Verified against primary sources as of 21 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
China: 4 verified country-layer records — legal permit (2), mandatory scheme (2). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 4
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
National accreditation
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
Legal permit
How this jurisdiction is structured
CNAS is China's national accreditation body
The China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), established 31 March 2006, is designated by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) under China's Regulation on Certification and Accreditation. CNAS accredits certification bodies, laboratories, inspection bodies and validation/verification bodies, operating per ISO/IEC 17011.
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CNAS is a Global ACI Full Member across 11 scopes
CNAS is a Global ACI MRA signatory Full Member, with 11 recognised scopes and their own recognition dates — testing/calibration since 2000, management-systems certification since 1998, product certification since 2008, inspection since 2012, and validation/verification since 2020/2025.
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CNCA is not an independent regulator — it is folded into SAMR
CNCA (国家认证认可监督管理委员会) is not described as an independent body: per its own page, its functions were folded into SAMR in China's 2018 institutional reform, and the CNCA name is retained only as an external signboard ("对外保留牌子"). Two SAMR departments carry out the work; CNCA's head is a SAMR vice-chair. CNCA must never be described as a regulator separate from SAMR.
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Employer's general duty — Work Safety Law
The Work Safety Law (安全生产法), enacted 2002, most recently amended 2021, requires every "production/business operating unit" to build a full-staff work-safety responsibility system (Art. 4), names the unit's top person-in-charge as the "first responsible person" for work safety (Art. 5), and requires mandatory safety education and training for all employees (Art. 28). The Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) enforces it.
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Incentive and support programs
One program is verified and active as of 2026-08-21 — the 15% tax rate itself is a direct statutory quote; the eligibility conditions below come from a page last updated 2021 and should be re-checked before relying on them.
High and New Technology Enterprise (HNTE) status
- Funder
- State Taxation Administration, under Enterprise Income Tax Law Art. 28
- What it provides
- A reduced 15% corporate income tax rate for enterprises determined ("认定") to be High and New Technology Enterprises.
- Eligibility
- Registered for at least 1 year; R&D/technical staff at least 10% of headcount; high-tech product/service revenue at least 60% of total revenue in the past year; no major safety, quality or serious environmental violation in the preceding year.
Not yet confirmed: Source page last updated 2021-08-10 — re-verify current conditions before relying on this.
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Trade & market access
24 agreements
| Agreement | Parties | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| APTA - China's accession | APTA members | In force 2002-01-01 | |
| ASEAN-China | ASEAN | In force 2005-01-01 | services entry into force 2007-07-01 |
| Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) | Multiple | In force 1976-06-17 | services entry into force 2013-09-17 |
| Australia-China | Australia | In force 2015-12-20 | |
| Chile-China | Chile | In force 2006-10-01 | services entry into force 2010-08-01 |
| China-Belarus | Belarus | In force 2026-01-01 | |
| China-Cambodia | Cambodia | In force 2022-01-01 | |
| China-Congo | Congo | In force 2026-04-01 | |
| China-Costa Rica | Costa Rica | In force 2011-08-01 | |
| China-Ecuador | Ecuador | In force 2024-05-01 | |
| China-Georgia | Georgia | In force 2018-01-01 | |
| China-Hong Kong | Hong Kong | In force 2003-06-29 | |
| China-South Korea | South Korea | In force 2015-12-20 | |
| China-Macao | Macao | In force 2003-10-17 | |
| China-Maldives | Maldives | In force 2025-01-01 | |
| China-Mauritius | Mauritius | In force 2021-01-01 | |
| China-New Zealand | New Zealand | In force 2008-10-01 | |
| China-Nicaragua | Nicaragua | In force 2024-01-01 | |
| China-Serbia | Serbia | In force 2024-07-01 | |
| China-Singapore | Singapore | In force 2009-01-01 | |
| Iceland-China | Iceland | In force 2014-07-01 | |
| Pakistan-China | Pakistan | In force 2007-07-01 | services entry into force 2009-10-10 |
| Peru-China | Peru | In force 2010-03-01 | |
| Switzerland-China | Switzerland | In force 2014-07-01 | cross-verified — matches seco.admin.ch's own date |
WTO Regional Trade Agreements Information System (RTAIS) · retrieved