B[Severe crackdown on forced shopping and illegal online solicitation. Ministry of Culture and Tourism: Continue to rectify market order] On September 24, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan". At the press conference, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism introduced that we will work with relevant departments to continue to strengthen the joint force of tourism-related safety supervision, carry out regular risk investigation and management, and strengthen safety management and emergency response during key periods such as holidays, flood and summer seasons, as well as tourism-related transportation, fire protection, special equipment and other key areas to effectively protect the safety of tourists' lives and property. At the same time, we will continue to carry out in-depth special rectification of the order of the national tourism market and severely crack down on forced shopping and illegal online solicitation. Since the beginning of this year, the number of tourism complaints nationwide has dropped by 39.24% year-on-year. We will insist on asking the people for their needs and suggestions, open up channels for tourist evaluation and feedback, improve the tourism market credit system, carry out civilized tourism promotion and guidance, and create a safe, orderly, civilized and honest tourism consumption environment for tourists. B[Mandatory national standards for electric bicycle charging piles are officially released to regulate the safety technical indicators of supporting charging facilities for electric bicycles] On September 4, the mandatory national standard GB 47371-2026 "Safety Technical Specifications for Electric Bicycle Charging Piles" organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, jointly with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the National Energy Administration, and the National Fire and Rescue Bureau was officially released on March 31, 2026, and will be implemented on April 1, 2027. This standard regulates the design and production process of electric bicycle charging piles, filling the gap in the previous mandatory standards for electric bicycle charging piles. The standard applies to AC/DC charging piles that charge compliant electric bicycles and their batteries. It standardizes the safety technical indicators of electric bicycle charging piles from three dimensions: general requirements, safety protection functions, and special requirements for DC charging piles, and clarifies the corresponding test methods. Among them, in terms of general requirements, the standard regulates product labeling and instructions, fire and flame retardant performance, contact temperature rise limit, surge immunity, leakage protection, etc., and clarifies strict technical indicators;
In terms of safety protection functions, it is required that products will not be dangerous in case of misuse and failure, and charging piles must have seven protection functions including short-circuit protection, over-current protection, and input over-voltage protection, and be able to automatically cut off the output power when abnormal conditions occur. In terms of DC charging piles, products are required to use the same interface as GB 42296-2022 "Safety Technical Requirements for Chargers for Electric Bicycles" and support the two key functions of mutual recognition, collaboration and polarity identification to ensure charging safety.
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