King of Industry

  Chapter 624 It is not easy to understand foreign standards

  Mr. Mu's guess was correct. Not long after he went to work in the afternoon, Zhao Guoyang received a call from Director Du Hao of the Inherent Assets Management Bureau.

  After exchanging pleasantries, Director Du smiled and said, "Researcher Zhao, you should know about your joining our all-terrain vehicle standardization technical committee, right?"

  After listening to Director Du's question, Zhao Guoyang quickly responded: "Yes, Director Du, I got the news from Director Mu this morning."

  Du Hao heard the words and said: "That's good! Researcher Zhao, you should have a bottom line on this matter, right?"

"I heard what Li said in his old saying. It seems that he will basically not ask too much about the standard establishment this time, but he will give you full power to take charge. However, he has explained to us that when you go to the capital, you must first go find him..."

  After Director Du finished speaking, Zhao Guoyang clicked his tongue in frustration.

  Maybe because he knows himself too well, Mr. Li simply became the shopkeeper this time and let himself be in charge of drafting this standard.

  In the early 1990s, "all-terrain vehicles" were still very rare in China.

  Even if there is, it is only for foreign-related enterprises to enter and come back for fun, and will not be used for transportation.

   Therefore, the formulation of the "all-terrain vehicle" standard basically requires the all-terrain vehicle standardization technical committee to start from scratch.

   Of course, "all-terrain vehicles" now have two technical standards, the "American Standard" and the "European Standard" worldwide.

   If Huaxia wants to compile a set of standards by itself, many of them can refer to these two standards.

  However, Zhao Guoyang does not intend to simply copy the "American Standard" and "European Standard" "all-terrain vehicle" standards. He wants to compile a more detailed set that is more in line with Chinese or Asian industry standards.

  While thinking about the issue of "standard establishment" in his mind, Zhao Guoyang listened to Director Du's narration.

"Researcher Zhao, the first plenary meeting of our all-terrain vehicle standardization technical committee will be held in Beijing on July 10. According to Mr. Li, you'd better come a day or two in advance. He has some questions to discuss with you. Do some research..."

   "Okay, no problem, Director Du!" Zhao Guoyang immediately agreed upon hearing this.

  Seeing that Zhao Guoyang responded straightforwardly, Du Hao felt much more relaxed.

He said with a smile: "Researcher Zhao, there is still more than a week before the start of the meeting. You should prepare more these days. At that time, there may be one or two experts from the Planning Committee who will ask you some questions. In short, more Get ready!"

  Du Hao didn't speak very clearly, but Zhao Guoyang understood his meaning immediately.

  Obviously, the experts from the Planning Committee must be displeased with this brat as the "Deputy Editor-in-Chief".

  After all, many of the previous industry rules were formulated by the planning committee. This time they can only play supporting roles, and the other party will of course have some opinions.

  After thinking about this, Zhao Guoyang smiled and responded: "Director Du, don't worry, I know what to do!"

  Hearing what he said, Du Hao completely let go of his worries.

  During the last meeting in Beijing, Du Hao had already paid attention to Zhao Guoyang, a "special researcher", and knew a lot about him.

  In Du Hao's opinion, only in terms of mechanical attainments, this researcher Zhao is really qualified to be called "the industry leader".

  At the last meeting, his knowledge and understanding of "all-terrain vehicles" was much higher than that of these domestic experts and scholars.

  Du Hao believes that as long as this researcher Zhao is serious, the experts from the planning committee should not be able to embarrass him.

   Not to mention, behind this researcher Zhao, there is a super heavyweight Mr. Li.

  After the call with Director Du ended, Zhao Guoyang put down the phone, and his thoughts gradually turned to the two upcoming visits in August.

  When Zhao Guoyang came back from Czechoslovakia, he had a conversation with Mr. Li.

  Basically decided to take a delegation to the world's largest all-terrain vehicle market—the North American market for an investigation and visit in early August.

  In addition, in late August, there is a team visiting Africa from the "Ministry of Foreign Trade", which requires Zhao Guoyang to accompany it.

   Coupled with the upcoming trip to the capital in early July, Zhao Guoyang's own time was really compressed and very tight.

   "Xingtai International Foreign Trade Company" and "SMS Construction Machinery Group Company" probably don't have time to check.

   On the "Rongguang Machinery Factory" side, the strategy for building the "Fashionbeauty" brand has been finalized. On the factory side, just go to check the progress, and it won't waste too much time.

  However, Zhao Guoyang originally planned to design one or two more representative "jewelry". Judging by the current non-stop state, it is estimated that it will be delayed again.

   "I can't help it. I just hope that after I've been busy for a while, I have time to take care of my own affairs."

   Putting aside the boredom in his heart, Zhao Guoyang shook his head and said to himself.

  After feeling melancholy for a while, Zhao Guoyang opened the drawer, picked up a copy of "American Standards for All-Terrain Vehicles" and checked it out.

   This book was prepared by Zhao Guoyang after Suzanne decided to start the "All Terrain Vehicle" project.

   This book has been locked in the desk for a long time, and it finally sees the light of day again.

  Speaking of which, before Zhao Guoyang was reborn, he had also come into contact with the "all-terrain vehicle" product, but he didn't know much about it.

  However, in his era, the standards for "all-terrain vehicles" were becoming more and more perfect, which were much more detailed than the current European and American standards in the early 1990s.

  With some previous understanding, now look at this standard, many things become simpler.

  In the era before Zhao Guoyang's rebirth, Huaxia's all-terrain vehicles were mainly exported to the American and European markets.

   Occasionally, the products are shipped to some markets in Australia and Africa, and the other party generally uses the standards of these two markets for reference.

  So, in most cases, as long as you have a thorough understanding of the "American" and "European" standards in this industry, the barriers to domestic production of "all-terrain vehicles" basically do not exist.

  However, it is not easy to understand the standards of other countries in the United States and European countries.

  Before he was reborn, Zhao Guoyang knew a negative example.

  After European countries updated the standards for "all-terrain vehicles", the European Commission's non-food rapid warning system issued a consumer warning to a certain brand of electronic mini all-terrain vehicles produced in China.

The notifying country of this case is France, and the content of the notification is: because the driver's feet are easily caught by the rear wheels and pedals during use, there is a risk of injury; the width of the steering wheel is greater than that measured at the front wheel Width, does not comply with the EU Machinery Directive and related standards.

  Actually, one of the main reasons why this Chinese manufacturer made this mistake is that they did not update the European standards in time, and failed to notice a new content added by others.

  The final consequence is that all the vehicles produced by this manufacturer were notified and greeted, and the company suffered heavy losses.

  Of course, in this life after rebirth, even the European Union has not yet been established, and there is no domestic company qualified to produce "all-terrain vehicles", so naturally there will be no such accidents.

  However, this incident was enough to make Zhao Guoyang vigilant.

   What he is now responsible for is to formulate domestic standards, make them as perfect as possible and move closer to American and European standards.

  After all, most of the "all-terrain vehicles" produced in China in the future will definitely be sold to North America and Europe.

   In addition, Zhao Guoyang has another idea in mind, that is, he hopes that the standard he has formulated can become a model for non-European and North American countries.

   That is to say, in the future, as long as it goes out of the North American and European markets, all all-terrain vehicle standards will follow the domestic standard, which is the "Huaxia Standard".

   To achieve this, in addition to the self-developed set of standards, which is more detailed and practical than "European standards" and "American standards", the more important point is that it is easy to understand and easy to promote.

   In this regard, Europeans and Americans are actually very average.

   Like in the standard of "all-terrain vehicle", they have a lot of ambiguity.

  To give a simple example, the European standard requires that passenger handrails must be equipped in the column of (UTV) passenger protection; while the American standard does not specifically point out this item, it only says that protection is required.

   Then this brings up a question, is this kind of protection "hard" protection or "soft" protection? If there is no handrail, is it allowed to install a structure similar to a protective net?

   European standards, on some other items, have the same problem.

Under European standards, all-terrain vehicles (ATV) are divided into two classes: Class I is an ATV intended for use by only one operator and has no passengers, and Class II is intended for use by one operator, or one operator and one passenger ATVs.

  The basic requirements for the drivers of these two ATVs are very simple, that is, they are over 16 years old.

  But it does not impose restrictions and requirements on adult drivers.

  To give the simplest example, suppose an adult with Down syndrome has no problem with his IQ, but his body is very short, and it is difficult to touch the accelerator with his feet while sitting on an ATV.

  In this case, if someone else's driver has an accident, according to this standard, the manufacturer may lose all his underwear.

   How to avoid these problems and make his "China Standard" more perfect and more representative, this is what Zhao Guoyang needs to consider now.

   After carefully studying the document at hand for a while, Zhao Guoyang has almost got a general understanding of the current "American Standards for All-Terrain Vehicles".

  He had just put down the book and was about to pick up another copy of "European Standards for All-Terrain Vehicles" to watch, when the phone on the desk rang.

  (end of this chapter)