China Association of Automobile Manufacturers Calls for Enhanced Production Consistency and Quality Safety Standards

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) recently issued an initiative calling for enhanced consistency in automotive production and improved product quality and safety. The initiative includes the following key points: - Uphold safety as the fundamental baseline and strengthen the foundation of quality and safety. - Reinforce high-quality standards to set industry benchmarks. - Enhance enterprises’ quality and safety controls and improve comprehensive quality management systems. - Optimize supply chain management to elevate the safety and quality of the automotive supply chain. - Standardize technological innovation, further strengthening verification and testing in product design innovation. - Ensure responsible marketing practices, welcome public oversight, and actively fulfill corporate social responsibility. Regarding the standardization of technological innovation, the initiative emphasizes the need to regulate the application of new technologies, establish a traceable risk assessment system for product technologies, thoroughly evaluate associated safety risks, and comprehensively reinforce verification and testing of innovative product designs to eliminate "pseudo-innovation." It specifically highlights the importance of rigorous development, testing, verification, and safety evaluation of combined driver-assistance and autonomous driving functions, calls for standardized whole-vehicle type-approval testing and reliability validation requirements, and aims to significantly enhance the quality and reliability of both complete vehicles and system components.