Not long ago, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the Standardization Administration of China inaugurated a standardization role model for high tech industry at Xi?痑n ??s High Tech Town. The development marks the birth of China?痵 first standardization demonstration project for high tech park development.
A few years ago, the Xi?痑n high tech town established a steering panel to work on standardization matters. The panel produced 19 industrial policies to support standardization activities in the field, and created five platforms for standard catalogues and fast search for information in text format. Up to date, 41% of the businesses in the town have developed their own standard systems, with 404 types of products being produced in line with international standards or latest overseas standards. Statistics show that the high tech town has produced 50 international, national and industry standards since it was established. A dozen of businesses in the town are currently working on 45 new standards. In addition, numerous enterprises have established technically advanced research centers or labs equipped with world-class instruments and facilities. On October 2003, the high tech town was selected as a role model for high tech standards. The town has developed a range of advanced proprietary high-tech standards, internationally or domestically, which constitutes the core competitiveness of the town. The TD-SCDMA standard, for example, prepared with the involvement of Datang Telecom (Xi?痑n) and others, has been adopted by ITU and 3GPP, and become a third mainstream standard, following the ones developed by the US and Europe. |
