Solar water heater urgently forced national standard

China has now become the world's largest producer and supplier of solar water heaters. However, the rapid development of the solar water heater industry also exposes a series of serious national safety standards. Consumers' safety and legitimate rights and interests are not effectively guaranteed, and the normative and benign development of the solar water heater industry has also been adversely affected. Recently, 22 consumer rights defending units in Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Nanjing jointly issued a "proposal letter" to AQSIQ and the National Standardization Administration. They called for the formulation and introduction of a series of solar water heaters to protect consumers' human health as quickly as possible. The mandatory national standards for personal and property safety.

The “Proposal Letter” specifically pointed out that due to the absence of compulsory national standards, there are hidden safety risks such as the lack of mandatory installation standards for solar water heaters. The national recommendation standards for solar water heaters amount to more than 30, but mandatory national standards concerning consumer safety are Blank. To this end, 22 consumer rights protection units stressed that it is extremely urgent to formulate and issue a national mandatory safety standard for solar water heaters.