The development of third-party certification bodies in China has experienced a gradual development from a single business to a diversified business stage. As the competition in China's third-party certification market is not fierce, and the customer base is relatively fixed, so these international certification bodies are in the rising stage of the development of the market scale, but with different business focuses.TUV Rheinland entered the Chinese market in 1989, and has set up seven branches or offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian and other places, TUV South Germany entered China in 1993, and TUV North Germany entered China in 1999. TUV South Germany entered China in 1993 and TUV North Germany entered China in 1999. After mergers and acquisitions and market reorganization in 2007, TUV Rheinland and TUV Süd have business in China, and have obvious advantages in medical device certification and automotive certification. INTERTEK (Tianxiang Certification Group) is one of the largest third-party certification and testing organizations in China, and its joint venture company (Shenzhen Tianxiang Quality and Technical Services Co., Ltd.), established in Shenzhen in 1989, was the first foreign-funded testing organization to enter the Chinese market, mainly doing textile testing. With the continuous growth of business, INTERTEK has successively set up more than 30 laboratories and 70 branches in more than 40 cities in China, including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Dalian, etc., with a total of 5,000 people. It consists of 5 major business divisions: Commercial Electrical & Electronics, Consumer Products Services, Government Services, Risk Management, and Petrochemical & Agricultural Services. U.S. U L Safety Testing Laboratory, and China Import and Export Commodity Inspection Corporation *** with the construction of a joint venture certification company - UL Mei Hua Certification Co. Independent laboratories were set up in Suzhou and Beijing. China has become the largest overseas market outside the U.S. U L company, authorized by the U L factory has more than 7,100, accounting for 11.5% of the world's U L authorized factories, and growing at a rate of 20% per year. The laboratory provides safety testing for audiovisual products, lighting, home appliances, information technology equipment, motors, power tools and more.
Swiss SGS has registered 33 branches in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shenzhen since the 1990s. Business scope consumer goods, automotive, minerals, petroleum, agriculture, government and public **** institutional services department services. France BVQI business in mainland China began in 1996, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other 14 cities set up offices and liaison offices, mainly in the system certification.January 15, 2007, North America's most famous product certification body CSA announced the official launch of testing and certification services for sanitary products in mainland China.June 2007, the Netherlands KEMA In June 2007, KEMA's CB laboratory in Wenzhou, China, became the first independent foreign-funded testing laboratory in the field of industrial electrical component testing in China. In addition, Germany's VDE, Japan's JQA, South Africa's SABS and other internationally renowned certification bodies have also accelerated the pace of entry into the Chinese market. (A) environmental issues to promote the development of third-party testing and certification organizations in China Today's environmental issues have become a focus of global concern, the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc. have formulated laws and regulations for the protection of the environment, and the implementation of more stringent laws and regulations, involving the expansion of the scope. For example, in July 2006 ROHS & amp; WEEE Directive has been implemented in Europe, which is "on the use of electronic and electrical equipment to limit the use of hazardous substances in the directive", the purpose is to prohibit the use of environmentally hazardous materials in electronic products. Directive details prohibit the use of heavy metals lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBDE, PBB. WEEE is "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive", will ensure that the product can be properly disposed of after the use of the end of the production of electronic products, so that the supplier to bear the production of waste recycling of electronic products of economic responsibility. This undoubtedly puts forward higher requirements for China's export enterprises, where July 2006 after the entry of electronic products into the European market need to follow the ROHS & amp; WEEE requirements. In China's Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, electronic products export enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises occupy the majority of the products exported to the EU member states urgently need to comply with the directive requirements. In this situation, the third-party testing organizations in China launched a test about ROHS, for China's electronics manufacturing enterprises to provide professional testing and related test report services to help China's products enter the European market smoothly. Third-party testing organizations in China's export enterprises product testing results directly affect the foreign buyer's decision-making, environmental factors will be for the product and the buyer to establish a closer emotional bond between the authoritative third-party certification undoubtedly gives the buyer increased confidence.
(ii) the growth of China's international trade has also promoted the development of third-party certification bodies China's reform and opening up 30 years, a large number of enterprises are not only satisfied with the competition in the domestic market, but also hope that the product can occupy a place in the international market. Especially after China's accession to the WTO, foreign tariff barriers are gradually broken down, which makes China's product exports to obtain more business opportunities. Whether in mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, export trade is increasing, and the prosperity of export trade brings a lot of certification needs and business opportunities. But at the same time, to technical regulations, standards, conformity assessment, certification, etc. for the performance of the "technical barriers" has become more prominent, and has become China's exports the most hidden, the most difficult to deal with the obstacles. To the toy industry, for example, China's annual exports of toys amounted to more than 22 billion pieces, occupying 70% of the market share in Europe and the United States. Yiwu City is the national distribution center of small commodities, in China's foreign exports of toy products in Yiwu toys accounted for a considerable share. According to the Yiwu Toy Industry Association statistics show that the annual sales of toys in Yiwu market more than 4 billion, the proportion of exports accounted for about 70%, of which exports to Europe and the United States accounted for more than 25%. More than 3,000 toys in the Yiwu market business subjects, the local production enterprises for more than 300, the annual output value of more than 1 billion. As a result, the huge testing and certification market space to attract international authoritative certification bodies, France BVQI has entered Yiwu, Yiwu, local foreign export enterprises and units to provide pre-shipment inspection services, there have been four enterprises through the product testing and on-site assessment. It is reported that the British INTERTEK, Switzerland SGS will also be ready to enter the Yiwu certification market, to provide local enterprises with convenient testing and certification services, to help enterprises to establish and improve the internal quality of self-control system, to provide quality licensing, system certification, product certification consulting and training on product safety standards, and actively sample testing and on-site assessment of enterprises.
In the ever-changing international market, companies must adapt to the constant changes in global trade, purchasing, and sales methods, cope with the impact of emerging markets, expand product lines and product categories, shorten time-to-market, reduce costs, and minimize supply chain risks, while at the same time meeting quality and safety requirements throughout the entire business operation process. When enterprises face these pressures and challenges, third-party certification organizations become indispensable powerful support and reliable partners to help enterprises solve these difficulties. With the growing demand for certification of enterprises in China's mainland, will affect the strategic deployment of third-party certification bodies in China's development, the future will appear to the economically developed coastal areas gradually radiate to the national situation. Therefore, the huge development potential also makes the international certification bodies to speed up the process of expanding China's market, how to enhance the brand image, adjust the business direction and integration of business will be these international certification companies need to solve the problem. The long history, good reputation, and global customer resources of international certification organizations help them to improve their market position. Strengthening the company's core competitiveness will be the key to win in China's certification industry incentive competition. If the certification company can provide a broader scope of certification, can provide a variety of testing, then the customer does not need for a product to go through several certification companies to certify the implementation of the whole one-stop service business will be a third-party testing organizations in China's business development direction. In addition, the international third-party testing and certification bodies need to further strengthen cooperation with China's local certification bodies, the establishment of joint ventures and cooperative business, with the talent advantage of the international certification bodies and international experience, and China's government agencies to cooperate in the study of the new standards system. These standards should not only comply with international standards but also need to be more in line with China's specific circumstances. China's socio-economic development, many new standards system was created, and any one certification is not a lifetime system, the need for regular reassessment of certification. As a result, there is such a vast market with unlimited potential that Chinese and foreign organizations are trying to exploit the market by taking advantage of their respective strengths and forming synergies. The joint venture will provide services for Chinese companies going into the international market, as well as creating links for international sellers to enter the Chinese market.
International authoritative third-party certification bodies in China has a good development prospects, establish a strong brand strategy and localization strategy will make the development of these international authoritative certification bodies in China more competitive, and the international advanced management ideas, concepts and methods through rigorous testing and certification services, passed to more Chinese enterprises, for Chinese enterprises to expand exports and improve competitiveness We will contribute to the expansion of Chinese enterprises' exports and enhancement of their competitiveness.