises. Through quality improvement, standard guidance, and brand building, help SMEs improve operational performance and cultivate more specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative SMEs. Third, improve product quality levels centered on reliability. Strengthen innovation and promotion of quality and reliability technologies, improve the reliability standard system, select a batch of typical cases, and provide enterprises with more advanced experiences in quality reliability. Fourth, consolidate the industrial technology foundation. Strengthen the construction of quality basic capabilities such as standards, metrology, and experimental testing, carry out training, consulting, diagnosis, and other services, and continuously consolidate the effectiveness of industrial quality basic services. That is all I have to introduce, thank you.

China News Service Reporter:

Building a quality power cannot be separated from the support of quality infrastructure such as metrology standards and inspection and testing. Could you introduce the importance and current development status of quality infrastructure? Also, what deployments does the "Outline" make regarding the construction of quality infrastructure? Thank you.

Tian Shihong:

Thank you for your question, I will answer it. Quality infrastructure is an important technical foundation for promoting industrial development, technological innovation, international trade, and achieving sustainable development. We also call it the foundation of the foundation. Quality infrastructure is a systematic concept proposed by international organizations such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the International Organization for Standardization, based on summarizing global sustainable development, narrowing the wealth gap, achieving fair competition, and promoting economic prosperity. It mainly includes elements such as metrology, standards, inspection and testing, certification, and accreditation. Whether it is manned spaceflight, deep-sea exploration, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, or even housekeeping services, medical care for the elderly, online shopping, and other aspects of social production and life, they all rely on the support and guarantee role of quality infrastructure.

In the past decade of the new era, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have successively introduced a series of policies and measures to strengthen the construction of quality infrastructure and promote the reform and development of quality infrastructure, further strengthening quality infrastructure. This time, the "Outline" makes special deployments for quality infrastructure construction from three aspects and sets up the "Quality Infrastructure Upgrade and Efficiency Enhancement Project" in the form of a special column. Specifically:

First, from the hardware aspect, strengthen the capacity building of quality infrastructure. Reasonably layout national, regional, and industrial quality technology service institutions, implement quality infrastructure capacity enhancement actions, improve the brand cultivation, development, and protection mechanisms of the inspection, testing, and certification industry, gradually increase intangible asset investment such as metrology verification and calibration, standard formulation and implementation, encourage all sectors of society to participate together, and build a systematic, complete, structurally optimized, efficient, and practical quality infrastructure.

Second, from the software aspect, optimize the management of quality infrastructure. Promote hierarchical and classified management of quality infrastructure, strengthen the construction of the national modern advanced measurement system, optimize the dual structure of government-issued standards and market self-developed standards, deepen the market-oriented reform of inspection and testing institutions, strengthen the reform of the qualification approval system for testing and certification institutions, carry out comprehensive evaluation of quality infrastructure operation monitoring, and establish an efficient and authoritative national quality infrastructure management system.

Third, from the application perspective, improve the efficiency of quality infrastructure services. Implement quality infrastructure support actions, vigorously carry out technical services such as metrology, standardization, and conformity assessment, and promote the open sharing of resources such as data, instruments, and equipment. Build a collaborative service network and create integrated service bases for quality infrastructure to provide "one-stop" services for industrial clusters and industrial chain quality upgrades. Strengthen the domestic and international connection of quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation, and promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade.

At the same time, the special column section of the "Outline" also makes deployment arrangements for upgrading the capabilities of quality technology institutions, building national quality standard laboratories, and improving public services for technical trade measures.

That's all I have to answer, thank you.

Hong Kong China Review News Agency Reporter:

Quality safety is closely related to enterprise production and operation as well as people's daily life. May I ask what considerations and designs the "Outline" has regarding ensuring quality safety? Thank you.

Director Duan Yongsheng of the Product Quality Safety Supervision Department, State Administration for Market Regulation:

Quality safety concerns the safety of people's lives, property, and public safety. The "Outline" clearly proposes implementing a quality safety supervision embankment project, focusing on promoting the modernization of quality governance, mainly working on the following three aspects:

First, strengthen the construction of quality rule of law. Accelerate the revision of the "Product Quality Law," improve regulations in areas such as product safety, product liability, and quality infrastructure. Strictly crack down on the manufacture and sale of counterfeit and inferior goods, intellectual property infringement, and other behaviors according to law, and promote the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. Support the development of quality public interest and collective litigation, and effectively implement the punitive compensation system for product quality.

Second, improve quality policy systems. Establish quality policy evaluation and national quality award systems. Implement product and service quality grading, guide high quality and high price, and promote precise supervision. Improve government procurement policies, bidding systems, and financing credit enhancement systems based on quality factors. Establish a quality disclosure system combining mandatory and voluntary elements, encourage enterprises to publicly commit to quality and self-declare standards. Improve professional quality talent training and title systems, focusing on cultivating quality research talents, skilled talents, and management talents.

Third, enhance the effectiveness of quality supervision. Further deepen the reform of industrial product production licenses and compulsory certification systems, strengthen full-chain supervision before, during, and after production. Further clarify quality safety requirements for consumer groups such as the elderly, students, children, and disabled persons, formulate a consumer product quality safety supervision catalog, and strictly supervise quality safety. Strengthen quality supervision and defect product recall management for key building materials such as cement, wires, and cables. Promote integrated online and offline quality supervision of goods sold on online platforms. Build a traceability system for key product quality safety, forming a traceability chain where sources can be checked, destinations can be traced, and responsibilities can be pursued.

We will earnestly implement the quality governance requirements of the "Outline," continuously improve the level of quality safety supervision, and consolidate the safety foundation for building a quality-strong country. Thank you!

Beijing News Reporter:

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party proposed forming a new pattern of higher-level and higher-quality regional economic coordinated development. May I ask what plans and deployments the "Outline" has for promoting regional quality development? Thank you.

Huang Guoliang:

Thank you for your question. Implementing the regional coordinated development strategy is one of the major national strategies in the new era. The "Outline" proposes promoting the integration of regional development quality with productivity layout, location advantages, environmental carrying capacity, and actual social development needs. It encourages the eastern region to play a leading role in quality transformation and innovation, promoting the cultivation of advanced manufacturing clusters that are high-end, intelligent, and green through quality transformation and innovation, and pushing the productive service industry toward specialization and high-end value chains; guiding the central and western regions to develop characteristic industries according to local conditions, promoting the quality upgrade of pillar industries within the region, and cultivating comparative advantages in quality development; meanwhile, promoting the northeast region to optimize the quality development environment, accelerate the conversion of new and old kinetic energy, promote technological iteration and quality upgrades of traditional advantageous industries, and cultivate emerging industries.

The "Outline" deploys the implementation of the "Regional Quality Development Demonstration Project" in the form of a special column, which will promote the deep development of quality-strong provinces, quality-strong cities, and quality-strong industries. Next, the State Administration for Market Regulation will work with relevant departments to focus on major regional strategies and create new advantages in regional quality development.

First, build a national quality innovation pilot zone. Rely on regional central cities and city clusters to carry out quality collaborative development pilots, explore the construction of a new quality governance system and modern quality policy system. Plan and build national quality standard laboratories, adapt and support the improvement of the modern industrial system with modern quality infrastructure construction. Promote quality transformation and innovation, facilitate the integration of modern service industry with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture, achieve balanced urban and rural quality development, explore characteristic quality-benefit development paths, and build regional quality development highlands.

Second, create benchmark cities for a quality-strong country. Guide various cities to formulate and implement urban quality development strategies, introduce comprehensive quality management systems and methods, use digital technology and standard methods to promote innovation in urban management concepts, methods, and models, thereby promoting the integration and mutual progress of urban construction and quality development, and create benchmark cities for a quality-strong country with refined, high-quality, and intelligent development.

Third, establish demonstration zones for quality brand enhancement. Promote qualified industrial parks and industrial clusters to creatively carry out quality brand enhancement actions, build integrated bases of quality infrastructure serving industrial clusters, and optimize the efficiency of quality infrastructure service systems. Formulate and implement advanced quality standards, promote the cultivation of quality technology and management talents. Strengthen innovation and creative design of products and services, original new technology research and application, and promotion of innovative patent applications. Improve brand operation and management, form a number of regional brands with strong quality leadership and high product reputation. At the same time, leverage the agglomeration effect of demonstration zones to cultivate and form a number of high-level quality excellence industrial clusters.

Here I also report to everyone that in September this year, the State Administration for Market Regulation, together with relevant ministries and commissions and the Sichuan Provincial Government and Chengdu Municipal Government, will hold the 5th China Quality (Chengdu) Conference in Chengdu, Sichuan. This conference is a high-level global platform for exchanging modern quality management concepts and promoting international quality cooperation. Through exchanging and learning from quality transformation and innovation achievements, it serves the new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation. Everyone is welcome to pay attention and participate.

That is all I will answer, thank you!

China Hong Kong Network Reporter:

We noticed that the "Outline for Building a Quality-Strong Country" has made deployments from a macroeconomic perspective to promote economic quality and efficiency development. May I ask what specific considerations are planned next? Thank you.

Gong Zhenzhi:

Thank you. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party pointed out that "high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a socialist modern country." The Party Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Outline for Building a Quality-Strong Country," elaborating in a special section on "promoting economic quality and efficiency development." The National Development and Reform Commission will resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to promoting high-quality development as the theme, organically combine the implementation of the strategy to expand domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, accelerate the construction of a modern economic system, and promote the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth. The main aspects are as follows:

First, focus on building a high-level socialist market economic system. We will adhere to the "two unwavering principles," actively create a good policy and institutional environment, and effectively enable state-owned enterprises to dare to act, private enterprises to dare to venture, and foreign enterprises to dare to invest. At the same time, we will build a high-standard market system, deepen factor market reforms, and accelerate the construction of a nationwide unified market that is efficient, standardized, fair in competition, and fully open. Additionally, we will improve the macroeconomic governance mechanism, regulate and guide capital to develop healthily according to law.

Second, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. We will work with relevant departments to enhance the resilience and security of industrial and supply chains, deeply implement major technological equipment research projects, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing. At the same time, we will further optimize the layout of major productive forces such as petrochemicals and new energy vehicles, continuously consolidate the results of steel capacity reduction and output cutbacks, promote the optimization and upgrading of industries like light industry and textiles, and consolidate the leading position of advantageous industries. Accelerate the development of the digital economy and build internationally competitive digital industry clusters. In addition, we will speed up the construction of a high-quality and efficient new service industry system, promoting the deep integration of modern services with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture.

Third, focus on promoting coordinated urban-rural and regional development. Fully advance rural revitalization and promote a people-centered new type of urbanization. Deeply implement regional coordinated development strategies, major regional strategies, and main functional area strategies to build a regional economic layout and territorial spatial system characterized by complementary advantages and high-quality development. At the same time, support the accelerated development of revolutionary old areas and ethnic regions, and strengthen the construction of border areas.

Fourth, focus on promoting high-level opening-up to the outside world. We will continue to deepen factor flow-oriented openness, steadily expand institutional openness in rules, regulations, management, and standards. Innovate the development mechanism of service trade, actively develop digital trade, and effectively implement stable foreign trade policies. Meanwhile, create a high-level environment for utilizing foreign investment, promote the high-quality development of jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative, and build an open economic system that is mutually beneficial, diversified, balanced, safe, and efficient.

Fifth, focus on promoting green and low-carbon development. We will actively and steadily advance carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, implement the ten major actions for carbon peaking in a planned and stepwise manner, improve the control of total energy consumption and intensity, and deeply promote clean, low-carbon, and efficient energy use. Vigorously promote energy saving and carbon reduction in key industries, resolutely curb the blind development of high energy-consuming, high-emission, and low-level projects, implement a comprehensive conservation strategy, and advocate green consumption.

In summary, we will enhance the innovative momentum of quality development, establish a green orientation for quality development, strengthen the benefits of quality development for the people, continuously optimize the economic structure, focus on improving innovation capabilities, and continuously enhance new driving forces and new quality advantages for economic development. Thank you!

Hong Kong Bauhinia Magazine Reporter:

Enterprises are the main force in quality innovation and development. In building a quality-strong country, how can enterprises better play their main role? Thank you.

Duan Yongsheng:

Enterprises are the main force in building a quality-strong country. The "Outline" proposes a series of measures to guide enterprises to play their main role well and enhance their quality and brand development capabilities. Whether state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, or foreign-funded enterprises, they must find the right market positioning and play their main role. Enterprises should promote quality innovation development from the following four aspects:

First, enterprises should focus on improving quality management levels. Encourage enterprises to formulate and implement production and operation strategies that win by quality, innovate quality management concepts, methods, and tools, establish and apply a new quality management system covering all employees, all elements, the entire process, and all data, and accelerate the leap in quality management maturity. Especially, they should adapt to the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation trends, accelerate the construction of digital and intelligent quality control models, and achieve digital upgrades in quality management.

Second, enterprises should focus on implementing quality technology innovation. All types of enterprises should strengthen their position as innovation leaders, increase investment, promote the application of new technologies, new processes, and new materials, facilitate product development and quality upgrades, and strengthen innovation and research on major technological equipment such as first sets. Leading enterprises in the industry should take the initiative to lead the formation of quality technology innovation consortia and collaboratively tackle common quality technology challenges in the industrial and supply chains. Small and medium-sized enterprises should vigorously implement technological transformation, quality improvement, and brand building to enhance their quality technology innovation capabilities.

Third, enterprises should focus on strengthening quality culture construction. Broad enterprises should improve the chief quality officer system, value the construction of quality managers, quality engineers, and quality technical experts, strengthen quality education and training for all employees, and promote a strong awareness of quality first. They should widely participate in national "Quality Month" and other mass quality activities, promote quality culture exchange and mutual learning among enterprises, and stimulate enthusiasm for quality innovation among all employees. They should vigorously implement enterprise quality brand strategies, integrate product design, cultural creativity, technological innovation, and brand building, enhance the soft power of brand building, and strive to cultivate Chinese high-quality products.

Fourth, the whole society should create a good environment for enterprise quality development. The government should maintain a fair and competitive market environment and protect and stimulate the vitality of enterprise quality development. Improve the quality reward system, establish quality benchmarks, and encourage enterprises to strive for quality excellence. Industry associations, chambers of commerce, academic societies, and consumer organizations should play a bridging role, strengthen technical service support for enterprise standard setting, brand building, and quality management, and promote industry quality integrity and self-discipline. Especially, friends in the news media should play a role in publicity and guidance, spread advanced quality concepts, promote entrepreneurial spirit and craftsmanship spirit, and create a social atmosphere that values, pursues, esteems, and cares about quality.

That's all I have to answer, thank you.

China Daily Reporter:

China has successively issued the "Quality Revitalization Outline (1996-2010)" and the "Quality Development Outline (2011-2020)". Compared with these, what are the inheritances and innovations of the "Quality-Strong Country Construction Outline"? Thank you.

Tian Shihong:

Thank you for your question. Since the 1990s, China has successively formulated and implemented two planning documents: the Quality Revitalization Outline and the Quality Development Outline, continuously promoting quality improvement and coordinated economic and social development, exploring a quality development path with Chinese characteristics. The subsequent release of the "Quality-Strong Country Construction Outline" further highlights the fundamental and strategic position and role of quality in the overall economic and social development, and also highlights the mission and responsibility of building a quality-strong country in comprehensively building a socialist modern country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. From quality revitalization to quality development and then to a quality-strong country, it marks that China's quality work has entered a new era and opened a new chapter. Compared with the previous two planning documents, the "Quality-Strong Country Construction Outline" maintains continuity while also having new features and highlights. Specifically:

First, it emphasizes adhering to the Party's leadership. The "Outline" adheres to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, insists on the Party's comprehensive leadership over quality work, implements the Party's leadership in all fields, aspects, and links of quality work, improves the central quality inspection system, includes quality-strong country construction in the important agendas of Party committees and governments at all levels, incorporates it into national economic and social development plans, and includes quality work assessment in the performance evaluation of Party and government leadership teams and leaders at all levels, thus ensuring that the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments on building a quality-strong country can be implemented.

Second, it emphasizes a people-centered approach. The "Outline" insists on meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, focuses on people's well-being and shortcomings, emphasizes strict quality and safety guarantees, increases the supply of high-quality products and services, meets diversified and multi-level consumption demands, and enhances the people's sense of quality gain and satisfaction.

Third, it emphasizes implementing the new development philosophy. The "Outline" focuses on high-quality development, innovatively proposes guiding indicators such as significantly expanding the scale of quality-competitive industries and building a number of quality-excellent industrial clusters, while also strengthening binding indicators related to product, project, and service quality. It proposes enhancing quality innovation momentum, establishing a green orientation for quality development, promoting the resolution of unbalanced and inadequate quality development issues, and achieving shared quality development results for all people. It requires further deepening international quality cooperation, promoting interconnection of quality infrastructure, and truly advocating innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing.

Fourth is the principle of emphasizing systematic advancement. The "Outline" expands the adjustment areas from micro-level product, engineering, and service quality to macro-level economic, industrial, and regional quality, making special arrangements for promoting economic quality and efficiency development and enhancing industrial and regional quality competitiveness for the first time. The "Outline" coordinates development and safety, focusing not only on improving the level of industrial modernization and raising the quality baseline but also on key areas' risk hazards to ensure the quality and safety bottom line, better achieving systematic advancement and interactive improvement. The "Outline" also specifically proposes strengthening comprehensive quality management and promoting the construction and application of a new quality management system covering all personnel, all elements, the entire process, and all data.

Fifth is the emphasis on quality transformation and innovation. The "Outline" clearly proposes improving quality policies and promoting quality transformation and innovation. Specifically, regarding quality incentives, it proposes establishing a green product consumption promotion system, increasing financial support for enterprise quality innovation, improving the national quality award system, perfecting the multi-channel quality relief mechanism, and implementing a quality reliability improvement plan, among a series of incentive measures. Regarding constraint mechanisms, it proposes improving the product recall system, reforming the product quality supervision and sampling inspection system, improving the product injury monitoring system, establishing a quality safety traceability system, conducting quality safety risk assessments, and improving the supervision system for major engineering equipment, among a series of restrictive measures. Regarding quality foundations, it requires establishing an efficient and authoritative national quality infrastructure management system, promoting the coordinated development of metrology, standards, inspection and testing, and certification and accreditation, while encouraging enterprises to strengthen the construction of quality technology innovation centers, enhance the quality technology innovation capabilities of small and micro enterprises, strengthen the construction of quality-related disciplines, and expand quality education and training for all personnel and the cultivation of professional skilled talents. The "Outline" also encourages associations, societies, chambers of commerce, and a wide range of enterprises to widely carry out mass quality activities such as quality improvement and quality innovation. These are some positive transformation and innovation measures to further improve the national quality policy system.

That's all I have to answer, thank you.

Xing Huina:

If there are no more questions, today's press conference will end here. Thanks to Director Tian and the several presenters, and thanks to all media friends. Goodbye everyone.

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