From June 30 to July 1, the Second International Seminar on the Development of the “China Green Product” Labeling and Certification System was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. More than 200 experts, scholars, entrepreneurs, and government officials from the conformity assessment fields of China, the United States, Germany, Turkey, and other countries gathered to discuss the establishment of a unified “China Green Product” labeling and certification system. Jiang Quan, Chief Engineer of China Building Materials Test and Certification Group Co., Ltd. (CTC Headquarters) and President of the Green Product Certification Institute, was invited to attend the meeting and delivered a thematic exchange on the research results of the green building materials evaluation indicator system.

In his speech, Liu Weijun, Deputy Director of the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China, pointed out that the work of establishing a green conformity assessment system should draw on the experience of developed countries and, through relatively high-level exchanges and discussions, exert a positive influence on the development of China's green products.

Ines Oehme, a senior official of the German Federal Environment Agency and representative of the German government, congratulated the convening of the meeting and put forward suggestions on strengthening China-Germany cooperation in the field of green product conformity assessment. Zhu Baojun, Consul at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai and representative of the U.S. government, stated that cooperation between the two countries in the field of sustainable development would become closer. Relevant representatives from the German Federal Environment Agency and UL respectively provided systematic and detailed introductions to the German green product system and the U.S. green product system, and shared successful cases of the promotion and application of world-renowned green products, namely Germany's RAL (Blue Angel) and the U.S. UL (ECOLOGO).

Jiang Quan, Chief Engineer of CTC and President of the Green Product Certification Institute, as a representative of the product group, exchanged views at the conference on the research results of the green building materials evaluation indicator system. This evaluation indicator system basically conforms to the internationally accepted multi-criteria environmental labeling assessment method, and its scientific nature, rationality, and operability were unanimously recognized by the attending representatives.

The attending experts discussed and shared the current status, measures, and research results achieved by relevant project teams in advancing the development of China's green product labeling and certification system. They unanimously agreed that establishing a unified green product labeling and certification system is a need for building an ecological civilization system and supporting the implementation of the national supply-side structural reform strategy, and is also an inevitable choice for improving the supply quality of China's manufacturing industry and achieving green development.