China News Service, March 29. According to the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the General Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation recently issued a notice on launching a special action on people’s livelihood measurement, deciding to organize a special action on people’s livelihood measurement across the country from March to December 2021. Continue to carry out special rectification of the measurement of glasses manufacturing and distribution sites, focus on the special rectification of electronic pricing scales, improve the measurement accuracy of fuel dispensers, gas dispensers, and charging piles, and promote the evaluation and replacement of smart meters.

  The notice mentions five main tasks:

——Continue to carry out the special rectification of the measurement of glasses manufacturing and distribution places

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Local market supervision departments should continue to consolidate the results of the special rectification in 2019 and 2020, and focus on tracking and supervising the implementation of the rectification of problems found in the special rectification in 2020.

Intensify the publicity of metrological laws and regulations, and use the method of "double random, one open" to check whether the glasses manufacturing place is equipped with corresponding measuring instruments as required, and whether the measuring instruments used for compulsory verification work are qualified for metrological verification, etc.

Severely crack down on the use of unqualified measuring instruments in the production of glasses to prevent secondary damage to the eyesight of young people.

—— Intensively carry out special rectification of electronic pricing scales.

On the basis of consolidating the results of special inspections on the measurement of bazaars in 2020, local market supervision departments should give full play to the role of market supervision departments in comprehensive law enforcement, and focus on checking whether electronic price calculation scales used for trade settlement in shopping malls, supermarkets and bazaars have been used for trade settlement. In the case of verification, unqualified verification or use exceeding the verification period, severely crack down on illegal behaviors such as lack of weight and measurement cheating.

——Improve the measurement accuracy of fuel dispensers, gas dispensers, and charging piles.

Focusing on the people's livelihood concerns of automobile consumption, the metering supervision and inspection of fuel dispensers and gas dispensers are implemented to ensure the accuracy of fuel and gas metering.

Local market supervision departments should strengthen the research on the measurement and supervision of electric vehicle charging piles, find out the basic situation of the electric vehicle charging piles in use in the region, explore the establishment of a new model of big data supervision, and improve the service capacity of measurement verification.

Where conditions permit, pilot tests can be carried out to carry out compulsory verification of electric vehicle charging piles.

——Promote the status evaluation and replacement of smart meters.

In the provinces within the scope of the State Grid Co., Ltd. and China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., gradually promote the replacement of "watt-hour meter expiry rotation" with "power meter status evaluation and replacement".

The local market supervision departments shall supervise and guide relevant enterprises to improve the state evaluation plan and actively accept supervision.

In actual work, sampling can be used to implement supervision and inspection on expired civilian smart meters.

Gradually promote online monitoring of smart electric energy meters, accurate research and judgment, status evaluation, and inaccurate replacement, and establish a mechanism of "enterprise self-control, user supervision, and government supervision".

——Promote integrity measurement and self-commitment actions.

The local market supervision departments should establish a trinity integrity measurement operation mechanism of "self-promise of the operators as the mainstay, the promotion of government departments as the supplement, and the supervision of all sectors of society" in accordance with the actual situation, and improve the construction of the integrity measurement system.

Promote operators to carry out self-commitment actions for integrity measurement in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Conduct for Integrity Measurement in the Commercial Service Industry, achieve self-discipline, self-management, and self-demonstration, and promote the formation of a good atmosphere of credit-oriented, honesty and trustworthiness, and self-discipline.