Xinhua News Agency:

Last year, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council released the national outline of building a quality-powered nation. Could you brief us on the progress and achievements made by the SAMR in implementing the outline and promoting quality development? Thank you.

Liu Sanjiang:

Thank you for your question. Quality is the foundation of development, a benefit to the people and a strategy for strengthening the nation. Building China into a quality-powered nation is a crucial aspect of comprehensively advancing the noble cause of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the national outline of building a quality-powered nation, providing guidelines to take a coordinated approach in this regard. Since the release of the outline, various regions and departments have focused on the development goals, key tasks, and major projects, vigorously implementing them and achieving positive progress and accomplishments. To summarize, there are four main aspects as follows:

First, we've enhanced work mechanisms for product quality. Through restructuring, the State Council established the National Leading Group for Coordinating and Promoting Building China into a Quality-powered Nation, with the number of member departments increasing to 33. We conducted a central quality inspection and assessment for the first time, effectively strengthening the endeavor. Various localities also issued implementation documents tailored to their realities, promoting quality enhancement in provinces, regions and cities. We held comprehensive and multi-channel publicity activities, successfully hosting events such as the China Quality Conference in Chengdu and China's "Quality Month" campaign. The public's overall awareness of product quality has been further improved, and the collaborative effort to transform China into a quality-powered nation has been consistently consolidated. 

Second, we implemented actions to enhance quality. Eighteen departments jointly issued an action plan to further improve the quality of products, projects, and services, accelerating quality improvements and upgrades. The qualification rate of products in the manufacturing industry increased steadily to 93.65%, and the consistency of major consumer goods standards with international standards reached 96%. The satisfaction scores for life services and public services have risen to 78.01 and 79.85, respectively, placing them in the relatively satisfied range and moving more towards the satisfied range.

Third, we have strengthened quality and safety supervision. We have improved quality supervision systems, including risk monitoring, supervision, random inspections, and defect recalls, and addressed quality issues in over 20 key consumer products, such as firefighting products and gas stoves. Special operations like the "Double Punch" and "Iron Fist" campaigns were conducted to severely crack down on quality violations. In 2023, a total of 56,700 cases of quality violations were investigated and handled, resulting in the recall of 6.728 million defective vehicles and 10.42 million defective consumer products.

Fourth, we have solidified the foundation for quality infrastructure. We have issued guidelines and management measures for the construction of national quality standard laboratories, and the selection and construction work for the first batch has been initiated. A total of 192 national measurement benchmarks, 65,000 social public measurement standards, 877 national quality inspection centers, and over 1,400 comprehensive service platforms for quality infrastructure have been established. The total number of various standards has exceeded 3.3 million items, and the number of certified organizations for quality certification has surpassed 1 million, further highlighting the effectiveness of quality infrastructure services in supporting industrial and enterprise development.

Promoting quality development and building China into a quality-powered nation requires the active participation of the entire society, perseverance, and sustained efforts. In this regard, we hope the media will contribute more to quality publicity, creating a strong societal atmosphere that highly values quality and pursues high quality. Let's work together to advance this pursuit. Thank you.