China is set to increase the screening of unqualified inspection and certification agenciesand encourage more private and foreign capital to enter the industry of accreditation toincrease competition, officials said on Thursday.
Xie Jun, deputy head of the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China, saidin a conference in Beijing that the authority will encourage social capital to set upaccreditation agencies and provide the public service.
The authority will also reduce the restrictions placed on foreign investor to set up qualityinspection and test agencies in China, and will provide them same treatment as domesticinvestors, he said.
China currently has 28,300 officials certified accreditation agencies, among them 140agencies are foreign ventures. However, the foreign ventures take up more than 30 percentof the market. The industry registered a total revenue of close to 14 billion yuan in 2014.
Sun Dawei, vice-minister of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspectionand Quarantine, said there are a number of problems in the country's certification andinspection industry, including poor management, lack of credibility and trust, andunprincipled competition.
"We need to increase the accreditation of the inspection and certification agencies toensure a healthy development of the industry and push forward the transformation ofgovernment function," he said.
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