{"id":47,"date":"2026-11-12T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/chinas-draft-skills-assessment-rules-seek-to-strengthen-trust-in-certificates\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:39:39","slug":"chinas-draft-skills-assessment-rules-seek-to-strengthen-trust-in-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/chinas-draft-skills-assessment-rules-seek-to-strengthen-trust-in-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s draft skills assessment rules seek to strengthen trust in certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has released draft regulations on skills assessment for public comment, according to a report published by <em>The Paper<\/em> on November 12, 2026. The proposal is <strong>not yet in force<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry told <em>The Paper<\/em> that the draft would be China\u2019s first administrative regulation devoted to skills assessment. It would bring vocational qualification assessments, vocational skill-level recognition and assessments of specific occupational abilities under a common regulatory framework.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal follows a 2019 decision to phase out certain government-administered vocational qualifications and move toward socially administered skill-level recognition. Cheng Xiezhong, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, said the shift expanded the range of assessment providers but also exposed inconsistent standards and concerns about untrustworthy certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Under the draft, assessments would be guided by a system of national occupational standards, industry and enterprise assessment specifications, and rules for assessing specific occupational abilities. Fan Wei, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, said this approach would place greater emphasis on assessment standards and quality, rather than certificates alone.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed safeguards include separating vocational qualification assessments from related training and requiring assessment personnel to recuse themselves where necessary. The draft would also prohibit issuing certificates under the names of specified assessment programmes without the required filing, as well as forging, altering or trading certificates. Depending on the violation, proposed consequences include fines, suspension of assessment activities and revocation of licences.<\/p>\n<p>For organisations conducting vocational skill-level recognition, the draft sets requirements for facilities, equipment, qualified personnel and management systems. <em>The Paper<\/em> reports that such organisations would have to file with the relevant provincial-level or higher human resources authority within 10 days of starting assessment activities. Workers could request a review of an assessment result, and organisations or individuals could report suspected violations.<\/p>\n<p>These measures remain proposals while the draft is open for comment. Their effect on certificate quality would depend on the final rules and their enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.thepaper.cn\/newsDetail_forward_34458519\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Original report: The Paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has released draft regulations on skills assessment for public comment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockogmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}