Quality innovation serves as the core engine for industrial transformation and upgrading. Since the beginning of this year, Jiaxing has adhered to developing new quality productive forces as the main line, positioning quality development and standard innovation as the core drivers for promoting high-quality development and serving the construction of a new development pattern. The city is accelerating the establishment of a tiered structure featuring traditional industry renewal, emerging industry rise, and future industry reserves.
As of now, the city has cumulatively published 479 "Zhejiang Manufacturing" standards and led the formulation of 14 international standards, ranking second in the province. 560 companies have obtained "Pin Zi Biao" certification, with brand value exceeding 100 billion yuan, charting an innovative path where quality transformation drives industrial upgrading and brand building empowers urban development.
**Quality Chain Strengthening: Full-Chain Empowerment for Industrial Quality Upgrade**
Recently, at the laboratory of the Yangtze River Delta Hydrogen Safety Research Center located in Jiaxing Port Area, researchers are closely monitoring data curves on screens - the hydrogen permeation performance test of plastic inner liners for hydrogen storage cylinders under extreme pressure has entered a critical phase. This technology, which fills a domestic gap, is one of the core subjects of the National Market Supervision Administration's major flagship project "Research on Hydrogen Storage Cylinder Testing Technology and Basic Safety of Hydrogen Storage and Transportation Special Equipment."
The safety of hydrogen energy storage and transportation equipment is a key bottleneck in the industrial chain. Focusing on this pain point, Jiaxing leverages the technical advantages of "two centers and one key laboratory," not only building a leading comprehensive testing platform domestically but also actively planning the establishment of hydrogen energy field standard technical committee working groups. Currently, the first phase of the project has been successfully completed, and the second phase proposal has successfully entered the National Market Supervision Administration's list.
The breakthrough in the hydrogen energy industry is a microcosm of Jiaxing's comprehensive advancement of the quality city strategy. Since the beginning of this year, Jiaxing has achieved significant results in industrial quality improvement, brand cultivation, and enterprise services: Pinghu successfully entered the National Market Supervision Administration's "Quality County, Hundred Cities Quality Improvement" key activities, and the down clothing industry was selected for cross-regional quality chain linkage projects; Xiuzhou's smart home appliance industry was recommended by the provincial market supervision bureau for national sandbox regulation pilot applications, actively exploring flexible regulation pathways; Jiaxing and Tongxiang were successively awarded the "Zhejiang Provincial Government Quality Award Organization Award," with Tongxiang being the only county-level city in the province to receive this honor.
"Quality transformation is a systematic project that must be empowered through full-chain, multi-dimensional approaches," said Zhou Haifeng, Deputy Director of Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau. The bureau vigorously implements the "Quality Enterprise Strengthening" action, focusing on the "Quality Improvement Enterprise Strengthening Action" practical project, exploring the construction of the "Jiaxing Premium" evaluation system, and innovatively launching the "Quality Leading Future · Smart Gathering Jiaxing" quality lecture hall to create a regional quality "golden business card."
In the first half of the year, the city added 349 new Chief Quality Officers, and 242 companies introduced advanced quality management methods. Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau proactively visited and supported 2,245 enterprises, closed-loop resolved 1,822 quality issues, conducted 701 training sessions covering over 48,000 person-times, and cumulatively served over 9,280 enterprise visits.
"Under the precise guidance of the municipal market supervision bureau, Chief Quality Officers are no longer nominal positions but 'engines' driving enterprise quality innovation," said a relevant person in charge of Jushi Group, pointing to the glass fiber production line. At this moment, the tension of each fiber is under real-time monitoring by the digital twin system. This system, which helped Jushi brand value exceed 22.6 billion yuan and maintain the global industry lead for ten consecutive years, is inseparable from the "12350 Quality Management Method for Full Value Chain Improvement" promoted by its Chief Quality Officer.
In January this year, at the Zhejiang Provincial Chief Quality Officer Quality Transformation Case Competition, Jushi Group and Jiaxing Longi Solar Technology Co., Ltd. captured two of the three special prize positions, helping Zhejiang win first place in the national Chief Quality Officer Innovation Transformation Case Selection, demonstrating the excellent quality of "Jiaxing Quality."
"Our QC group project also received the highest demonstration-level honor at the 2024 China Quality Innovation and Quality Improvement Achievement Awards," said a relevant person in charge of Longi Solar the day after receiving the award, rushing to Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau to present a banner and thank-you letter reading: "Caring for enterprises to strengthen quality, excellent service to assist development!"
Precise policy guidance is fostering a bright matrix of "Jiaxing Premium" products. Taking the smart clothes drying rack industry as an example, Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau actively leads the coordination of leading enterprises, research institutions, and testing agencies to jointly tackle challenges, formulating group standards stricter than national and industry standards, and establishing dynamic supervision mechanisms to ensure enterprises "produce according to standards." Through leading or participating in the formulation of 3 national, industry, and group standards, Jiaxing took the lead in achieving full coverage of standards in the clothes drying machine field and promoted the "Jiaxing Clothes Drying Machine" regional public brand to be selected as a "Zhejiang Provincial Regional Famous Brand." Currently, Jiaxing has gathered over 200 clothes drying machine-related enterprises, with industrial scale and market share firmly ranking first nationwide.
In the second half of the year, Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau will also focus on 4 major categories and 8 types of key consumer goods including leather, knitwear, down clothing, and luggage, launching "one product, one policy" consumer goods concentrated quality improvement actions. Meanwhile, gradually cultivated leading enterprises such as Jushi, Tongkun, and Xinfengming will sprint toward the China Quality Award.
**Standards Leadership: Seizing Rule-Making Power in International Competition**
Recently, two international standards in the low-altitude economy field led by Jiaxing - "General Requirements for Mission Payload Interfaces of Civil Light and Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems" and "General Requirements for Flight Control Systems of Civil Light and Small Multi-rotor Unmanned Aircraft" - have been officially published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), successfully filling the international standard gap in this field.
International standards, as globally universal technical specifications, have always been the core battlefield of international competition, with the saying "whoever gets the standards gets the world." As the only prefecture-level city among Zhejiang Province's first batch of comprehensive standardization pilot cities, Jiaxing has continued to focus on standardization construction in recent years with remarkable results. As of now, Jiaxing has led the formulation of 14 international standards, 191 national standards, and 1,091.5 various advanced standards, with the number of advanced standards led per million population ranking first in the province.
Behind the impressive data is Jiaxing's strategic breakthrough against global trade barriers using "standard internationalization" as a spear. This breakthrough began with strong drive from top-level design: In 2023, Jiaxing's municipal Party committee and government issued the "Urban Standardization Comprehensive Pilot Construction Plan," taking the lead in the province to construct a standard city building system. The policy incentive intensity is unprecedented, with a maximum reward of 1 million yuan for a single international standard and cumulative investment exceeding 50 million yuan in the past two years. Driven by the government-built "standard strong engine," the international standards led by the city have shown explosive growth.
"This reward directly promoted the upgrade of our experimental equipment," said Shao Feng, Director of the National Enterprise Technology Center at Tiantongtrol Holdings Co., Ltd., displaying surface acoustic wave device chips as thin as cicada wings. The relevant standards revised and led by this enterprise achieved China's "zero breakthrough" in international standard projects in this field, laying the foundation for China's high-end electronic component industry to "go global."
The success of the breakthrough is also inseparable from the joint support of the "standards corps." Jiaxing highly values professional capacity building, with 578 "Standards Chief Engineers" actively working between laboratories and production lines year-round, and 18 international standardization registered experts actively voicing opinions on international stages such as IEC and ISO. Notably, Jiaxing has included China Standard Innovation Contribution Award (Individual) and international standardization registered experts in the high-level talent recognition system, with one person currently receiving the IEC 1906 Award.
"We encountered countless difficulties during the standard revision process, and every time we just needed to make a phone call, the municipal market supervision bureau could quickly coordinate industry experts to help solve problems," said Qian Weijie, technical person in charge of State Grid Jiaxing Power Supply Company. Recently, they led the revision of IEC electrical measuring instrument installation dimension standards, unifying global installation specifications. Qian Weijie himself is also a "Standards Chief Engineer," often providing "support" for technical breakthroughs of other enterprises.
At the benchmarking research center of the China National Institute of Standardization Yangtze River Delta Branch, large screens display real-time global latest standard dynamics. "This system can complete standard comparison analysis that previously required weeks in just a few minutes," said Director Cheng Yonghong during demonstration. This platform, developed based on the digital big data foundation of the National Standards Library, is providing "standard navigation" for tens of thousands of manufacturing enterprises in the region.
Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau has also collaborated with customs, commerce departments, and international testing certification agency SGS to deeply analyze REACH regulations, green recyclability requirements and risks. This year, it has cumulatively issued 1,880 TBT notifications and 531 SPS notification risk warnings, and actively conducted relevant standards and barrier rule training to assist innovative industrial development.
Standardization reconstruction is reshaping the industrial landscape. In recent years, Jiaxing has focused on "135N" advanced manufacturing industry clusters, constructing over ten industrial standard systems including CNC machine tools and solar photovoltaics in fields such as new materials and new energy. In 2024, 155 standard innovative enterprises were cultivated and included in the database, with 66 standard "leaders." The city's 96 provincial-level "sharp soldier" and "leading goose" scientific research projects produced 77 international, national, and industry standards. Under the "dual-wheel drive" of technological innovation and standard development, Jiaxing successfully created the first batch of national manufacturing new technology transformation pilot cities, won the Zhejiang Manufacturing Tiangong Ding Gold Tripod, with strategic emerging industries and digital economy core manufacturing industries accounting for 44.5% and 25.8% of above-scale industrial proportions respectively, both ranking among the top in Zhejiang Province.
Li Chenyuan, Director of Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau, stated that market supervision departments will lead various municipal departments to focus on factor guarantee, project cultivation, and service quality improvement to create a "combination punch," accelerating the construction of a standard system supporting high-quality development.
**Foundation Strengthening: Building High-Level Quality Support System**
"Brand customers are very satisfied with this platform's testing, and submitting for testing helps us develop more new customers," said Zhao Min, a salesperson at Tongxiang Mingpai Garment Co., Ltd., who is a regular at Tongxiang Sweater Market's quick testing station. This one-stop service platform not only compresses testing time by 40% but also adds windows for master's and doctoral service teams and "quality loans," launching online services such as "laboratory cloud opening" and "sunshine testing." In the first half of the year, the platform has provided over 8,000 technical services and conducted free trials for over 100 small and medium enterprises.
This is a vivid footnote to Jiaxing's construction of a high-level quality support system. Since the beginning of this year, Jiaxing has focused on "foundation strengthening" as the core, building solid capabilities for regional high-quality development through three major pathways: platform optimization, regulatory innovation, and service upgrading.
High-level platform construction is blooming comprehensively in Jiaxing. Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau, together with Jiaxing Jia'an Inspection and Testing Co., Ltd., and China Inspection and Testing Group Co., Ltd., jointly explores zero-carbon laboratory "dual carbon" certification pilots, obtaining the nation's first "zero-carbon laboratory" certification certificate; relying on the 36th Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Jiaxing is accelerating the construction of a provincial industrial metrology center for marine electronic equipment and promoting the integration and upgrade of national quality inspection centers; high-level construction of national inspection and testing high-tech service industry clusters, actively participating in Yangtze River Delta metrology comparison work; at the Yangtze River Delta (Jiaxing) Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park located in Jiaxing Port Area, accelerating the establishment of the nation's first one-stop hydrogen quality comprehensive testing certification service institution with CMA qualification certification, equipped with advanced analytical instruments to serve national hydrogen refueling stations and hydrogen fuel cell equipment...
Deeper quality transformation occurs at the institutional level. This year, the "General Rules for Product Quality Safety Graded Classification Supervision" led by Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau was approved for the first batch of industry standard projects by the National Market Supervision Administration, has completed national opinion solicitation work, and will soon convene a pre-review meeting.
In Pinghu's down clothing industrial belt, quality grading has been implemented in practice. "Scan this QR code and you can see information about filling cleanliness, raw material traceability, etc.," said Zhang Binfei, Deputy General Manager of Pinghu China Garment City, displaying the "quality identity card" on clothing. Since the beginning of this year, Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau has solidly promoted down clothing product quality improvement work, focusing on solving problems such as goods not matching descriptions and false advertising through creating traceability systems, establishing "whistle-blowing" mechanisms, and piloting product quality grading, effectively protecting consumer rights and assisting the high-quality development of the down clothing industry. Currently, 213 local enterprises have been included in the classification and grading database, with 20 becoming first-batch pilots. "Grade A products directly enter high-end channels, forcing enterprises to improve quality."
Smart supervision penetrates all links: the "Zhejiang Li Jian 2.0" platform realizes "one-click submission, one-network handling," serving over 10,000 enterprises annually; the key industrial product quality traceability system covers 473 enterprises, collecting 2,540 data entries; full-chain electric bicycle improvement inspected 1,762 enterprises, discovered 366 problems, all completed rectification...
Additionally, Jiaxing Market Supervision Bureau formulated the "2025 Jiaxing Regional Block Product Quality Improvement Work Plan," guiding and promoting regional block industries including food packaging, smart home, wood industry, electric clothes drying machines, luggage, down clothing, leather, and knitwear to carry out product quality improvement work. Since the beginning of this year, the city has completed 710 batches of supervision sampling, covering key areas such as building insulation materials and gas appliances. The city has established "one enterprise, one file" dynamic ledgers, with 135 key enterprises included in list management and 2,540 key industrial product code traceability information entries.
From precise testing of sweater fibers to safety certification of hydrogen energy storage and transportation, from electric bicycle battery supervision to down clothing quality grading - Jiaxing has achieved profound transformation from "supervision" to "governance" through constructing a modern quality infrastructure system. When quality service becomes "standard equipment" for industrial development, traditional manufacturing is moving toward a new stage of high-quality development in value reconstruction.
"Quality improvement requires government guidance, enterprise leadership, technical support, and social participation working in the same direction," Li Chenyuan stated. In the next step, market supervision departments will continue to deepen quality enterprise strengthening, quality chain strengthening, and quality city strengthening work, allowing the "quality engine" to provide more powerful momentum for Jiaxing's high-quality development.