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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping in the capital Riyadh in December 2022. (AFP)
  • The program aims to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries and contribute to ensuring the quality and safety of goods
  • It also aims to establish frameworks for joint cooperation in several areas, most notably the exchange of information and research studies

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) and the Chinese Standardization Administration (SAC) renewed the technical cooperation program in the field of standardization activities, on the sidelines of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia.

The program aims to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries, contribute to ensuring the quality and safety of goods, limit the entry of counterfeit, shoddy and adulterated goods and products to the Kingdom’s markets, contribute to overcoming technical difficulties and obstacles to trade between the two countries, support and facilitate trade exchange.

The program aims to establish frameworks for joint cooperation in several areas, most notably the exchange of information and research studies in various fields of standardization, and to enhance coordination and mutual support in related international and bilateral activities, in addition to transferring knowledge and building technical capacities.

This program comes within the framework of the general agreement for economic and commercial cooperation signed between the two countries.