Challenges of Standardizing in China’s Automotive Industry: A Field Report

The interview presents the general tasks of the VDA QMC China in building an information and knowledge infrastructure on the topic of quality management in the automotive sector in China. Based on own experiences, developments in quality management in the Chinese automotive sector are traced, and the role of VDA standards in China is highlighted. Single steps of regulation and standard setting by DPAC (SAMR) are described in detail using the example of recall management and the Sino-German Working Group under the leadership of the VDA QMC China. German expert knowledge is still very welcome in the automotive sector when designing new standards (GB and GB/T) in China. Particularly relevant at present is the future design of regulation in the areas of cybersecurity, OTA (software updates over-the-air), and autonomous driving. The VDA standards are also being adapted to the new digital challenges in the automotive industry, and the experiences of German car manufacturers in China are playing an increasingly important role.