The inaugural meeting and the first plenary meeting of the National Standardization Technical Committee on Platform Economy Governance (SAC/TC 611) were held in Beijing on August 29. Deng Zhiyong, Vice Minister of SAMR and Administrator of National Standardization Administration of China (SAC), addressed the inaugural meeting.

The meeting highlighted the importance of standardization for platform economy governance. SAC/TC 611 is established to leverage the systematic supporting role of standardization in advancing the modernization of China’s systems and capacity for governance. It will strengthen its leading role in clarifying market rules and regulating industrial development, promote the simultaneous improvement of the compliance operation level of platform enterprises with harmonized standards, and drive the transformation of the platform economy from scale expansion to quality optimization.

SAC/TC 611 will adhere to a problem-oriented approach, focus on key areas, critical links, and bottlenecks in platform economy governance, and strengthen the top-level design of rules and regulations. By laying a sound foundation of standards, the efficiency of standardization work for platform economy governance will be enhanced, and a scientific and systematic national standards system will be established. Also, efforts will be made to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, helping standards and industries to go global.

The meeting approved institutional documents of SAC/TC 611, and reviewed the proposals of two national standards on the requirements for service management of live e-commerce platforms and the rules for submitting online transaction compliance data.

The meeting was attended by relevant industry experts and members of SAC/TC 611, who came from national and local authorities, enterprises, associations, research institutions and universities.