Chinese standard 2035

2019-2020

The question of standardization arose during an attack on China from the USA again in 2019-20 when became obvious that China is tried to be driven out of global technology markets. And as the majority of proprietary standards in the field of technologies are created by the foreign companies, China to keep the development, is forced to buy many licenses abroad, and is the world's second payer of licensing fees in the world. The idea is simple: at the expense of the new plan "Chinese standard 2035" to break this situation and to make China the net receiver, but not the payer of licensing fees. And as a result it will lead at least to "doubling" of technology standards in the world^[1].

This plan should add other known initiative "2025 is made in China" (it is accepted in 2017), which had to display the People's Republic of China in world leaders in the field of hi-tech innovations. In fact "The Chinese standard 2035" and "2025 is made in China" are two parts of the same broad strategy. Before setting global standards, China should become self-sufficient in development and production of hi-tech products, such as semiconductors and chips — and in these areas China still substantially depends on foreign^[2].

Why standardization is important? Around the world the high tech, as well as in general industries, has standards which define how technologies work and the functional compatibility with devices is provided worldwide. A good example is the telecommunication industry. In networks of fifth generation (5G) it is necessary for operation of many devices that devices understood each other. Technical standards are created thanks to cooperation between industry bodies, experts and the companies.

These technical specifications are accepted and integrated into what becomes then the standard of the industry. Following to standards allows to increase efficiency of deployment of networks and to ensure their functioning irrespective of a location.

The largest American and European technology companies, such as Qualcomm and Ericsson, often set standards in different industries, but in the last several years China plays more and more active role.

In March in Beijing there was a document entitled as "The main points of national standardization effort in 2020" from where it is possible to gain an impression about what can enter a final version of the Chinese plan for standards.

Some of points of the March plan offer improvement of internal standards in different industries, from agriculture before production. In one of sections of the document need of creation "the systems of standards in information technology field and biotechnologies of new generation" is emphasized.

Within this section the main attention is paid to development of standards for Internet of Things, cloud computing, Big Data, a 5G and the artificial intelligence (AI). All this is considered as the most important technologies of the future which can form the basis of critical infrastructure in the world.

In the document need of "participation in development of international standards" is also emphasized and also the fact that China should make more proposals on international standards. According to experts, this step represents a double game — to strengthen standards at the national level and to stimulate economy and also to have an impact at the global level.

Influence of the second economy of the world on a global technology landscape grows already long time. 5G networks are a striking example. The Chinese firm Huawei, one of the leading players in the market of network equipment of a 5G, is also a key player in establishment of standards. It has the greatest number of the patents connected with a 5G and is ahead of the closest European competitors of Nokia and Ericsson, according to IPlytics company which is engaged in the analysis of intellectual property.

It is one of the reasons for which the USA and other countries express concern about Huawei. They consider that if it is authorized to Huawei to participate in deployment of 5G networks, then the data access, passing through devices of the Chinese company, can receive Beijing. The founder of Huawei Ren Zhengfei repeatedly said that Huawei will never transfer data on clients to the Chinese government.

Work on development of standards, certainly, is actively conducted also in Washington. The American-Chinese commission on the overview of economy and security should carry out on Monday listenings under the name "The Chinese model. Beijing advances alternative global regulations and standards". It had to be postponed because of a coronavirus.

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