CSA Signed Strategic Cooperation Agreement with 

China Certification Center for Quality Mark

China Solid State Lighting Alliance (hereinafter referred to as "CSA") and China Certification Center for Quality Mark (hereinafter referred to as "CQM") held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in Shanghai on September 1, 2013. Xie Ji, Deputy Director of the Environmental and Resources Division of State Development and Reform Commission, Zhou Mutang, Deputy Inspector of Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Wu Ling, CSA Secretary General, Yue Ruisheng, Secretary-General of International SSL Alliance, Yun Danping, Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province and other leaders attended ceremony. The signing ceremony was chaired by Li Jinmin, Executive Director of research and development of CSA. Li Tienan, General Manager of China Certification Center for Quality Mark and Ruan Jun, Deputy Secretary-General of the CSA signed the agreement.

CSA made active exploration and practice in standardization of solid-state lighting industry. CSA established China Solid State Lighting Alliance-Standardization Committee (CSAS) in September 2012 under the guidance of Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China and Ministry of Science and Technology. At the same time, they relied on CSA public technological research and development platform - the State Key Laboratory of Solid-state Lighting (SKL) for strong technical support. It was a combination of common investment, risk-sharing, benefit-sharing platform, achieving the role of enterprises as a main body in standards development, ensuring the seamless development and industrialization.

For now, CSAS had released 21 CSA standards, among which  LED Spotlight and LED Downlight specifications had been recognized as national standards, a total of 3 items, including road lighting specifications interface, lumen depreciation accelerating test and others had been included to NDRC and SAC's "100 Projects in Energy Efficiency and Standards Promoting". CSA was also leading one national standard project work, and participating in developing 2 national standards. CSA standards played an active role in promoting healthy and orderly development of emerging industries in China.

China Certification Center for Quality Mark (CQM) was one of China's earliest voluntary institutions who conducted product certification. It had a complete products certification and evaluation services in energy-saving, environmental protection, safety and health, climate change, resource comprehensive utilization system and so on, and was China's only international certification body for explosion - proof Electric Products certification services. The ELI certification (known as the Efficient Lighting Initiative) carried out by China Certification Center for Quality Mark was short for global certification for high efficiency lighting products, aimed at certification services for efficient lighting products worldwide, facilitating and promoting development and application of high efficiency lighting technologies. ELI started in 1999 with the World Bank (WB) - affiliated International Finance Corporation (IFC) responsible for the implementation. It had gained support from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and developed into one of the evaluation criteria for bulk procurement and access in more than 10 countries in Oceania, South America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa, including Australia, Brazil, Uruguay, Hungary, Indonesia, Viet Nam and South Africa.

In order to change the chaos and uneven products quality of solid-state lighting market, to commonly build the confidence built by government procurement and consumers' selection, and to support implementation of national related policy, CSA and CQM decided to carry out solid-state lighting products quality certification work on a voluntary basis utilizing both advantages and resources, to put CSA standards as an important foundation for developing LED/ELI certification in China, as to promote the development of semiconductor lighting industry further.