On November 13, 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued a notification to further optimize the type approval process for radio transmission equipment by compressing its procedural timelines.

The document stipulates the following:

l  The MIIT Radio Service Acceptance Center should control the acceptance review period within 5 working days.

l  During the acceptance review, the MIIT Radio Service Acceptance Center should generate type approval task assignments based on the application materials and complete the task assignment production within 2 working days after receiving the confirmed upload of test reports.

l  Upon receiving the acceptance notice, the applicant should provide test samples (including logistics time for sample delivery) within 15 working days.

l  Testing organizations, upon receiving test samples, should conduct debugging within 10 working days.

l  After completing the debugging, testing organizations should finish type approval technical testing within 10 working days and submit the test report.

l  Provincial-level radio management organizations undertaking type approval testing tasks should confirm the testing organization's test report within 3 working days.

This notification will be effective from January 1, 2024.