Ningbo has set standards for the application of “second-generation ID ca...

On April 15, Ningbo drafted and formulated the "Imported Food Traceability QR Code Application Specification" was officially implemented, which is the first local standard related to the application of "second-generation ID card" for imported food in China. Up to now, more than 91 million imported commodities have been transcoded and coded in the city, involving 441 kinds of imported commodities such as milk powder, wine, cosmetics, and maternal and child products.

GM2D is an internationally accepted two-dimensional code code, which is equivalent to the internationally accepted "second-generation ID card" for imported goods. At the end of 2020, the International Article Number Organization launched the "Global QR Code Migration Plan" to promote the transition from barcodes to QR codes. This has a profound impact on global commodity flows, international rule-making, and emerging business forms.

Ningbo is an important international port city in China. Since 2022, taking the opportunity of Zhejiang's construction of the world's first GM2D demonstration zone, Ningbo has focused on imported commodity trade, reconstructed the commodity coding system, and innovatively built a traceability management service system for the quality and safety of imported goods. Last year, on the basis of summarizing the technical achievements of the GM2D pilot, Ningbo drafted and formulated the "Application Specification for Imported Food Traceability QR Code", which provides technical rules for the application of QR codes in the imported food traceability system. Up to now, 36 imported commodity enterprises in the city have adopted this standard.

The standard sorts out the QR code application scenarios of general trade and cross-border trade (online shopping bonded stocking mode), establishes eight typical application scenarios of traceability codes for overseas production, domestic customs clearance, warehousing/bonded warehousing, market circulation, online trading, second-line customs clearance, logistics and transportation, and terminal consumption, and builds a traceability system for imported food.

According to He Jianhua, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Ningbo took the lead in applying digital technology to the whole process and information control of global commodity consumers, which is in line with the beneficial practice of digital empowerment of international trade. "The application of the traceability QR code for imported food has effectively solved the national problem of full-chain quality and safety supervision of imported food. On this basis, further refining the technical rules and forming standards for promotion and implementation have a good reference and demonstration role for other cities in China to strengthen the full-link supervision of imported food and promote trade facilitation. He Jianhua said.