General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) launched two nationwide product quality inspections during Dec 2015-Feb 2016 and April 2016-June 2016 respectively, which covered 9 sectors of home appliances including range hoods, residential space heaters, electric baking ovens and bake wares, electric-heated blankets, refrigerators, residential washers, storage water heaters, heat pump water heaters and residential solar water heaters, according to AQSIQ’s website.
Range hoods
The failure rate of inspected range hoods registered 1.7%, down by 6.6% from last inspection. The inspections covered 60 batches of products from 60 enterprises (representing 15% of the whole industry) in 5 provinces (or municipalities).
Residential space heaters
The failure rate of inspected residential space heaters registered 10%, up by 3.3% from last inspection. The inspections covered 90 batches of products from 90 enterprises (representing 13% of the whole industry) in 8 provinces (or municipalities).
Electric baking ovens and bake wares
The failure rate of inspected electric baking ovens and bake wares registered 10%, up by 6% from last inspection. The inspections covered 50 batches of products from 50 enterprises (representing 50% of the whole industry) in 3 provinces (or municipalities).
Electric-heated blankets
The failure rate of inspected electric-heated blankets registered 3.6%, up by 1.7% from last inspection. The inspections covered 55 batches of products from 55 enterprises (representing 20% of the whole industry) in 11 provinces (or municipalities).
Refrigerators
The failure rate of inspected refrigerators registered 12.2%, down by 1.1% from last inspection. The inspections covered 82 batches of products from 82 enterprises in 7 provinces (or municipalities).
Residential washers
The failure rate of inspected residential washers registered 14.6%, down by 4.3% from last inspection. The inspections covered 82 batches of products (spanning pulsator automatic washing machines, drum washing machines and twin tub washing machines) from 82 enterprises in 11 provinces (or municipalities).
Storage water heaters
The failure rate of inspected storage water heaters registered 20%, down by 12% from last inspection. The inspections covered 60 batches of products from 60 enterprises in 9 provinces (or municipalities).
Heat pump water heaters
The failure rate of inspected heat pump water heaters registered 12.2%. The inspections covered 49 batches of products from 49 enterprises in 7 provinces (or municipalities). This marks the first time heat pump water heaters to be included in AQSIQ’s nationwide product quality inspections.
Residential solar water heaters
The failure rate of inspected residential solar water heaters registered 8.3%, same level as last inspection. The inspections covered 120 batches of products (including compact ones and separated ones) from 116 enterprises in 13 provinces (or municipalities).
Click following links to view full details on AQSIQ’s website:
http://cpzljds.aqsiq.gov.cn/cpzlccxx/gzdt/201603/t20160315_462832.htm
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/xxgk_13386/jlgg_12538/ccgg/2016/201608/t20160805_471939.htm