To ensure a smooth market, standards must come first
The State Administration for Market Regulation recently released a batch of national standards in the field of market circulation, laying a solid institutional foundation for building a unified national market and providing a common language for cross regional commercial and trade cooperation.
From the consensus on measurement on the ancient Tea Horse Road to the current global ISO standard system, the development history of circulation is essentially the evolution history of standards. In recent years, standards such as logistics and express waybill codes and transportation vehicle specifications have been basically unified nationwide, supporting China's daily processing capacity of over 300 million express deliveries; The usage of barcode registration in the retail industry has reached 210 million, covering 90% of popular consumer goods; Large supermarkets have established mature standard systems for cold chain temperature control, inventory management, and other aspects... These standardized achievements have laid a solid foundation for the large-scale and intensive development of modern circulation in China.
It should also be noted that with the rise of new formats such as digital trade and green logistics, the coverage of standards is extending from physical circulation to data circulation, from hardware specifications to service rules, continuously reshaping the development form of modern circulation. However, under the constraints of imbalanced urban-rural development and insufficient rural development, there are still significant regional and industry differences in the standards and measurement systems in China's market circulation field. At the same time, the influence of Chinese standards in the international standard system is relatively low, and their recognition in overseas market circulation is insufficient, leading to multiple compliance cost risks and challenges for enterprises going global.
To ensure a smooth market, standards must come first. Build a full chain standard system, focusing on key links such as logistics, e-commerce, and cross-border trade, and accelerate the filling of standard gaps in urban-rural integration development and emerging business sectors; Breaking down regional standard barriers, taking the construction of a unified large market as an opportunity, promoting the integration of local standards with national standards, clearing up unreasonable differentiated norms in various regions, and reducing the cost of cross regional circulation of goods; Enhance the discourse power of international standards, deeply participate in the activities of international standardization organizations, and promote the transformation of China's advantageous field standards into international standards. Only by continuously improving the standard system and promoting standard coordination can we make the circulation of blood more smooth and the market body healthier, injecting lasting momentum into the construction of a unified national market and high-quality economic development.
Information source: Economic Daily
