Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Digital Development of Quality Certification

In order to further promote the digital transformation of the quality certification industry, leverage the role of quality certification in promoting the digital transformation of key industries and areas, and supporting the digital industry, and strengthen the application of certification digital resources, the following guidance is proposed to accelerate the digital development of quality certification.

1、 Overall requirements

By 2030, we will gradually improve the top-level system design for digital construction of quality certification under the new business model, establish sound digital evaluation rules and technical specifications, explore the application of machine-readable standards in certification, select 10 excellent digital certification institutions and 50 digital certification projects, and form excellent cases of digital transformation in key industries and areas empowered by certification. By 2035, we will comprehensively establish a clear and innovative quality certification digital technology system and implementation system, accelerate the construction of high-level new quality infrastructure through collaborative measurement quantization and standard digitization, connect with high standard economic and trade rules to build a number of internationally influential digital certification systems, and fully adapt to the development needs of various industries and fields.

2、 Promote the digital development of certification bodies and quality certification activities

（1） Establish a digital concept for quality certification and enhance digital capabilities. Strengthen the digital awareness of the certification industry, establish digital thinking such as data-driven and innovative applications. Establish a professional certification digital expert team to gradually enhance the digital capabilities of certification agencies and personnel. Strengthen the digital promotion of quality certification, create an atmosphere of digital transformation and development in the industry, and implant digital genes into the entire certification lifecycle. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（2） Consolidate the digital foundation of quality certification and comprehensively achieve informatization. Strengthen the construction of digital infrastructure, create conditions for the digital and intelligent development of quality certification, and lay a solid foundation for the digital management of the entire lifecycle of certification activities. Establish a comprehensive, three-dimensional, and visualized certification process digital and intelligent business platform, develop unified processes and standard operating procedures, improve the consistency, reproducibility, and effectiveness of certification results, and achieve traceability and auditability throughout the entire process. Improve the structural level of certification business data, standardize certification business data interfaces, achieve upstream and downstream data interconnection, mutual trust and recognition, and reduce the cost of enterprise quality certification. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（3） Empower key aspects of quality certification with digital technology and expand the digital scene of quality certification. Encourage certification bodies to focus on digital key technologies, promote the integration of quality certification and innovative applications of digital technology, and achieve real-time online collection, analysis, and solidification of key evidence for certification business such as process parameters, process data, and product consistency elements. Explore new models of digital authentication assisted by artificial intelligence, improve the quality and efficiency of key processes such as certification commission acceptance, on-site audit, and evaluation review, and reduce certification risks. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（4） Intensify data mining efforts and carry out comprehensive quality diagnosis. Support certification agencies to integrate data models and mechanism models to construct quality root cause analysis models, quality anomaly warning models, and quality spatiotemporal pattern analysis models. By utilizing the digital information generated during the certification process, we innovate and develop data products and tools for risk prevention, quality evaluation, and quality improvement, providing certified organizations with deeper level services such as quality diagnosis, quality physical examination, and quality enhancement. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective duties)

3、 Assist in the digital transformation of key industries and areas

（5） Serve the high-quality development of new industrialization. Establish and implement a quality certification system, evaluation rules, and technical specifications that meet the needs of high-quality development for various aspects of the new industry. Carry out intelligent manufacturing capability certification and industrial operating system certification, promote enterprise digital transformation and intelligent upgrading, and improve total factor productivity and product added value. Establish and improve the product carbon labeling certification system, accelerate the application of green and low-carbon technologies, processes, and equipment, and promote intelligent and green transformation. Strengthen the software capability building and quality management required for digital manufacturing, pilot software engineering full process certification and new industrialization data certification, and achieve a higher level of integration between industrialization and informatization. (The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective roles and responsibilities.)

（6） Promote smart agriculture and water conservancy construction. Promote the maturity certification of smart agriculture management, facilitate the intelligent transformation of agricultural production and agricultural product processing. Explore and carry out digital scene certification for smart farms, smart ranches, and smart fishing grounds to enhance the basic capabilities of digital development in agricultural production. Promote certification in the field of grain production, support the revitalization of the seed industry and food security. Implement green certification for water-saving products and certification for water-saving management systems, and promote digital empowerment for high-quality development of water conservancy. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Data Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

（7） Promote effective transformation of the service industry. Focusing on productive and lifestyle service industries, we will focus on building a systematic service certification support system that covers digital technology innovation, data element empowerment, and strategic emerging industry ecosystem construction. Enrich the certification of digital public services, promote the construction of education, healthcare, elderly care, smart cities, and digital communities, and facilitate the high-quality development of the service industry through digitization. Utilizing big data and artificial intelligence to achieve continuous innovation in product design, service experience, and management decision-making. Deepen the certification of financial technology products, explore the implementation of financial service certification, and promote the improvement of financial service security protection level. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Health Commission, the People's Bank of China, and the National Data Bureau are responsible for their respective duties.)

4、 Intensify support for quality certification in the digital industry

（8） Focus on digital key equipment and product quality certification services. Strengthen the research on certification technology in key areas of digitalization, develop certification systems required for industrial development such as smart agricultural technology equipment, industrial robots, intelligent computing devices, industrial operating systems, data acquisition sensors, industrial gateways, and intelligent detection equipment, and select a batch of high-quality digital products. Focusing on cultivating a segmented consumer goods market, we will promote the certification of connected vehicles, smart home appliances, new generation information technology, service robots, and elderly care equipment, enrich the supply of high-quality products, and focus on meeting multi-level and diversified consumer needs. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective duties.)

（9） Improve the quality certification system for digital infrastructure. Efforts will be made to improve the certification system for products, services, and management systems related to the field of digital infrastructure, enhance the level of certification supply in areas such as operating systems, cloud computing, data centers, the Internet of Things, digital platforms, and Beidou satellite navigation, and research the establishment of data infrastructure certification in areas such as data circulation and utilization. Carry out digital transformation service capability certification to provide enterprises with services such as technology transformation evaluation, scenario cultivation, and technology verification. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective duties.)

（10） Strengthen network and data security protection. Promote the certification of key network equipment and specialized network security products, as well as the certification of network security services, to build a strong network security protection barrier. Promote certification of information security management systems and other measures to enhance corporate credit and market competitiveness. Actively carry out data security management and personal information protection certification, explore the implementation of personal information protection compliance audits, data security risk assessments and other service certifications, and deepen data security governance. Innovate evaluation technology, promote the construction of commercial password authentication system, explore trusted digital authentication such as zero trust, blockchain, and privacy computing. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Data Administration, and the National Cryptography Administration are responsible for their respective duties.)

5、 Strengthen quality certification, intelligent supervision, and certification of digital resource applications

（11） Promote the construction of a big data system for quality certification supervision. Fully utilize digital technology to form a unified quality certification and supervision big data center, promote the collection, sharing, and effective utilization of regulatory data, certification agencies, and certified enterprise data, gather relevant certification and supervision full business data, achieve data interconnection and intercommunication in the field of quality certification, and ensure full chain and full field supervision before, during, and after the event. Promote the supervision and management of quality certification and the standardization, normalization, and facilitation of government services, and achieve the goal of "one standard throughout the country" for intelligent supervision of quality certification. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（12） Create a new model of intelligent supervision for quality certification. Taking quality certification supervision big data as the driving force, promote the comprehensive integration of digital concepts and technologies into various types of quality certification supervision businesses, use multi-source data as accurate "portraits" of business entities, and strengthen risk assessment, prediction and early warning. Explore the creation of a new intelligent certification and supervision application model with comprehensive situational awareness, intelligent trend analysis, and resource coordination functions. Strengthen the application of digital technology in the process of evidence collection and certification, and achieve full process, traceable, and penetrating supervision of certification activities. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（13） Strengthen the application of digital resources for quality certification. Establish and improve a nationwide unified digital management and intelligent supervision platform for quality certification, achieve data sharing and mutual supervision among market supervision departments at all levels, and gradually improve the cross administrative network supervision cooperation mechanism. Explore and carry out quality prediction and traceability of certified products based on big data, promote the transformation of quality certification supervision from one-way management to two-way interaction, and from offline to online and offline integration. Encourage business entities to actively participate in the development and utilization of data resources, empowering public governance and industrial development. (The State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective roles and responsibilities.)

6、 Building a good ecosystem for digital development of quality certification

（14） Strengthen policy support. Implement current preferential reward policies, make good use of existing funding channels, and coordinate support for quality certification digital basic research, technological innovation, international cooperation, and application development. Develop a new model of inclusive and prudent supervision based on the characteristics of digital authentication activities, and encourage and support regions with conditions to pilot it first. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China, the State Administration for Financial Regulation, and the National Data Administration are responsible for their respective duties.)

（15） Strengthen standard guidance. Accelerate standard research and transformation in digital certification schemes, implementation processes, archive retention, practitioners, audit findings, data formats, etc., continuously improve existing national standards, industry standards, and group standards, promote the unification of basic norms and rules for quality certification, and gradually improve the digital standard system for quality certification. (Responsible by the State Administration for Market Regulation)

（16） Strengthen international mutual recognition. Strengthen the coordination with relevant international organizations' working mechanisms, support the construction of domestic technical organizations in corresponding fields, encourage and guide certification institutions to explore quality certification digital international mutual recognition cooperation projects in combination with the country's opening-up strategy and their own advantageous fields. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, and the National Cryptography Administration are responsible for their respective duties.)

（17） Strengthen publicity and promotion. Deeply carry out policy interpretation and publicity, innovate propaganda forms, enrich propaganda carriers, disseminate advanced digital concepts, organize typical case selection, on-site exchanges and other activities, select a batch of excellent cases, institutions and personnel, form demonstration and driving effects, and create a good atmosphere for the digital development of quality certification. (Led by the State Administration for Market Regulation, each relevant department is responsible according to their respective duties)

Central Cyberspace Administration of the State Administration for Market Regulation

National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security

Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Ministry of Commerce, National Health Commission

National Data Bureau of the People's Bank of China

National Cryptography Administration

July 25, 2025

Source: National Certification and Accreditation Administration

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