Trains ride to standardization

With innovation playing an increasingly important role in economic growth, the standardization strategy has become a powerful force promoting industrial upgrading and spurring nascent industries. The more "Chinese standards" are recognized internationally, the more powerful technological support they will provide for the transformation of Chinese manufacturing from "Made in China" to "Designed in China".

The launch of the Fuxing (Rejuvenation) high-speed train, as an example of high Chinese standards, on June 26 between Beijing and Shanghai is a case in point, as China has total intellectual property rights over the train, which can run at speeds of up to 400 kilometers an hour. It runs at 350 km an hour on the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, though.

Its research and development involved 254 major industrial standards in fields such as communications, electronic and electrical technologies, and fire safety- and 84 percent of those belong to China.