On July 6, the Asia Pacific Automotive Certified Parts Industry Development Forum, hosted by China Automotive Technology and Research Center Co., Ltd., was successfully held in Huishan District, Wuxi. At this forum, the Asia Pacific Automotive Certified Parts Alliance was officially announced. More than 300 participants from government departments such as the Certification and Accreditation Administration of China, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Transport, as well as industry organizations, automotive parts manufacturers, auto insurance companies, 4S dealership groups, parts distributors, repair service providers, and aftermarket big data enterprises, attended the forum and jointly witnessed the entire process of the alliance's establishment. Twenty-five alliance member units were officially awarded plaques, and the alliance declaration was read. On July 5, the first meeting of the Alliance Council was held in Wuxi, where the basic organizational structure, work plan, and other contents of the alliance were discussed and approved. CTC, as a founding unit, was elected as Vice Chairman Unit of the alliance and also became one of the alliance's first batch of authorized certification and testing institutions.

The Asia Pacific Automotive Certified Parts Alliance, with the English name Asia Pacific Automotive Certified Parts Alliance (APACPA), upholds the concept of “extensive consultation, joint contribution, and win-win cooperation.” It regulates the healthy development of the automotive aftermarket parts market by formulating certification basis standards and certification implementation rules, promotes the quality improvement of aftermarket parts products and the acceptance of certification results, and is an industry collaboration organization initiated and established through the joint signing of an alliance agreement by insurance companies, aftermarket parts user organizations, parts manufacturers, parts distributors, authoritative certification bodies in the domestic automotive industry, testing institutions, national standards bodies, and national policy support institutions. The alliance secretariat is located at China Automotive Technology and Research Center Co., Ltd. The alliance aims to integrate industry resources, strengthen collaborative cooperation, and build a platform for improving the quality of automotive aftermarket parts. Through authoritative testing and certification, automotive aftermarket parts form a complete industrial chain and build a sound ecosystem. Certified parts implement a one-item-one-code label, establishing a traceability and anti-counterfeiting system, providing authoritative quality-assured certified products and excellent services for automotive parts users and consumers, and reflecting the social responsibility of the alliance.

CTC inherits the rigorous and scientific research attitude of China Building Materials Academy, actively practices the mission of making life better, upholds the quality philosophy of “Delivering Trust, Serving Development,” and provides healthy, safe, and high-quality third-party testing and certification services to the public. CTC is the secretariat unit of the Safety Glazing Subcommittee of the National Technical Committee for Automotive Standardization. In 1988, CTC led the formulation of China's national standard for automotive safety glass and has carried out automotive safety glass certification work since 1989. In 2014, CTC led the publication of ISO 17449 “Road Vehicles — Safety Glazing Materials — Test Method for Performance of Electrically Heated Glass,” the first ISO international standard in China's automotive industry. At the same time, CTC strengthens international mutual recognition and cooperation, providing certification services such as EU ECE, U.S. DOT, Brazil INMETRO, and Gulf GSO for domestic enterprises, and promotes the standardization and normalization of automotive aftermarket services through work such as automotive glass installation service certification and glass film service certification.