In 2025, my country’s State Administration for Market Regulation will actively promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, and a series of relevant measures will achieve remarkable results, benefiting products worth up to 12.5 billion yuan from exports to domestic sales.
The State Administration for Market Regulation continues to explore innovations in the connection mechanism between domestic and international quality certification systems.
Guide certification agencies to carry out targeted assistance for foreign trade companies, and on the premise of ensuring the bottom line of safety, let quality certification effectively play a role in facilitating foreign trade companies to expand domestic sales.
In terms of certification procedures, cost reduction and efficiency improvement have been achieved.
The State Administration for Market Regulation has established a special working mechanism to guide compulsory product certification (CCC certification) implementation agencies to further optimize certification procedures.
Taking China Automotive Certification Center Co., Ltd. as an example, it has reduced CCC certification fees for foreign trade companies by more than 1 million yuan, greatly reducing the company’s certification costs and shortening the certification cycle.
Important progress has also been made in the connection of internal and external evaluations, and value-added breakthroughs have been achieved.
The State Administration for Market Regulation requires CCC certification implementation agencies with relevant international certification qualifications to integrate domestic and foreign certification evaluation programs and build a one-stop service system.
For example, China Innovation Ocean (Tianjin) Certification Service Co., Ltd. has established a “CCC Certification +” linkage mechanism. One testing and certification evaluation can allow companies to simultaneously obtain multiple domestic and foreign access qualifications such as CCC certification certificates, explosion-proof certificates, and IECEx (International Electrotechnical Commission Explosion-proof Electrical Products Certification System) certificates.
The State Administration for Market Regulation also actively guides local market supervision departments to provide assistance.
Issuing a notice on measures to provide assistance to foreign trade enterprises and setting forth clear requirements for local market supervision departments and designated implementation agencies for compulsory product certification.
Local market supervision departments take the initiative to collect requests from foreign trade companies for domestic sales, coordinate and guide certification agencies to optimize the CCC certification process, strengthen publicity and establish direct channels for assistance policy information, and cooperate with local governments to create a “combination punch” to ensure that policies to benefit enterprises are implemented.
In order to promote the effectiveness of quality certification services, the State Administration for Market Regulation requires local market supervision departments to guide the designated implementation agencies of compulsory product certification to open green fast access channels for enterprises.
For example, the Ningbo Market Supervision Bureau of Zhejiang Province has innovatively implemented the “certificate first and then supervises” model after passing the test to help companies quickly obtain certificates and reduce certification costs.
The period for obtaining the CCC certification for the products of the first batch of CCC green channel certified companies has been shortened by 65%, and the cost of obtaining the certification has been reduced by about 10%.
In terms of carrying out special training, the State Administration for Market Regulation guides local market supervision departments to provide assistance to export-oriented foreign trade enterprises in terms of technical guidance, cost control, market access, etc.
The Hubei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau collaborated across departments, and jointly organized commerce, customs and other departments to hold domestic and foreign trade standard certification convergence training sessions. Experts were invited to introduce the “same line, same standard, same quality” policy, and through docking and assistance to nearly 200 companies, the “dual cycle” development blockage was opened.
Broadening publicity channels is also an important part.
The State Administration for Market Regulation reminds local market supervision departments to cooperate with local governments in using various media platforms to strengthen policy publicity and interpretation.
Focusing on the pain points of information asymmetry, the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Market Regulation has built an integrated domestic and foreign trade development platform for testing and certification services. It has organized and released more than 1,000 pieces of domestic and overseas quality standards and testing and certification dynamic information, providing systematic guidance for foreign trade companies to understand domestic and foreign market access requirements in real time.
In addition, the State Administration for Market Regulation organizes local market supervision departments to provide targeted assistance.
Jiangsu Kunshan Yixin Motor Technology Co., Ltd., as an export-oriented home appliance manufacturing enterprise, is faced with the dilemma of switching from exports to domestic sales due to the current international trade situation.
Relying on the local special class to stabilize foreign trade, the Kunshan Municipal Market Supervision Bureau launched the “three-specialized service” of special class docking, exclusive channels, and special tracking. It guided certification agencies to provide customized solutions for enterprises and set up dedicated personnel to track and promote. It only took 14 days to complete the full-process service of CCC certification, which was 80% shorter than the conventional certification cycle, forming a typical demonstration of “speeding up certification access.”
