China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Finance opened a public consultation on Oct. 30 on a draft domestic-product standard for fixed multi-joint industrial robots in government procurement. The draft is one of five product-specific standards released together; the consultation closes Nov. 13.
The other drafts cover portable Fourier-transform infrared gas analyzers, reverse-osmosis water-treatment equipment, field-emission scanning electron microscopes and small- and medium-sized helicopters. The notice says the drafts are intended to support a government-procurement system in which eligible products can be assessed under product-specific domestic-content rules.
Source: MIIT ↗