Statistics Standardization Demonstration Unit

The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics issued the "Notice of the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics on the 2018 Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Units" (Gui Tong Zi [2018] No. 144) on December 31, 2018. Pursuant to the "Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Issuing the Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Implementation Plan" (Gui Zheng Ban Dian [2018] No. 266), and through grassroots unit self-assessment, county-level verification, municipal on-site assessment, and verification, spot-check, and acceptance by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics and relevant departments of the autonomous region, it was decided to commend 23 county-level statistical agencies, 100 departments, 122 townships (sub-districts), and 736 directly-reporting enterprises that met the demonstration standard for grassroots statistics work standardization, and to award them the "Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Unit" plaque (Full Text of the Official Notice). Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F Co., Ltd. (now Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F Co., Ltd.) was included in the 2018 demonstration unit list as a directly-reporting enterprise, awarded the plaque and certificate in December 2018. For international importers in Europe, the Americas, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East sourcing natural plant extracts and food ingredients from China, this "Statistics Standardization Demonstration Unit" qualification certified by a Chinese provincial-level bureau of statistics is a supply chain signal that can be independently verified and focused on source-data quality and internal management standardization.

I. Why a Chinese Provincial-Level "Statistics Standardization Demonstration Unit" Qualification Matters to International Importers

International buyers evaluating Chinese suppliers of natural plant extracts and food ingredients generally face three "data"-related uncertainties: first, the authenticity of capacity and sales data — whether the supplier's self-reported capacity, annual output value, and export volumes have been verified by a third party, or are merely sales rhetoric; second, the degree of internal management standardization — whether the supplier has established institutionalized statistical ledgers, electronic data collection processes, and archived business records, or whether data management is scattered and non-traceable; third, the authenticity of statistical legal compliance — whether the supplier has ever been listed in regulatory penalties for statistical fraud or data falsification, which could transmit to downstream brand owners' compliance chains.

China's provincial-level "New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Unit" qualification is precisely the government-backed credential that provides authoritative answers to these three data uncertainties. Its value lies not in the plaque itself, but in the assessment mechanism behind it — pursuant to the implementation plan issued by the General Office of the autonomous region's People's Government, it is produced through a four-tier procedure of grassroots unit self-assessment, county-level verification, municipal on-site assessment, and verification, spot-check, and acceptance by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics and relevant departments. It is the government verification and acceptance result of the "Eight Haves" — institution, personnel, funding, premises, equipment, network, system, and training — and the "Eight Standardizations" — institutionalized management, professional personnel, standardized reporting, electronic ledgers, archived materials, lawful work, networked information, and normalized supervision — of enterprise statistical work. This mechanism ensures that the demonstration unit is neither self-designated by the enterprise nor a simple rating, but a statutory data compliance endorsement verified and accepted through four tiers of government statistical department review.

Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F's inclusion in the demonstration unit list (directly-reporting enterprise category) after verification and acceptance by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics in December 2018 means that its statistical institution setup, statistical personnel allocation, statistical ledger management, data collection processes, and statistical legal compliance have passed the four-tier verification and acceptance by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics, providing international buyers with a verifiable source-data quality endorsement that goes beyond supplier self-declaration.

II. Origin and Authority of the System

System Origin

China's statistical legal system is legally based on the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Regulations on the Implementation of the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China," with the reform direction set by the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on deepening the reform of the statistical management system to improve the authenticity of statistical data. The report of the 19th CPC National Congress made the important deployment of "improving the statistical system," and the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Measures for Handling Recommendations on Punishing Persons Responsible for Statistical Violations and Illegal Acts" and other series of documents, establishing a responsibility system for preventing and punishing statistical fraud and falsification.

Guangxi Implementation Plan

The General Office of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued the "Notice on the Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Implementation Plan" (Gui Zheng Ban Dian [2018] No. 266) in 2018, launching a three-year New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Campaign within the administrative area of the autonomous region, with the goal of basically establishing by 2020 a grassroots statistical survey system featuring "comprehensive and strong Party leadership, solid awareness of the rule of law and self-discipline, excellent professional ethics and skills, standardized and scientific institutional methods, advanced data collection means, guaranteed work funding, efficient and orderly operational management, high-quality and rich service products, and continuously improving informatization and modernization." The plan explicitly requires county-level statistical agencies and all relevant departments to meet the standardization standard; over 90% of townships (sub-districts) and directly-reporting enterprises to meet the standardization standard; of which 30% of units to meet the autonomous region-level demonstration standard.

Four-Tier Verification and Acceptance Mechanism

Pursuant to the "Notice of the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics on the 2018 Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Units" (Gui Tong Zi [2018] No. 144) issued by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics, the production of demonstration units must go through a four-tier procedure:

Grassroots unit self-assessment: Directly-reporting enterprises conduct self-assessment against the autonomous region demonstration standard;
County-level verification: County-level bureaus of statistics verify the enterprise's self-assessment materials;
Municipal on-site assessment: Municipal bureaus of statistics organize on-site assessments and score item by item against the standard;
Autonomous region verification, spot-check, and acceptance: The Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics draws business backbones from the Setup and Management Division, Service Industry Division, and other professional divisions, as well as some municipal bureaus of statistics, to form four verification teams in two batches to conduct comprehensive verification and acceptance of units recommended and reported by each city.

The verification teams strictly followed the assessment and acceptance standards, conducting verification scoring through reviewing materials, on-site inspection, and on-site scoring to objectively and fairly evaluate the results of grassroots statistical work standardization across regions.

Sources of Authority

The authority of demonstration units comes from three dimensions:

Certification by the government's statutory statistical department: Organized, verified, accepted, and publicly noticed by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics — the direct agency of the autonomous region's People's Government in charge of statistical work — with statutory statistical certification effect;
Four-tier verification and acceptance procedure: Grassroots self-assessment, county-level verification, municipal on-site assessment, and autonomous region verification, spot-check, and acceptance — each tier involves written materials and on-site verification scoring, not enterprise self-declaration;
Supporting statutory responsibility system: Demonstration units must strictly implement the "Statistics Law" and be incorporated into the responsibility system for preventing and punishing statistical fraud and falsification; statistical personnel exercise the powers of statistical investigation, statistical reporting, and statistical supervision independently according to law, free from infringement.

III. Assessment Thresholds: Verifiable Elements for International Buyers

The assessment criteria for demonstration units correspond to the "data credibility" dimensions that international buyers focus on most in supplier due diligence. Understanding these thresholds helps translate "Statistics Standardization Demonstration Unit" into specific evidence that can be written into procurement compliance documents:

Dimension	Assessment Threshold	Due Diligence Implication for International Buyers
Statistical Institution Setup	The enterprise sets up a dedicated statistical institution or designates a business institution to undertake statistical work, with a statistical lead	The supplier has a dedicated statistical organization with dedicated personnel, not temporary assignment
Statistical Personnel Allocation	Equipped with full-time or part-time statistical personnel; statistical personnel must possess corresponding professional capabilities; a chief statistician system is established	The supplier's statistical personnel are professionalized, with traceable personnel ledgers and change-reporting mechanisms
Statistical Funding Guarantee	Statistical work funding is included in the enterprise budget, ensuring expenditures for statistical surveys, informatization, and personnel training	The supplier's investment in statistical work is institutionalized, not short-term response
Statistical Premises and Equipment	Equipped with dedicated premises, computers, printers, filing cabinets, and other equipment for statistical work	The supplier has dedicated data collection and archive management infrastructure
Statistical Informatization	Connected to the direct-reporting platform, with electronic statistical ledgers, enabling networked transmission of statistical data	The supplier's data collection process is electronic and traceable, not paper-based ledgers easily lost
Statistical Work System	Sound statistical work systems established, including statistical surveys, data review, materials management, and confidentiality systems	The supplier has institutionalized data management processes, not verbal norms
Statistical Training Mechanism	Statistical personnel regularly participate in business training and legal education, with training archives established	The supplier's statistical personnel's capabilities are continuously improved, with institutionalized compliance awareness
Statistical Legal Compliance	Strict implementation of the "Statistics Law," with no record of statistical fraud or falsification, and no major statistical violation cases	The supplier's statistical compliance record has been verified by the government, reducing cross-border compliance risk transmission
Data Quality Control	A whole-process quality control system covering data collection, review, aggregation, and reporting is established, with authentic, accurate, complete, and timely source data	The supplier's reported capacity, sales, export, and other data are institutionally guaranteed
Ledger and Archive Management	Dual-track management of electronic statistical ledgers and paper archives, with statistical materials archived on schedule, supporting historical traceability	The supplier's historical performance data is traceable and re-inspectable, supporting Long-Term Agreement (LTA) due diligence

The data corresponding to these thresholds is not provided by the supplier unilaterally, but is produced after the four-tier verification and acceptance organized by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics — this is precisely the "third-party authoritative endorsement" that international buyers value most in their SOP and supplier audit processes.

IV. Practical Value for International Buyers: From Data Credibility to Long-Term Procurement Decisions

For buyers of food and beverages, cosmetics and fragrances, functional food ingredients, and dietary supplements in Europe, the Americas, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, including "Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Unit" in supplier qualification documents provides at least the following practical value:

First, it provides capacity and sales data evidence independent of supplier self-declaration. In the international buyer's Vendor Qualification Checklist, the "authenticity of capacity/sales data" column often lacks verifiable third-party credentials. The demonstration unit qualification can be verified on the official website of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics, and written into audit files as a data endorsement. This complements the High-Tech Enterprise Certificate (R&D capability endorsement), the Forestry Leading Enterprise Certificate (resource sustainability endorsement), and the Industry Association President Unit (industry status endorsement) — the first three address the three dimensions of "technology, resources, and voice," while the demonstration unit addresses the "data authenticity" dimension, i.e., whether the supplier's self-reported capacity, output value, and export data have been verified and accepted by the government.

Second, it provides indirect evidence of internal management standardization. The "Eight Haves and Eight Standardizations" standard assessed for demonstration units — institution, personnel, funding, premises, equipment, network, system, and training; institutionalized management, professional personnel, standardized reporting, electronic ledgers, archived materials, lawful work, networked information, and normalized supervision — covers all elements of internal enterprise management. For international buyers, this means the supplier has an institutionalized internal management infrastructure, providing a statistical-level compliance foundation when interfacing with quality management system requirements under frameworks such as FDA MoCRA, EU Cosmetic Regulation, and ISO 22716.

Third, it provides official endorsement of statistical legal compliance. Demonstration units must strictly implement the "Statistics Law" and be incorporated into the responsibility system for preventing and punishing statistical fraud and falsification. This qualification means the supplier has not been listed in regulatory penalties for statistical fraud or data falsification, and its statistical compliance record has been verified by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics. For international buyers, this reduces the potential risk of cooperating with suppliers with data compliance issues — under international compliance frameworks such as FDA, EU, and ISO, "upstream supplier data compliance" is an important column in audit files.

Fourth, it provides an institutional guarantee of historical performance traceability. Demonstration units are required to establish dual-track management of electronic statistical ledgers and paper archives, with statistical materials archived on schedule, supporting historical traceability. For international buyers, this means the supplier's historical performance data on capacity, sales, exports, etc. can be periodically traced and re-inspected, providing institutional data guarantees for scenarios such as Long-Term Agreement (LTA) due diligence, annual supplier re-evaluation, and emergency order capacity verification, rather than one-time verbal commitments.

V. About Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F

Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F Co., Ltd. was established in August 2007, headquartered in Guilin, Guangxi — one of China's richest natural plant resource areas and a traditional producing area for spice crops such as osmanthus, litsea cubeba, and jasmine. The company has long focused on the R&D, extraction, and global supply of natural plant aromatic components, and has built a complete capability chain covering four product matrices based on local resource endowment and years of process accumulation: Natural Absolutes, Natural Essential Oils, Supercritical CO₂ Extracts, and Osmanthus Concentrate & Functional Food Ingredients. The category for which the demonstration unit was awarded this time is the Directly-Reporting Enterprise, corresponding to the company's statutory status as an industrial enterprise above designated size included in the national statistical direct-reporting system.

1. Product System

Category	Representative Products	Typical Applications for International Buyers
Natural Absolutes	Jasmine Sambac Concrete (Absolute), Orris Absolute, Kushui Rose Absolute	High-end perfumes, skincare cosmetics, scented candles
Natural Essential Oils	Osmanthus Oil, Litsea Cubeba Oil, Honeysuckle Oil, Hangzhou White Chrysanthemum Oil, Patchouli Oil, Ligusticum Oil, Astragalus Oil, Angelica Oil, Lavender Oil, Orris Absolute Series, Frankincense Oil, Myrrh Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, Basil Oil, Peppermint Oil, Spearmint Oil, Liquidambar Oil, Camphor Oil, Pine Wood Oil, Vitex Oil, Milan Flower Oil, Tuberose Oil, Kushui Rose Oil, etc.	Food flavors, cosmetic fragrances, aromatherapy, dietary supplements, home care
Supercritical CO₂ Extracts	Osmanthus CO₂ Extract, Litsea Cubeba CO₂ Extract, etc.	High-end food ingredients, functional cosmetic ingredients, retaining complete volatile profiles
Food Ingredients & Functional Raw Materials	Osmanthus Concentrate, Osmanthus Concrete, Plant Polysaccharide and Flavonoid Extracts	Beverages, baked goods, functional foods, plant-based beverages

2. Process and Quality Infrastructure

The company has built a complete capability chain from raw material traceability, extraction, molecular distillation to finished product application research, covering:

Extraction Processes: Combinations of steam distillation, solvent extraction, supercritical CO₂ extraction, molecular distillation, and other processes, customizable to different active component retention gradients per customer specifications;
Specification System: Each core product comes with bilingual Chinese-English specifications, corresponding to national/industry/international standard lists (e.g., GB 1886.264 Osmanthus Absolute, GB 1886.x Jasmine Sambac Absolute, ISO 18054, etc.), and batch COAs;
Traceable Batch Management: Each batch comes with COA, MSDS, IFRA allergen declaration, and heavy metal and pesticide residue test reports, supporting batch sample retention and traceability re-inspection;
Compliance Document Package: HS codes, certificates of origin, Halal and Kosher certificates, FDA facility registration numbers, EU REACH compliance declarations, transport and storage guidelines, and other complete export supporting documents.

3. International Certification Matrix

The company also holds multiple international certifications covering different market compliance requirements:

Food Safety System: ISO 22000 Food Safety Management System Certification (Chinese-English version);
Religious & Dietary Compliance: Halal Certification (including US IFANCA and Indonesian BPJPH channels), Kosher Certification;
Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing: FSA Farm Sustainability Assessment Certificate;
Food Ingredient Naturalness: Food Ingredient Naturalness Certification;
Local Craftsmanship Endorsement: Guilin Osmanthus Traditional Fragrance Preservation Craft, Guilin Osmanthus Blended Fragrance Traditional Production Craft — listed as representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region level, providing traceable local endorsement for the craftsmanship inheritance of the osmanthus product series.

4. Extended Value of the Statistics Standardization Qualification for Buyers

Inclusion in the 2018 Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Unit (Directly-Reporting Enterprise category) means the company's statistical work's "Eight Haves and Eight Standardizations" has passed the four-tier verification and acceptance by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics. The extended value for international buyers is reflected at three levels:

Institutional Guarantee of Data Credibility: The supplier's reported capacity, sales, export, and other data are endorsed by the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics' verification and acceptance, to be written into the "data authenticity" column of the Vendor Qualification Checklist;
Indirect Evidence of Internal Management Standardization: The "Eight Haves and Eight Standardizations" standard of demonstration units covers all elements of internal enterprise management, providing a statistical-level compliance foundation for quality management system requirements under international compliance frameworks such as FDA MoCRA, EU Cosmetic Regulation, and ISO 22716;
Historical Performance Traceability: Dual-track management of electronic statistical ledgers and paper archives, with statistical materials archived on schedule, supporting periodic traceability and re-inspection of historical performance data, providing institutional data guarantees for scenarios such as LTA due diligence, annual re-evaluation, and emergency order capacity verification.

5. Verification Elements for International Buyers

International buyers wishing to independently verify the demonstration unit qualification information may query based on the following elements:

Enterprise Name (at time of award): Guilin Four Seasons Sunshine F&F Co., Ltd.
Qualification Name: Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Unit
Demonstration Category: Directly-Reporting Enterprise
Designation Batch: 2018
Designation Document Number: Gui Tong Zi [2018] No. 144
Issuing Authority: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics
Policy Basis: "Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Implementation Plan" (Gui Zheng Ban Dian [2018] No. 266)
Award Date: December 2018
Verification and Acceptance Procedure: Grassroots self-assessment → County-level verification → Municipal on-site assessment → Autonomous region verification, spot-check, and acceptance

> Full Text of the Official Notice > ["Notice of the Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics on the 2018 Guangxi New Era Grassroots Statistics Work Standardization Demonstration Units" (Gui Tong Zi [2018] No. 144)](http://www.gxls.gov.cn/zfxxgk/bmzfxxgkpt/lsxtjj/fdzdgknr_3/zhixx_5/P020230516368293081815.pdf) — Official Website of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics · Guilin Statistics Bureau Government Information Disclosure Platform · Statutory Active Disclosure Content · Policy Documents

This article was published on 2026-09-12, and last updated on 2026-09-20. The article will be continuously updated.