IBI Elected as Vice Chair Unit of the Ministry of Commerce Digital Commerce Industry Standardization Technical Committee

May 7, 2024

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Highlights at a glance

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has launched the Digital Commerce Three-Year Action Plan (2024–2026) and established the Digital Commerce Industry Standardization Technical Committee to enhance digital commerce's development via standardization. The plan includes five key initiatives focusing on infrastructure, consumption, trade, industry empowerment, and global collaboration to strengthen China's digital economy. IBI and other industry leaders will actively support this effort by leveraging resources and advancing industrial standards.

To implement the Digital Commerce Three-Year Action Plan (2024–2026), the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently established the Digital Commerce Industry Standardization Technical Committee. Guided by the Department of E-commerce and Informatization of MOFCOM, the committee aims to advance the standardization process in the field of digital commerce and promote its high-quality development. The Department of E-commerce and Informatization of MOFCOM serves as the Chair Unit of the committee, while IBI, together with the China International Electronic Commerce Center, the China Electronics Standardization Institute, the National Urban Industrial Products Trade Center Union, and the Hangzhou Institute of Standardization, has been elected as a Vice Chair Unit. The China International Electronic Commerce Center serves as the Secretariat Unit.

On April 26, MOFCOM issued the Digital Commerce Three-Year Action Plan (2024–2026), stating that digital commerce is the most dynamic, innovative, and widely applied component of the digital economy. It is the concrete practice of the digital economy in the commercial sector and serves as an implementation path for digital development across all areas of commerce. Through five key initiatives — “Strengthening the Digital Commerce Foundation,” “Expanding Digital Commerce Consumption,” “Boosting Digital Commerce in Trade,” “Empowering Industries with Digital Commerce,” and “Opening Up Digital Commerce” — the plan seeks to foster new productive forces, innovate digital transformation pathways, enhance the effectiveness of digital empowerment, improve digital support services, build a digital commerce ecosystem, and comprehensively raise the level of digitalization, networking, and intelligence in commerce, thereby strengthening and expanding China’s digital economy.

The “Strengthening the Digital Commerce Foundation” initiative of the plan explicitly calls for establishing and improving a digital commerce standards system, leveraging the Digital Commerce Industry Standardization Technical Committee, issuing guidelines for industry standardization work, accelerating the development of standards in key areas of commerce digitalization, promoting the implementation and application of standards, and improving industry management and service quality. It also emphasizes strengthening the business credit system and brand building, enhancing the quality of digital commerce, developing compliance guidelines for e-commerce enterprises, guiding enterprises to operate legally and compliantly, and promoting the standardized and healthy development of the industry.

As a practitioner of the digital economy, IBI will align closely with the overall requirements of the Digital Commerce Three-Year Action Plan, actively participate in the work of the Digital Commerce Industry Standardization Technical Committee, leverage its resource advantages in the industrial digital economy, and use its industrial internet chain-leader role to contribute to the five key initiatives of strengthening, expanding, boosting, empowering, and opening up digital commerce.

List of Members of the Standardization Technical Committee

for the Digital Commerce Industry

Unit	Position in the Committee
Department of E - commerce and Information, Ministry of Commerce	Chairperson
China International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC)	Vice - Chairperson
China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI)	Vice - Chairperson
National Federation of City Industrial Products Trading Centers	Vice - Chairperson
Hangzhou Institute of Standardization	Vice - Chairperson
Beijing United Information Technology Co., Ltd	Vice - Chairperson
China International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC)	Secretary - General
China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS)	Deputy Secretary - General
China Chain Store & Franchise Association9 (CCFA)	Deputy Secretary - General
Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce	Committee Member
China Advertising Association (CAA)	Committee Member
Beijing DeHeng Law Offices	Committee Member
Jiangsu Sunrui Law Firm	Committee Member
China National Light Industry Enterprise Management Association (CNLIA)	Committee Member
Beijing Electronic Commerce Association (BECA)	Committee Member
Procurement Committee of Beijing Logistics and Supply Chain Management Association	Committee Member
Shanghai Electronic Business Association	Committee Member
Shaanxi Electronic Commerce Association	Committee Member
University of International Business and Economics	Committee Member
Beijing Technology and Business University	Committee Member
China Jiliang University	Committee Member
Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University	Committee Member
Sunhola Group	Committee Member
Shanghai Academy of Quality Management	Committee Member
China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS)	Committee Member
Article Numbering Center of China (ANCC)	Committee Member
Shenzhen Zhongxin E - commerce Transaction Guarantee Promotion Center	Committee Member
Xiamen Institute of Standardization	Committee Member
Zhejiang Tmall Technology Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co., Ltd. (Meituan)	Committee Member
Beijing Douyin Information Service Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Epec E-commerce Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Shenzhen Comix Group Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Ant Group Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Beijing Wumart Supermarket Co., Ltd.	Committee Member
Article Numbering Center of China (ANCC)	Observer
SMART Steps DIGITAL Technology Co., Ltd.	Observer