China is to participate in the drafting of international quality standards so it can better cope with overseas technical trade measures that have cost Chinese companies billions, Vice-Premier Wang Qishan said on Tuesday.
More international communication and cooperation is needed in this sector to protect the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, he said, while addressing a forum on quality development in Beijing.
Chinese exporters suffered a direct loss of more than $62 billion last year due to overseas technical trade measures, from products that were detained, destroyed, or returned, Zhi Shuping, head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the country's top quality watchdog, told the forum.
He said China had experienced rapid economic growth since enacting its policy of reform and opening up and Chinese products now sell across the world. However, he added, "The quality of made-in-China products lags behind the country's economic development."
He said that China also has poor levels of quality control and called for a crackdown on fake and substandard products in many sectors including food, drugs, agriculture and construction materials.
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