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CHINA STANDARDS IN

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An interview with WEN Ku, Secretary-General, CCSA

Highlights: Congratulations on your
appointment to CCSA Secretary General.
Can you tell us about your career and
recent role in the Ministry of Industry and
Information (MII)?

WEN Ku: In the Ministry, I successively
served as the General-Director of
the Department of Science and
Technology and the General-Director
of the Department of Information and
Communication Development. During
my government career, I have watched
at close quarters the rapid development
of the ICT industry, which has brought
earth-shaking changes to productivity and
to people’s way of life. In this process,
standards have played a vital role.
CCSA was established in 2002. I served CCSA General Assembly 2021
as the Vice Chairman of the Board of
CCSA for a long time, witnessing and its role of promoting in-depth e-meetings to proceed efficiently.
being involved in the growth of the body cross-border cooperation. Also, for the recent elections of
as it played an important role in the The members briefed me on the the technical leadership, 3GPP has
development of China’s ICT industry. I am technical development trends affecting successfully developed an online voting
now honored to also serve as Secretary- the ICT industry and outlined their own system, to further minimize the impact
General of CCSA. standardization priorities. They put of not having face-to-face meetings.
While feeling honored by my new mission, forward constructive opinions about These are examples of measures that will
continue to be evolved post-epidemic, as
I also feel deeply the great responsibility CCSA’s work to strengthen international a positive legacy from the e-meeting era.
that comes with it. Strengthening cooperation, on the China standards The 3GPP Project Coordination Group
international exchanges and cooperation system and gave guidance on how we can (PCG) has now started the discussion on
is the principle that CCSA has always improve the quality and efficiency of our how to successfully restart 3GPP face-
adhered to. I would like to lead CCSA by standardization work. to-face meetings. CCSA believes that this
facilitating our full participation in 3GPP Highlights: What do you feel the legacy work is very necessary and will actively
activities and by helping our membership of the Covid 19 Pandemic will be, for the participate in and contribute to the
to better integrate into the international technical work of 3GPP and our working discussion.
standardization ecosystem. methods?
Highlights: What are the key standards WEN Ku: The epidemic has brought Looking ahead, the future evolution
of the 3GPP system will bring new
related topics or themes that come challenges to 3GPP, and the project challenges. In order to meet them face on
up in conversations with the CCSA has made great efforts to deal with the 3GPP’s existing principles of fairness and
membership? evolving situation. 3GPP has developed openness must remain at its foundation -
WEN Ku: Members are the foundation highly disciplined email and virtual while we study potential improvements,
of CCSA, so responding to their concerns meeting procedures, which are enabling particularly on meeting efficiency, to allow
is my key task. Since April this year I 3GPP e-meetings to take place across all us to meet the ever-increasing project
have visited several member companies, of the time-zones. needs. In terms of project setup, I believe
including ZTE, Huawei, Tencent, There are a couple of new features I one of the big challenges will be for us
Nokia Bell and Alibaba. Among these would pick out, to show how the groups to balance the development needs of a
communication and Internet companies have adapted. A New Working Methods variety of members, whether traditional
there are a variety of Chinese companies, (NWM) online document editing system telecommunications businesses, the
but we also have several sino-foreign joint was developed, which has helped vertical industries or the creators of future
ventures, which are helping CCSA to fulfil ‘new technologies’ as they seek to join us.
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