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On 14 May 2015, the fifth annual meeting of the Sino-German Working Group on Product Safety took place at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ) in Beijing. Chaired by Department Head Sun Wenkang (Department of Supervision on Inspection, AQSIQ) and Deputy Head Liu Weijun (Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China, CNCA), results of the Sino-German cooperation on product safety were discussed with Department Head Dr.Wolfgang Scheremet (Industrial Policy, BMWi).

On 11 May 2015, the first annual meeting of the Subworking Group on Product Safety in the Automobile Industry took place at the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) in Beijing.

In the context of the Sub Working Group on Product Safety in the Automotive Industry, a delegation visit of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ), the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNCA), the China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) and further specialised institutions to Germany and Brussels took place from 20 to 24 April 2015.

During the annual meeting of the Sino-German Working Group on Product Safety in June 2014, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) agreed to answer to recent challenges in the trade of automotive products by setting up a sub-working group on product safety in the automotive industry.

The fourth annual meeting of the Sino-German Working Group on Product Safety took place on 23 June, 2014 at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin.

On 21 February 2014 representatives of the German Association of the Toy Industry (DVSI), German toy companies as well as testing and certification institutions met in Hamburg at invitation of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and GIZ for a planning workshop to investigate two thematic priorities of the Quality Infrastructure Project involving the toy industry.