The administrations responsible for market regulation in Shanxi province, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei province, and Inner Mongolia autonomous region in North China recently signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on ways to standardize their operations.

In the agreement, the five sides reached a consensus on the construction of a common system, regional coordinated standard formulation and revision, mutual recognition of standards, pilot demonstration zone construction, strengthening cooperation between standardization service institutions, standard information sharing, and the standardization of public welfare lectures.

They will continue to innovate in the regional standardization working mechanism, integrate regional standardization resources, and deepen standardization exchanges and cooperation.