2022 Conferences of CASWSS Group Standardization Technical Committee on Work Promotion and Group Standardization Technical Review Successfully Convened

The site of 2022 Conference on Work Promotion of CASWSS Group Standardization Technical Committee

From 20^th to 21^st July, 2022, China Association of Social Welfare and Senior Service (hereinafter referred to as CASWSS) Group Standardization Technical Committee held its 2022 Conferences on Work Promotion and Group Standardization Technical Review in an online and offline integrated way.

At the Conference on Work Promotion, Feng Xiaoli, President of CASWSS and Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee presented and made the 2021 annual work review and the 2022 work arrangements. Bai Dianyi, Director of National Standardization: Principle and Method Standardization Technical Committee and Former Vice President of China National Institute of Standardization, and Wang Yiyi, Director of Standardization Theory and Strategy Branch of China National Institute of Standardization attended the conference and gave lectures and interpreted policies including the Outline on National Standardization Development, Opinions on Promoting Regulated and High-Quality Development of Group Standards, and Basics for Standardization, etc. Hou Fei, Vice Researcher of Standardization of Modern Services Branch of China National Institute of Standardization shared the latest updates in international and domestic standardization building on elderly services. The conference deliberated and approved 22 new specialists, including Han Hua, into Group Standardization Technical Committee. Nearly 90 specialists from R&D Institutes nationwide, vocational schools and colleges as well as senior care organizations participated both online and offline. Li Jianjun, Vice President of CASWSS and Deputy Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee presided over the 2021 annual work review and the 2022 work arrangements. Han Hua, Secretary General of CASWSS and Deputy Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee presided over the policy interpretation and the lectures.

Feng Xiaoli, Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee made the 2021 annual work review and the 2022 work arrangements.

At the conference, Director Feng Xiaoli reviewed the Committee’s work achievements made in 2021. She pointed out that in 2021, CASWSS earnestly implemented the work arrangements in response to population ageing in China’s 14^th five-year development plan and the long-range goals for 2035, fostered CASWSS’s innovative development approach during the 14^th five-year plan, and the CASWSS’s 2021 Annual Work Guideline, listing Group Standardization Building as one of the top priorities. Over the past year, Group Standardization Technical Committee has followed the principle of ‘Serving the Overall Interests, Focusing on the Needs, Pooling Wisdom and Injecting Impetus’, tackled the challenges brought by the pandemic and successfully completed the annual work tasks. Firstly, the Committee has strengthened top-level design and set clear priorities. Based on the industry needs to improve services and management, the Committee has focused on new service technologies and management modes, organizing and promoting the development of relevant group standards. Secondly, the Committee has improved related regulations and mechanisms to strengthen self-construction. The Committee has revised the Measures for the Management of Group Standards of CASWSS, promoting regulated management of Group Standardization Technical Committee and improving the work process of the Secretariat of the Committee, thus ensuring the quality of R&D on group standards. Thirdly, the Committee has focused on the needs of the industry, innovatively developed and established 13 group standards on vocational skills in the fields of elderly care, elderly rehabilitation services, elderly health management services and elderly TCM services. Fourthly, the Committee has enhanced the transformation and application of group standards, with pilot projects such as 1+X Elderly Care Vocational Skill Technical Grade achieving excellent results. The Committee has served the overall development of CASWSS and gained its experiences in group standard mechanism innovation and in supporting the industry to expand service means, fully playing its role as the technical support.

Director Feng Xiaoli made comprehensive arrangements on the work of group standard building in 2022. She emphasized that at the beginning of 2022, China established the Plan on the Development of National Elderly Care Undertakings and the Elderly Services System in the 14^th Five-Year Plan Period (hereinafter referred to as the Plan). CASWSS should, as one of the state-level associations in the elderly service sector, earnestly implement the arrangements by the Plan on promoting elderly service system building, and take group standardization building as an important means to thoroughly learn the principles in the Guideline for National Standardization Development, and the Opinions on Promoting the Regulated and High-Quality Development of Group Standards, etc. We should focus on new technologies, new business forms and new development needs to make meticulous plans for group standardization building. Firstly, we should strengthen policy and theory learning and maintain the right direction of standardization development; secondly, we should expand our work approaches and advance the development and review of group standards; thirdly, we should promote relevant standards and conduct pilot projects for application work; fourthly, we should continue to innovate work mechanisms and strengthen capacity building on standardization; fifthly, we should improve work quality to demonstrate high-level standardization work. Focusing on the five key priorities above, we should list phased work tasks, work progresses and implementation measures, so as to ensure that responsibilities are shouldered by responsible ones and work is done as scheduled, with the annual plan being progressed in an effective manner.

In her speech, Director Feng Xiaoli expressed her sincere expectations to all the specialists and committee members: the Group Standardization Technical Committee has been established for four years, during which it has fully played the role of a professional technical institution for standardization work, and taken on the heavy tasks of development, review, promotion and application of group standards. The Committee has led the scientific development of the industry in the technical field, pooled wisdom for the cultivation of a professional standardization team, demonstrated fine examples of practices of various standards, and laid technical foundations for cultivating talents with professional skills. Faced with the new opportunities and challenges in the development of the elderly service industry during the 14^th five-year plan, we should follow the guidance of relevant national policies, take roots at the grassroots level, provide services according to people’s needs, pool wisdom and strengths and joint hands to march forward. We should also uphold a scientific and rigorous work attitude and an earnest and meticulous work style to conduct the group standardization work with high efficiency, so as to make positive contributions to the high-quality development of the industry.  

Li Jianjun, Vice President of CASWSS and Deputy Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee and Han Hua, Secretary General of CASWSS and Deputy Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee presided over the conferences.

Researcher Bai Dianyi gave lessons and Jiang Xiaoling, Secretary General of Group Standardization Technical Committee declared the name list of newly-added specialists.

The conference has invited renowned domestic specialists to give lessons and share experiences. First of all, Bai Dianyi, Director of National Standardization: Principle and Method Standardization Technical Committee and Former Vice President of China National Institute of Standardization interpreted Basics for Standardization, and taught professional lectures on six aspects of standardization background knowledge and materials, basic concepts of standardization, category systems of standardization documents, the positioning of standards in human institutional systems, concept systems of standardization and principles of standardization. Through the lecture, the participants gained profound knowledge of the concepts of standards and standardization, and the significance of standardization work in promoting trade, improving efficiency and facilitating communication, etc. 

Wang Yiyi, Director of Standardization Theory and Strategy Branch of China National Institute of Standardization interpreted relevant policies and Hou Fei, Vice Researcher of Standardization of Modern Services Branch of China National Institute of Standardization shared international and domestic experiences.

Xiao Chenglong, Vice Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee, and core Committee members Wei Bing and Wei Yimin attended the conference.

Wang Yiyi, Director of Standardization Theory and Strategy Branch of China National Institute of Standardization thoroughly interpreted the Outline on National Standardization Development  (hereinafter referred to as the Outline) from three key aspects: the background and process of fostering the Outline, the core principles of its contents, and the implementation measures. He also interpreted the newly established Opinions on Promoting Regulated and High-Quality Development of Group Standards. All the participants thoroughly learned the fundamental role of standardization building in advancing the high-quality development of elderly services. Hou Fei, Vice Researcher of Standardization of Modern Services Branch of China National Institute of Standardization shared international and domestic experiences in standards development and review, vividly presenting the current situation, development trend and vision of international and domestic elderly service standardization building.

At the end of the conference, Jiang Xiaoling, Secretary General of Group Standardization Technical Committee declared the Decision on Adding Specialist Members to CASWSS Group Standardization Technical Committee, adding 22 comrades including Han Hua, Zhou Yanmin and Feng Liwei as new specialist members of CASWSS Group Standardization Technical Committee. The participating specialists extended warm congratulations to the newly added specialists.

After concluding the conference, the participated representatives shared their experiences emotionally. Xiong Chenggang, a core member of Group Standardization Technical Committee and Director of Management Committee of Jianghan Elder Apartment of Wuhan City said that: we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to President Feng Xiaoli and previous and present leaders of CASWSS. They made arduous efforts to make fine leadership conduct and in the past 12 years, led the CASWSS staff team in fully promoting the development of China's social welfare and senior service course. They set a sound framework and prop up solid foundations, trained vocational talents and fostered relevant standards, helped their colleagues and planned a bright future, gaining stunning fruits through their efforts. This will surely leave its rewarding chapter in the development history of China’s social welfare and senior service course. Other participating specialists also said that: this year’s work promotion conference has stuck to a top-level perspective and set clear targets as well as effective measures, which greatly encouraged us. Through the lectures, we gained thorough knowledge and are now deeply aware of the significance of standardization work in elderly services, and are fully confident of the standardization construction and development of the elderly service industry in the future. Next, we will enhance solidarity and cooperation on the platform of CASWSS to make concrete deeds and make our due contributions to the innovative development of China’s social welfare and senior service course in the new era.

On 21^st July, Group Standardization Technical Committee timely implemented the arrangements made for the work promotion conference and convened the group standardization technical review conference in an online and offline integrated way. The conference reviewed technically 8 vocational skill grade standards.

Director Feng Xiaoli introduced the leading role of the 8 group standards submitted in vocational capability building in the field of elderly service, and stressed the elderly service industry’s urgent needs for elderly care services, elderly rehabilitation services, elderly health management services and elderly TCM care service techniques. She expected that the specialists would prioritize the professional, scientific and pragmatic features of the four services, and ensure the technical quality of relevant training and tests.

Technical review specialists attended the conference offline.

Principles of relevant standards making compilation reports of Vocational Technical Grade Standards of Elderly Care, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Elderly Health Management Services, Elderly TCM Care Services.

The draftsmen of 8 group standards including Wei Yimin, Gao Feng, Meng Fanli and Chen Yan made reports on the drafts of Part two: Training Requirements, Part 3: Comprehensive Evaluation Requirements and the appendix of relevant equipment staffing for Elderly Care Vocational Technical Grade Standard, Elderly Rehabilitation Services Vocational Technical Grade Standard, Elderly Health Management Services Vocational Technical Grade Standard and Elderly TCM Services Vocational Technical Grade Standard. 17 specialists including Li Jianjun, Yang Degang, Luo Yimin, Gao Shuping, Liu Zeyang, Lu Xian, Luan Chun, Liu Ruxiu, Xiao Changjiang, Chen Dingsheng, Liu Chunping, Zhang Huijuan, Xiao Chenglong, Wang Lijun, Xu Jian and Tan Jiangyi reviewed the 8 standards in an online-offline integrated way. The technical review conference went on in a passionate and orderly manner, and after heated discussions, deliberations, Q&A and review sessions, the specialists formed their technical review opinions on the 8 group standards.

In the end, Han Hua, Deputy Director of Group Standardization Technical Committee made a conclusion speech for the Committee’s technical review conference. She thought that the 8 group standards deliberated at the conference conformed to the national service needs to promote high-quality development of elderly services during the 14^th five-year plan period, and they also conformed to the technical requirements of group standards review. After the conference, the Secretariat of Group Standardization Technical Committee would further revise and improve the relevant standards according to the specialists’ suggestions, foster drafts for approval and organize establishment work.