Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation has released the new version of the Implementation Rules for the Production License of Electrical Wire and Cable Products, which will come into effect on April 1, 2026. In this revision of the rules, the product quality safety traceability system has been clearly included as a core assessment item in the production license verification. It not only sets a passing line but also establishes a clear line of unacceptable standards, becoming the key threshold for electrical wire and cable enterprises to apply for and renew the production license.
1. For a long time, there have been problems such as ambiguous certificate information, chaotic coding, and lack of anti-counterfeiting measures in the market, allowing counterfeit and substandard products to take advantage. This has brought three major risks to the industry: The assessment of the product quality safety traceability system in the new rules adopts a strict grading standard, directly linking the construction and implementation of the traceability system of enterprises to the license qualifications: Failure to establish a traceability system: Directly judged as not meeting the requirements of the new rules. If an enterprise fails to establish a product quality safety traceability system, during the on-site verification or post-event on-site review of the production license, it will be directly determined as "non-compliant" and unable to pass the qualification review. For products such as electrical wire and cable that concern people's livelihood and industrial safety, the full-chain traceability from raw material procurement, production process parameters, inspection and testing data to the final product's outflow is the core defense line for ensuring product quality and preventing safety hazards. Enterprises without a traceability system will lose their legal production qualifications.
2. Why does the traceability system become a "must-answer question"? The unique characteristics of the wire and cable industry determine that the core requirement of the cable certificate is not only a "passport" for product manufacturing but also an important basis for consumers' rights protection and regulatory traceability. For a long time, there have been problems such as ambiguous certificate information, chaotic coding, and lack of anti-counterfeiting measures in the market, which have allowed counterfeit products to take advantage and brought three major risks to the industry.
3. How can enterprises meet the standards? The core points of building a full-chain traceability system The cable certificate is not only a "passport" for product manufacturing but also an important basis for consumers' rights protection and regulatory traceability. For wire and cable enterprises, to meet the traceability requirements of the new regulations, they need to work on both "system construction" and "implementation" simultaneously, and build a traceability system that is implementable and verifiable: The traceability system documents need to be improved. Enterprises must formulate clear quality and safety traceability management systems, clearly define the traceability scope (covering raw materials, production process, inspection, factory release, after-sales, etc.), the content of traceability information (such as raw material batch numbers, wire twisting ratio, insulation extrusion temperature, finished product inspection report numbers, customer flow, etc.), the responsibilities of the departments and personnel, as well as the retention period and retrieval process of traceability data, to ensure that the system is operational.
4. Impact of the New Regulations on Industries: Accelerates Industry Restructuring and Promotes High-Quality Development The cable certificate is not only the "passport" for product manufacturing but also an important basis for consumers' rights protection and regulatory traceability. For a long time, there have been problems such as ambiguous certificate information, chaotic coding, and lack of anti-counterfeiting measures in the market, allowing counterfeit products to take advantage and causing three major risks for the industry.
The new regulations will strongly link quality traceability with production licenses, which will have a profound impact on the wire and cable industry: On the one hand, it will force small and medium-sized enterprises to make up for their traceability shortcomings, eliminate a batch of backward production capacity lacking in systems and management, and accelerate industry restructuring; on the other hand, it will guide leading enterprises to deepen the construction of traceability systems, based on the foundation of full-chain traceability, to enhance product quality control capabilities and brand credibility. For enterprises, the quality traceability system is no longer an "addition point" but a "basic point" for survival and development. Only by truly integrating the traceability system into the entire production and operation process can one not only meet the compliance requirements of administrative licensing but also build a solid product quality and safety defense line, and stand firm in the wave of high-quality development of the industry.
