IEC releases a standard on environmental testing
The impact of climatic environmental tests on the performance of related products has attracted much attention.
Key Words:IEC
China's overall conversion rate of intl standards reaches 86
The overall conversion rate of international standards into China’s national standards has reached 86% by the end of September 2025.
Key Words:standards,SAMR
WASIC empowers development of global automobile industry
the World Automobile Standards and Innovation Conference (WASIC) was held on October 27-29 in Shenzhen.
Key Words:automobile
First national standard for food digital factory released
GB/T 46511-2025, General technical requirements for food digital factory, was released recently.
Key Words:digital
ISO/TC 8/SC 27 holds the first plenary meeting in Shanghai
It will provide sound support for the sustainable development of global supply chains.
Key Words:ISO
Chinese expert elected IFAN Vice-President
Xia Weijia (Vivian) was elected Vice-President of IFAN.
Key Words:CAS
National University Student Standardization Olympiad held
The final of the National University Student Standardization Olympiad 2025 was successfully held in Hangzhou City.
Key Words:Olympiad,youth
SAMR releases the first national standard on livable cities
GB/T 46391-2025, Sustainable cities and communities—General requirements for livable cities, officially came into effect on October 5.
Key Words:standard
ISO releases technical specification on child care articles
ISO/TS 24929-2:2025, Child care articles—General safety—Part 2: Mechanical hazards, was officially published.
Key Words:ISO
ISO sets up working group on non-metallic pipes
The new working group ISO/TC 67/SC 2/WG 32, Non-metallic pipes, was approved for establishment by ISO recently.
Key Words:ISO
Downloads of national standards exceed 10 million times
SAMR had steadily promoted the full-text disclosure and free download of over 30,000 national standards that do not adopt international standards since the beginning of this year. In the first half of 2025, downloads exceeded 10 million times.
Key Words:standard
SAC/TC 611 on platform economy governance established
SAC/TC 611 is established to leverage the systematic supporting role of standardization in advancing the modernization of China's systems and capacity for governance.
Key Words:economy
Standards and metrology empower the World Games 2025
Technological R&D and application, the innovation of standard materials, and the capacity building of measurement standard instruments provided guarantees for the safe and stable operation as well as the fair competition of the Games.
Key Words:Standards,and,metrology,empowe
Standard on credit commitment of business entities released
SAMR recently released the national standard GB/T 46277-2025.
Key Words:standard
ASEAN-Oriented Standardization Cooperation Forum held
Themed "innovative cooperation on AI standardization: empowering the building of China-ASEAN community with a shared future", the ASEAN-Oriented Standardization Cooperation Forum was convened in Nanning, Guangxi.
Key Words:ASEAN
Chinese delegation wins prizes at Intl Standards Olympiad
The 20th International Standards Olympiad was held in South Korea in mid August.
Key Words:Chinese,delegation,wins,prizes
ISO releases two standards for space systems
Recently, ISO 21740:2025 and ISO 16615:2025 were officially published.
Key Words:space,ISO
CNIS experts win ISO Excellence Award
ISO awarded CNIS experts for their contributions to ISO 25556:2025.
Key Words:ISO
IEC releases 3 documents for electrical energy storage
Power storage is a key supporting technology that ensures the safe and stable operation of the power grid.
Key Words:IEC
Sino-Germany standardization cooperation starts a new chapte
The unveiling ceremony of Sino-Germany Standardization Cooperation Innovation Center in Frankfurt was held on June 23.
Key Words:German
Standardization supports integrated regional development
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui have accessed certificates from Shanghai for over 2.64 million times, while Shanghai has accessed certificates from the three provinces for more than 3.97 million times.
Key Words:economy
SAMR releases 4 national standards for exhibition services
SAMR issued four national standards in the exhibition services sector.
Key Words:standard,economy
China strives for carbon neutrality through energy labels
CNIS held the Academic Meeting on 20th Anniversary of China Energy Label in Beijing on June 27.
Key Words:energy
WG on intelligent system ergonomics design is launched
The working group on design and evaluation of intelligent system ergonomics, under SAC/TC 7, Ergonomics , was officially established in Qingdao city, Shandong province on June 18. The launching ceremony was jointly organized by the Sub-institute of Fu
Key Words:SAC,launches,intelligent,syste
CNIS and GS1 China boost China-Africa cooperation
The fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo was held in Changsha, Hunan province.
Key Words:Africa
Two ISO standards of refrigerant compressors released
Two international standards, ISO 18501:2025 and ISO 18483:2025, were released.
Key Words:ISO
China issues national standard on high performance computing
The first national standard on high performance computing (HPC), GB/T 45400-2025, was issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Key Words:cloud,computing
BRICS Economic and Trade Forum convened in Beijing
The BRICS Economic and Trade Forum was convened on April 18 in Beijing, which was themed “Standards cooperation facilitates trade development, BRICS cooperation empowers the Global South”.
Key Words:BRICS,trade,sustainable
China revises measures for adopting international standards
The State Administration for Market Regulation revised and issued the Measures for the Adoption of International Standards recently.
Key Words:standard
The 3rd Annual Meeting of Carbon Label held in Beijing
The meeting focused on the evolution process of the carbon label standards system in the past decade, and released the carbon label standards system coordinating infrastructure and industry, which marks China's solution to global low-carbon transforma
Key Words:carbon
ISO releases two standards for tourism
ISO 9468:2025 and ISO 25639-1:2025 were released recently.
Key Words:ISO
Chinese expert re-elected Chair of APEC EGEEC
Liu Meng, Associate Researcher of the Branch of Resource and Environment Research, China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), was re-elected as the Chair of the APEC Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EGEEC).
Key Words:APEC,CNIS
SAC/TC 260 convenes Standards Week in Suzhou
The Standards Week activity was held on April 15-17 in Suzhou city, East China’s Jiangsu province.
Key Words:cybersecurity
AdHoc meeting held for an ISO standard project on DPP
The ISO/UNECE joint working group for information exchange of supply chain aligned to UN/CEFACT semantics (ISO/TC 154/JWG 9) held the AdHoc Meeting of ISO/PWI 25534-1.
Key Words:supply chain
Discover the CEN and CENELEC Work Programme 2025!
CEN and CENELEC are excited to announce that the 2025 Work Programme has been published.
Key Words:CEN
IEC standard for AAL robots assists lives of the elderly
IEC 63310:2025, Functional performance criteria for AAL robots used in connected home environment, was officially issued.
Key Words:IEC
Responsible cinema: best practices spread
The AFNOR Spec standard offers production companies concrete actions for deploying a film, audiovisual or advertising project.
Key Words:AFNOR
SAMR kicks off pilot project of standards management reform
SAMR published the Notice on Deepening the Pilot Project of Local Standards Management System Reform on January 27.
Key Words:management
ISO releases standard for traditional Chinese medicine
The international standard ISO 19851:2025, Traditional Chinese medicine—Cinnamomum cassia branch, was published recently.
Key Words:ISO
16 sectoral standards for ecology and environment released
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment released China’s first batch of 16 sectoral standards for environment benchmarks.
Key Words:environment
ISO/TC 347/AHG 4 convenes 5th meeting
ISO/TC 347/AHG 4, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), held the 5th meeting on February 7.
Key Words:ISO
CNIS expert wins ISO Excellence Award
Liu Meng, Associate Researcher form CNIS, was awarded the ISO Excellence Award on February 19.
Key Words:ISO
Chinese experts attend the 62nd session of the IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) convened the 62nd session on February 24-28 in Hangzhou.
Key Words:climate,UN
Supporting foreign-owned enterprises in standards making
Relevant authorities always positively support the participation of foreign-owned enterprises in standards development and revision.
Key Words:enterprise
Annual meeting of SAC/SWG 29 on digital standards held
The annual meeting of SAC/SWG 29 and the standard technical review meeting were held in Beijing.
Key Words:digital
GCC Special Interest Group set up in Beijing
The GCC established the Special Interest Group on Energy Saving and Decarbonization on December 20, 2024 in Beijing.
Key Words:carbon,energy,CNIS
The 3rd Education Standardization Development Forum held
The Implementation Plan of Selection and Building of Pilot Colleges for SOP Standardization Talent Cultivation was released on December 28, 2024.
Key Words:education
Intl standards promote sustainable development of tourism
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism held a press conference to give a comprehensive introduction to ISO 14785:2024.
Key Words:tourism,ISO
CMA publishes report on meteorological standardization
China Meteorological Administration issued the Annual Report on Meteorological Standardization Development (2024) on December 27, 2024.
Key Words:meteorology
Action plan on establishing standards system released
The Action Plan on Further Strengthening the Construction of Standards and Metrology System for Carbon Peak and Neutrality (2024-2025) was issued.
Key Words:carbon
