In addition to considering the right price when purchasing reassuring products, today's consumers are increasingly linked to product safety, quality, and environmental requirements. While authoritative certification verifies product performance to a certain extent, it can quickly win consumers' trust in brands, build a bridge of trust between consumers and enterprises, and play a role in guiding consumption. It is an internationally adopted way to improve product and service quality. One of the important means to promote sustainable economic and social development.

1.Overview of certification

Certification refers to the conformity assessment activities of certification bodies to prove that products, services, and management systems comply with the compulsory requirements or standards of relevant technical specifications. They are mainly divided into two categories: system certification and product certification. Among them, system certification refers to the third-party evaluation of the company's management system or products by a third-party agency. An independent third-party quality system certification was born in the late 1970s and evolved from product quality certification. Product certification refers to the activities of a third party that can be fully trusted to prove that a product or service meets certain standards or other technical specifications, and is divided into two types: compulsory certification and voluntary certification. The differences between product quality certification and quality system certification are: different certification objects; different certification methods, different use of certification, different basis for implementing quality system audit, and different types of applicant enterprises.

The certification activities were originally carried out by the first party and the second party. The former was an enterprise's self-evaluation activities in order to improve its own management level and product quality; the latter was the product purchaser's own or entrusted a third party to conduct evaluation activities. However, the activities carried out by the first party and the second party have certain limitations and cannot meet the two needs of society for safety and quality: one is the need for independence, professionalism and impartiality assessment, and the other is The need for credibility and authority of the assessment results. Therefore, an objective, independent and impartial third-party certification body is required to intervene. A third-party certification organization refers to an organization that has the necessary capabilities for reliable implementation of the certification system and can engage in certification activities objectively, impartially, and independently during the certification process.

2.Market-oriented development of the certification industry

The certification agency industry has a century of modern service industry as an intermediary between supply and demand. With the active production of products and the increase in trade exchanges, certification activities have also continued to develop in depth and breadth. At present, China's certification industry is in a stage of rapid development. It is learned from the national certification and accreditation information service platform that as of October 2019, a total of 231.5181 million valid certification certificates have been issued nationwide; a total of 508 valid certification institutions have been issued. It is worth noting that at present China's certification industry is generally small in scale, with a scattered layout structure, a single testing variety, many institutions repeat testing, and the results do not recognize each other. Moreover, the vast majority of institutions have not fully and truly entered the market, and urgently need to integrate, optimize resource allocation, and bring into play scale effects. At the same time, in this field, China has basically been completely liberalized, and multinational inspection and certification institutions have entered. However, China does not yet have an internationally recognized third-party inspection and inspection institution, and rarely "goes out" to open the international market. Inspection and certification services have lagged far behind the needs of "Made in China".

Therefore, from the perspective of future development, certification is an important way for the country to vigorously develop emerging industries and guide industrial transformation and upgrading. Since the certification industry is a high-tech service industry, its vigorous development has played an important role in promoting structural adjustment and industrial upgrading. In recent years, the state has clearly stated that it is necessary to speed up the development of third-party inspection, testing and certification services, encourage equal ownership of market competition by inspection and certification institutions of different ownerships, continuously enhance authority and credibility, and provide strong support and guarantee services for improving product quality; optimize resource allocation To guide the development of inspection and certification institutions, promote the integration of inspection and certification institutions with the same or similar business; foster a group of inspection and certification groups with strong technical capabilities, high service levels, good economies of scale, and a certain international influence.

3.The new era gives a new mission

China National Materials (Beijing) Testing and Certification Service Co., Ltd. (referred to as "National Material Certification", registered trademark: Guocai, Guocai (Beijing) Test And Certification Service Co., Ltd) Third-party professional certification body, approval number: CNCA-R-2019-549, belongs to the National Building Materials Exhibition and Trade Center.

"National Material Certification" is committed to providing certification, inspection and testing, and standard setting for China's construction, building materials, forestry industries and related industries to carry out certification and related technical services in accordance with the principles of standardization and fairness. A team of experts provides health, safety and quality-certified products for the domestic and foreign construction, building materials and related product markets. At the same time, "National Material Certification" is committed to promoting China's initiative for the common development of the "Belt and Road", providing international companies with "Going Global" development services through international benchmarking, inspection and testing, and technical exchanges. Providing third-party inspection and testing for export-oriented products , Standard docking, technical training and other services, especially for international market access and technical standards to accelerate international mutual recognition and promote Chinese enterprises to "go global" and participate in international capacity cooperation.

Overview of the development history and development characteristics of voluntary product certification systems at home and abroad, the scope of the certification industry will continue to expand in the future, and everything is user-centered, requiring rapid technological research and development, rapid market feedback, rapid technological upgrade, and rapid production response A series of speedups have also put forward higher requirements for technical services such as product certification. Using flexible and efficient flexible manufacturing capabilities to meet the diverse needs of users, complex distribution channels and changing user needs have directly led to explosive growth in testing workloads; revolutionary changes in the way of value transfer, detection and calibration, and online testing and remote certification may. The great era, the era of change, requires certification of change and innovation.