With its entry into me WTO, China has become an open market that everybody has a chance to penetrate. However, to gain access to the Chinese marketplace, manufacturers must be prepared to negotiate a challenging cultural, legal, and regulatory maze. The recent major reforms in Mil's telecom approval process, including new documentation requirements, have, unfortunately, not lowered the bar for most telecom products that manufacturers want to get into the market in China. There are exceptions worth mentioning. Optical fiber has been deregulated, and optical cable is listed as a voluntary certification product. This article has outlined the new rules for Chinese telecom approvals and noted the MII reforms that took place during 2003. MII has reorganized its testing, certification, and approval agencies. Test laboratories are undergoing reorganization and merger in order to offer efficiencies through streamlining. The responsibilities of the MII test labs and certification center are now more clearly defined, and new documents have been published that more clearly explain requirements. New quality assurance and monitoring systems are being set up.
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