China Creating its Own RFID Standard

Filed in archive EPC Standards on March 6, 2005

Is china building another wall, an RFID wall?

An article in InformationWeek (subscribe for free) reports that China is developing its own RFID standard for use within China, as this extract from the article indicates:

'The Chinese government and industries within China are working to develop RFID standards that are in line with specifications being used elsewhere in the world, representatives from the delegation told InformationWeek. "China will use EPCglobal and ISO standards, but with some modifications to satisfy special needs in China," said Qiang Bai, CTO at uniView Technologies.

China plans to participate in creating a global standard but will use its own intellectual property to build a royalty-free standard. The country wants to avoid a similar intellectual-property tax that was initiated on manufacturers building DVD players in China, a tax that resulted in DVDs built in China costing more than imports, delegation representatives said."