Xinhuanet, Beijing, February 17 (Xinhuanet) — The reporter learned from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on the 17th that the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently jointly issued a notice to strengthen the supervision of major equipment, metallurgy, electric power, petroleum and petrochemical, environmental protection and other 9 major industries, 35 equipment professional major equipment or key equipment, included in the first batch of major equipment catalogue encouraged by the state to implement equipment supervision. According to reports, this is the first time since the establishment of China’s equipment supervision system in 2001, the three departments have jointly issued a specific catalogue for the implementation of equipment supervision.
Equipment supervision refers to the unit that meets the statutory conditions to accept the entrustment of the client, in accordance with the relevant national laws and regulations, mandatory standards and procurement contracts, to provide professional services for equipment quality, investment, progress and safety. The notice of the three departments pointed out that the current major equipment in China shows the characteristics of large investment scale, high technical complexity, long manufacturing and installation cycle and difficult to replace in the process of production and operation, once a quality and safety accident occurs, it is bound to cause major personal injuries and property losses, and must be paid great attention to.
The notice emphasizes that it is necessary to earnestly implement the responsibility for the quality and safety of major equipment. The contractor or supplier of major equipment shall be responsible for the design, manufacture and installation quality of the major equipment contracted or contracted by it; The main owner of major equipment is to improve the investment decision-making process and project management system; The equipment supervision unit is entrusted by the client to implement management services and professional supervision on equipment quality, investment, progress and safety.
The notice requires that equipment supervision shall be implemented for major equipment involved in government investment projects, state-owned enterprises or state-controlled enterprises that need to be approved by the government in investment projects involving the catalog. The state will also explore the establishment of a liability insurance system to support the localization of the first (set) of major equipment.
The notice proposes that the three departments will establish and improve the collaborative management mechanism for the supervision of major equipment, and will organize joint or special supervision, inspection and inspection of major projects and major equipment involving the catalog in a timely manner.