AQSIQ

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AQSIQ
AQSIQ is a ministerial administrative organ
directly under the State Council of the People's
Republic of China in charge of national quality,
metrology, entryexit commodity inspection,
entry-exit health quarantine, entry-exit animal
and plant quarantine, import-export food safey,
certification and accreditation, standardization,
as well as administrative law-enforcement.
19 In-house Departments
15 Direct Affiliates
10 Independent Associations
General Office, Dept. of Legislation, Dept. of
Quality Management, Dept. of Metrology, Dept.
of Inspection and Quarantine Clearance, Dept. of
Supervision on Health Quarantine, Dept. of
Supervision on Animal and Plant Quarantine,
Dept. of Supervision on Inspection, Bureau of
Import and Export Food Safety, Bureau of Special
Equipment Safety Supervision, Dept. of
Supervision on Product Quality, Dept. of
Supervision on Food Production, Dept. of Law
Enforcement and Supervision (AQSIQ Office of
Fight against Counterfeits), Dept. of
International Cooperation (WTO Affaitrs Office),
Dept. of Science and Technology, Dept. of
Personnel, Dept. of Planning and Finance, Party
Committee (PC) Office, Bureau of Retiree Cadres.
AQSIQ Service Center, AQSIQ Information Center,
Research Center for International Inspection and
Quarantine Standard and Technical Regulation,
China Bureau of Fiber Inspection, China Academy
for Inspection and Quarantine, China National
Institute of Standardization (CNIS), National
Institute of Metrology (NLM), China Quality
Certification Center (CQC), China National
Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment,
China Special Equipment Inspection and Research
Center (CSEI), Human Resource Development and
Training Center, China Quality News, China
Inspection and Quarantine Times, Standards Press
of China (SPC), China Metrology Publishing
House. 
China Entry/Exit Inspection and Quarantine
Association, China International Travel Health
Care Association, China Association for Quality
Inspection, Chinese Measurement Association,
China Certification and Accreditation
Association, China Association for
Standardization (CAS), Chinese Society for
Measurement, China Trade Association for
Anti-counterfeiting, China Association of Plant
Engineering Consultants (CAPEC), China
Association for Quality Promotion.
WTO/TBT and WTO/SPS National Enquiry Points of
the P.R.C.
35 Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus
(CIQ) in 31 provinces 31 provincial-level
Bureaus of Quality and Technical Supervision
Technical support
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AQSIQ
CNCA SAC
AQSIQ undertakes to administrate the
Certification and Accreditation Administration of
the P.R. China (CNCA) and the Standardization
Administration of the P.R. China (SAC). Both are
vice-ministerial-level departments authorized by
the State Council .
Main Responsibilities
Laws and Regulations Quality Management
Management of Metrology Management of
Inspection and Quarantine Clearance Management
of Entry-Exit Health Quarantine Management of
Entry-Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine
Management of Import and Export Commodity
Inspection Management of Import and Export Food
Safety Safety Supervision of Special Equipment
Product Quality Supervision and Management
Supervision and Management on Food Production
Management of Law Enforcement and Supervision
International Cooperation Management of Science
and Technology Supervision and Management of
Certification and Accreditation Management of
Standardization
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CAPEC
CAPEC, founded on May 18th, 2004, is a
nation-level nonprofit professional intermediary
organization in Chinese plant engineering
industry. Affiliated to AQSIQ, it is a
self-discipline organization of Chinese
consulting engineers. CAPEC is organized by
representatives from such units and social
entities as plant engineering consulting, design,
manufacturing and users, as well as volunteers
related to plant engineering activities.   CAPEC
is committed to promoting the plant engineering
consulting system in China, and standardizing the
plant engineering activities through the
supervision and management over the process of
design, manufacture and installation of important
plants in construction projects, so as to ensure
the quality and investment benefits of the
plants, guarantee the important projects to be
implemented smoothly and promote China's plant
engineering consulting industry to keep pace with
that of developed countries earlier.
Functions
To implement and provide suggestions states
guidelines, policies, laws and regulations in
consulting engineering system To implement
states guidelines, policies, laws and
regulations in consulting engineering system, and
 to publicize the significance of improving the
plants quality To organize the compilation of
training materials and to organize the checkup
and approval to the training agencies To
organize academic exchanges and enhance the
cooperation among the relevant societies and
experts To build up the consulting engineering
information system To expand the publicity and
promotion work of consulting engineering To
draft the industry standards.
Organizational Structure