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China Quality Award & Promotion of Performance Excellence Model
China Quality Award (CQA) is the highest-level national honor in the quality field open to all types of organizations. It recognizes organizations that have achieved outstanding results in implementing performance excellence model, delivering strong quality performance, economic returns, and social value.
CAQ Quality Technology Award
To advance quality technology, strengthen overall quality management and innovation capabilities, and encourage the initiative and creativity of quality professionals, the China Association for Quality (CAQ) established the CAQ Quality Technology Award in 2005 (CQTA). The award recognizes organizations or individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of quality technology.
Quality Benchmarking
To elevate quality management across organizations and promote benchmarking against best practices, continuous improvement, and innovation upgrading, CAQ organizes the collection and exchange of Quality Benchmark best practices. The Quality Benchmark best practice refers to a demonstrative, referable, and replicable approach developed by an organization through the application of advanced and appropriate quality management methods and next-generation information technologies to comprehensively enhance development quality and efficiency.
Quality Control (QC) Circles
Since QC Circle activities were introduced into China in 1978, they have been sustained for 44 years, playing a significant role in improving employee capability and driving quality and efficiency improvement. QC Circles have become a widely participated, long-running, broad-coverage, high-impact grassroots quality movement with strong foundations and lasting vitality.
Trustworthy Group for Quality (TGQ) Development Program
The Trustworthy Group for Quality Development Program is a quality improvement and on-site enhancement initiative for grassroots groups within enterprises. It helps groups strengthen basic management, improve on-site operations, build capabilities, and enhance quality performance, becoming an important lever for quality improvement and efficiency gains.
Lean Field Management Assessment
The Lean Field Management Assessment is a capability-building and maturity diagnostic service for organizations. Guided by the principles of voluntary participation and value creation, and based on the Chinese national standard Criteria for Field Management Enterprise, it supports organizations in systematically improving on-site management and creating measurable management and business value.
National Quality Month
National Quality Month is an annual thematic campaign initiated and deployed by relevant Chinese government departments, with broad participation from society—especially enterprises. It aims to raise quality awareness and drive continuous quality improvement.
Customer Satisfied Project
The Customer Satisfied Project is a social quality program launched by CAQ and jointly promoted with relevant government departments and industry associations. It aims to guide enterprises to adopt a customer-centered business philosophy and a quality mindset measured by customer satisfaction, continuously improving the quality of products, projects, and services—winning the market through quality and strengthening competitiveness.
China Quality Lecture Series
Since 2016, CAQ has continuously delivered the China Quality Lecture Series, a public-interest program that invites influential quality and brand experts from China and abroad, as well as business leaders with an innovation-driven perspective, to serve as keynote speakers. Each session focuses on a specific theme, providing high-level insights and systematic instruction.
