The State Administration for Market Regulation launches activities aimed at improving the quality and standards of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Financial Times App learned that recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Notice on Conducting Activities to Improve the Quality of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" (referred to as the "Notice"), focusing on the quality shortcomings of small and medium-sized enterprises. By promoting the use of advanced quality management tools and methods, the goal is to drive enterprises to reduce costs, improve quality, increase efficiency, and guide them to compete upward and win based on quality. According to the deployment of the "Notice", market supervision departments in various regions will focus on key industrial chains and implement a new model for improving the quality of small and medium-sized enterprises, which involves "government coordination, technical organization guidance, and extensive participation of enterprises in the chain". This will generate a number of quality management solutions tailored to small and medium-sized enterprises, promoting the adoption of scientific quality management concepts, tools, and methods. In particular, there will be active exploration of the deep integration of new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence with quality management, driving small and medium-sized enterprises to expand new scenarios and practices in the digitization and intelligent application of quality management, and accelerating the maturity of quality management.