The State Administration for Market Regulation and the Hong Kong Electrical and Mechanical Services Department held the first annual meeting of the "Quality and Safety Management Cooperation Arrangement."

People’s Finance News, April 2—Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department of Hong Kong jointly convened the first annual meeting of the “Quality and Safety Management Cooperation Arrangement.” The meeting reviewed and summarized the cooperation and exchange between the mainland and Hong Kong in five areas: standards and metrology, gas-related special equipment, mechanical installations such as elevators and hydrogen energy pressure vessels, home products, and the labeling of energy efficiency. It also reached consensus on a number of next-step tasks, including further deepening cooperation in quality and safety management and jointly promoting “soft interconnection” of rules and standards for the Belt and Road Initiative. The two sides agreed to continuously deepen cooperation and exchanges in the field of quality and safety management, strengthen information exchange and regulatory coordination in areas such as special equipment supervision and product recalls, and promote the smooth trade of high-quality compliant products. Taking deepening cooperation in the hydrogen energy sector as a “breakthrough point,” they will support more Hong Kong experts to participate in the formulation of national standards and international standards, promote green hydrogen certification in pilot programs in the Greater Bay Area, further deepen the construction of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, and support Hong Kong in participating in and contributing to the “soft interconnection” construction of rules and standards for the Belt and Road Initiative.