Bureau Veritas and China Association for Promoting UN Procurement Reach Strategic Cooperation and the Signing Ceremony is Held in Beijing

On July 9, 2021, the signing ceremony of the strategic cooperation between Bureau Veritas (hereinafter referred to as BV) and China Association for Promoting UN Procurement (hereinafter referred to as CAPUNP) was successfully held in Beijing. Guests from both parties attended the signing ceremony. Of CAPUNP, there are Wang Xunan, party branch secretary and executive vice president and secretary general, Wei Xue, deputy secretary general and director of strategic development department, and Qian Junyang, assistant secretary general; Of BV system, there are Zou Fengxian, general manager of BV system certification business group, Lily Zhang, director of government affairs and public relations of BV, Zheng Bin, manager of its certification division of northern region, Yu Changliang, sales manager of its certification division of northern region.

Mr. Wang Xunan, party branch secretary and executive vice president and secretary-general of CAPUNP, stated that: First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the leaders of BV for their support. The procurement of United Nations is an important component of international public procurement. The procurement amount of United Nations, the biggest international organization and the largest platform for economic and technical exchange globally, has exceeded $20 billion in global procurement in 2020. Chinese government has been actively building an open and transparent public procurement system and striving to integrate into the international public procurement market. 

Faced with such a huge and diversified market as United Nations procurement and international public procurement, Chinese enterprises have always been taking a relatively low share that sticks around 1-2% for a long time, which is against China's cost advantage, product advantage and service trade advantage. Therefore, it has an important implications for China to build a high-quality trade power by increasing the direct share of procurement and international influence of Chinese enterprises in the United Nations and international public procurement markets. Today, CAPUNP and BV signed the cooperation agreement to jointly launch the building of the international public procurement training system, which is an important initiative and a concrete practical matter to implement the instructions of the State Council and the Ministry of Commerce.

In the future, CAPUNP will cooperate with BV to help more "Chinese enterprises", "Chinese products" and "Chinese services" to join the rank of the United Nations and global public procurement!

Ms. Zou Fengxian, General Manager of System Certification Business Group of Bureau Veritas, said that: First of all, we welcome the arrival of CAPUNP members , and stated that: Founded in 1828, BV is one of the oldest and largest international certification and inspection groups around the world, which plays as a globally recognized service provider in testing, inspection, certification and technical consultation service. Bureau Veritas provides first-class professional services and innovative solutions to over 400,000 customers to help them improve their performance by ensuring that their products, facilities and processes comply with standards and regulations in the areas of quality, health, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility. 

Based on the principles of win-win cooperation, mutual benefit and strong alliance, Bureau Veritas and CNPUNP will give full play to BV's professional advantages, and both sides will help Chinese enterprises to cooperate in the form of having professional forums in aerospace, automotive and rail transit, agriculture and food safety, chemicals and petrochemicals, medical and health, carbon services, and other fields, carry out training and certification services, jointly discover business opportunities, land major projects and solidify international cooperation.

In the future, BV and CAPUNP will build the high-end service platform together between China, UN agencies and international organizations to assist Chinese enterprises, Chinese products and Chinese services to "going global"; Meanwhile, BV and CAPUNP will actively assist in the formulation of international standards such as China's UN vendor pool to promote the liberalization and facilitation of global trade and investment and contribute to building an open world economy!

About China Association for Promoting UN Procurement 

Founded in 2006, China Association for Promoting UN Procurement is a national association of independent legal entity, which is approved by the State Council and registered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The purpose of the work is to promote the active participation of Chinese enterprises in United Nations procurement, to help Chinese enterprises use the global network of the United Nations to open up diversified international markets, to strengthen our economic and technical cooperation with other countries, especially developing countries, and to participate in the international economic and technical cooperation and competition on a wider scale in a broader field and at a higher level.