CAAM: Discard the irrational innovation model that emphasizes form over safety, and move safety assessment to the forefront of the entire product innovation process.

Cailian Press, October 11 (GMTEight) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments, on October 10 drafted the "Notice on Further Strengthening Management Work Related to Automotive Product Innovation Design and R&D Test Verification (Draft for Comment)," focusing on rectifying unreasonable innovative designs and improving the R&D test verification management system. By raising access management requirements for automotive products, it aims to firmly enterprises' primary responsibility for product safety. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) firmly supports this measure and has issued an initiative to the entire industry to comprehensively improve the safety level of China's automotive products. At present, China's automotive industry is accelerating its electrification and intelligent transformation, the pace of product innovation and iteration continues to quicken, and various new technologies and new functions are being widely applied. At the same time, some unreasonable designs that one-sidedly pursue innovation gimmicks while ignoring the safety bottom line, as well as problems such as insufficient R&D test verification, have brought hidden dangers to product safety, market reputation and the industry's high-quality development. The formulation and introduction of this policy are intended to guide the industry to establish a development philosophy of safety first and rational innovation, promote the integration of safety assessment, reliability verification and environmental adaptability testing throughout the entire product design and R&D process, and prevent and resolve product safety risks from the source. It is an important measure to coordinate innovative development and safety governance in the automotive industry. Enterprises across the industry must thoroughly implement the policy orientation and effectively fulfill their primary responsibility for product quality and safety. First, strictly uphold the safety bottom line, standardize innovative design, discard the irrational innovation model that emphasizes form over safety, and move safety assessment to the forefront of the entire product innovation process; second, improve the R&D test verification system, strengthen full-scenario test verification such as comprehensive vehicle reliability and adaptability to complex environments, and shore up shortcomings in R&D verification; third, remain true to the original aspiration of quality, ensure product safety and reliability through sufficient test verification, and achieve coordinated development of technological innovation and safety management. Next, CAAM will fully cooperate with the competent authorities in carrying out policy publicity, industry implementation and related work, lead the industry in standardized innovation, strict risk control, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement, continuously consolidate the foundation for the safe development of China's automotive industry, and promote the industry's high-quality and sustainable healthy development. This article is reprinted from Cailian Press. GMTEight editor: Chen Yufeng.