Source: China Economic Net Exhibition.
Economic Daily and China Economic Net, Xiamen, November 25. The second annual meeting of the National Technical Committee for Exhibition Standardization and the 2018 Exhibition Industry Standardization Annual Meeting, themed New Era, New Opportunities and New Actions, were held in Xiamen on November 25. The meeting reviewed and approved a number of proposed national standard projects, including Guidelines for Green Exhibition Operations, Basic Requirements for Exhibition Display Engineering Design Services, and Guidelines for Conference Management.
Leaders from the Standards Technical Management Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, and the Xiamen Convention and Exhibition Affairs Bureau attended the meeting.
The meeting summarized the committee's work progress in standard formulation and revision, standardization promotion and international standardization. It discussed and arranged key ideas and implementation paths for exhibition standardization in 2019, providing a basis for the layout of the national standards system for the exhibition industry and laying a foundation for standards to support high-quality development of the industry. The meeting reviewed and approved proposed national standard projects including Guidelines for Green Exhibition Operations, Basic Requirements for Exhibition Display Engineering Design Services, and Guidelines for Conference Management, which will soon be submitted to the State Administration for Market Regulation for project approval.
The meeting focused on new opportunities facing China's exhibition industry, exchanged and shared cases, experiences and results in exhibition standardization, and explored new ideas for standardization work in the industry.
Leaders from the Standards Technical Management Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation gave an authoritative interpretation of China's standardization rule-of-law development and macro management, covering key revisions to the new Standardization Law, the dynamics of China's standardization reform and optimization of the standardization management system.
The 2018 Exhibition Industry Standardization Annual Meeting was held in Xiamen on November 25. Photo by Yuan Zi, China Economic Net.
Chen Xianjin, honorary president of UFI and chair of the National Technical Committee for Exhibition Standardization, delivered a report titled Building a New-Era Exhibition Industry Standardization Complex, based on many years of practice in China's exhibition standardization and the needs of industry reform and development.
Experts from the Circulation Industry Promotion Center of the Ministry of Commerce, UFI, the China Foreign Trade Centre, Shanghai New International Expo Center and other organizations delivered keynote speeches, sharing practices in formulating, implementing and applying national standards, industry standards, enterprise standards and association standards for the exhibition industry. They offered actionable ideas and suggestions for advancing exhibition standardization under the new era and new situation, and provided theoretical and practical support for using standards to improve quality and efficiency in the exhibition industry.
The annual meeting was hosted by the National Technical Committee for Exhibition Standardization and organized by the Xiamen Convention and Exhibition Affairs Bureau. It provided a high-level platform for academic exchange on exhibition standardization at home and abroad, strengthened consensus among all parties on cooperation to advance exhibition standardization, and is of great significance for gradually building a multi-party, coordinated, complementary and mutually beneficial exhibition standardization work mechanism. Nearly 80 participants attended, including leaders from national standardization authorities, leaders from some municipal exhibition industry authorities, well-known domestic exhibition enterprises, and senior experts and scholars in standardization.
