Industry leaders emerge in standardization push

Specialized center plays a key role for local clients integrating into global economy

A non-profit platform for scientific research, applications and services of qualified standards, the Qingdao Institute of Standardization is the only professional organization of its kind in the city, offering domestic and international standards, technological and legal support and inspection and consulting services to its clients.

The institute is mainly responsible for the management and application of organization codes in Qingdao as well as the research and publication of standardization. It also provides standard information services for the construction of museums in the city. Playing a key role in serving social and economic transformation of Qingdao, the institute covers the technological services in the whole process of standardization from information query and downloads, training, systematic planning, research and application to marketing and evaluation of the results. By the end of 2016, it had restored more than 1.52 million bibliographic data lists and 380,000 standardization texts. To date, the institute has established ties with 163 global organizations such as ASTM International in the United States, the International Electrotechnical Commission, the International Organization for Standardization and the International Telecommunications Union.

Last year, the institute provided information query and consulting services for more than 400 enterprises in Qingdao. It held public training on the construction of enterprises' standardized systems and document integrations to cultivate thousands of professionals in the sector. This year, the institute will launch 10 sessions of training on standardized positions and skills and make a "Qingdao standard" in areas such as taxes and transformations of scientific achievements, to further promote economic and social development.