[China Association of Automobile Manufacturers: Abandon the irrational innovation model that emphasizes form over safety Prioritize safety assessment into the entire product innovation process] On October 11, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments, drafted the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Innovative Design and R&D Test Verification of Automotive Products (Draft for Comments)" on October 10, focusing on rectifying unreasonable innovative designs, improving the R&D test verification management system, and consolidating the main responsibilities of enterprises for product safety by improving automotive product access management requirements. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers firmly supports this move and has issued an initiative to the entire industry to comprehensively improve the safety level of China's automobile products. At present, China's automobile industry is accelerating its electrification and intelligent transformation, product innovation iterations continue to accelerate, and various new technologies and new functions are widely used. At the same time, some problems such as one-sided pursuit of innovative gimmicks, irrational designs that ignore the bottom line of safety, and insufficient R&D testing and verification have brought hidden dangers to product safety, market reputation, and high-quality development of the industry. The formulation and introduction of this policy aims to guide the industry to establish a development concept of safety first and rational innovation, promote safety assessment, reliability verification, and environmental adaptability testing throughout the entire product design and development process, and prevent and resolve product safety risks from the source. It is an important measure to coordinate the innovative development and safety governance of the automotive industry. Enterprises across the industry must deeply implement policy guidance and effectively fulfill their main responsibilities for product quality and safety. First, strictly adhere to the bottom line of safety, standardize innovative design, abandon the irrational innovation model that emphasizes form over safety, and put safety assessment into the entire product innovation process; The second is to improve the R&D test verification system, strengthen the full-scenario test verification of vehicle comprehensive reliability, complex environmental adaptability, etc., and make up for the shortcomings of R&D verification; the third is to adhere to the original intention of quality, ensure product safety and reliability with sufficient testing and verification, and achieve coordinated development of technological innovation and safety management and control. In the next step, the China Automobile Association will fully cooperate with the competent authorities in carrying out policy publicity and implementation, industry implementation and other related work, leading the industry to standardize and innovate, strictly control risks, improve quality and efficiency, continue to consolidate the foundation for the safe development of China's automobile industry, and promote high-quality, sustainable and healthy development of the industry.