WAA and Informa Tech held the roundtable meeting themed creating a secure and sustainable home Wi-Fi network.
The first national standard for river ecological safety assessment, GB/T 43474-2023, was recently released,
SAMR released the Sharing Economy Standardization Development Report 2023.
The Research Center on Internationalization of Advanced Manufacturing Standards was announced to be established.
The international academic symposium of ISO/TC 312, Excellence in service, was held in Beijing on February 27.
The founding ceremony and the first plenary meeting of SAC/TC 605, Rock and soil mechanics, was held on February 26.
The 123rd meeting of ISO Council was held on February 20-22 in Switzerland.
The plenary meeting of SAC/TC 207, Environmental management, was held on February 2 in Beijing.
Eighteen ministries and commissions jointly issued the Working Plan on the Construction Project of Standards System for Basic Public Services recently.
The founding ceremony and the first plenary meeting of SAC/TC 604 was held on November 14 in Beijing.
CNIS released the Report on Evaluation Index of Digital Government Standardization Construction.
The 4-day training activity was hosted by the Capacity Building Center for National Technical Committees (Shenzhen) and SZTU.
The Standards Sub-forum of the Sixth Hongqiao International Economic Forum (HQF) was held in Shanghai on November 6.
The Standards Innovation Integration and Development Conference was held on November 7, in Suzhou city.
The 4th Smart Home Industry Development Forum was held in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.
Themed “quality evolution and cooperation in economic recovery”, the 5th China Quality Conference was held on September 1-3 in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
The 2023 National Textile and Clothing Standards Innovation Conference convened in Tai'an city, Shandong province on August 18-20
SAC/TC 591/WG 1 was officially set up during the Robot Standardization and Core Technology Sub-forum on August 18.
The Chinese delegation attended the 21st Northeast Asia Standards Cooperation Forum held during July 24-26 in Japan.
How ANSI meets challenges and leverages opportunities in an evolving standards landscape
On the 14th UN Chinese Language Day, the launching ceremony of 2023 International Chinese Language Day was held.
The inaugurating ceremony and first summit of the Open Compute Technology Committee were held on April 24 in Beijing.
The meeting on the national standards comparison and compliance action was held on March 3 in Foshan.
The annual national standardization work conference was held in Beijing on February 28, 2022.
EU harmonised standards improve safety of lifts, reduce costs and facilitate trade
CEN and CENELEC help build a safer, more sustainable and competitive Europe.
The final round of the 2nd National Standards Olympiad for College Students was held in hybrid forms on October 14, the 53rd World Standards Day.
The first standardized super-charging station came into operation in Ningde, Fujian province on October 17.
On October 18, IEC published IEC PAS 63441:2022, which is the first international specification in this field.
Shanghai's action plan for standardization development is designed to establish a standards system that serves its high-quality development.
Chongqing municipality released the opinions on implementing the Outline on December 20, 2021.
Hebei province will realize in-depth standardization development in all respects.
Jilin province released the development plan for standardization (2021-2025) on December 6, 2021.
Given that cities are made up of individual though interconnected systems that must be addressed holistically, the IEC set up its SyC for Smart Cities.
ISO/IEC 27014 defines cyber security governance as the "system by which an organization's information security systems are directed and controlled".
International Standardization Forum 2022 was convened on August 20 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
The 5th China Forum on Standardization of Management System was held on August 10-11 in Qingdao, Shandong province.
Ensuring the electrical compatibility between rolling stock and electric traction systems is crucial for organizing a railway network.
The newly revised mandatory national standard, GB 18030-2022 will come into effect on August 1, 2023.
A new Europe-wide drone project that tests how to safely integrate drones into urban airspaces has kicked off.
To stimulate consumption and prosper industries, the State Council emphasizes the potential of green and intelligent household appliances.
Analysts are predicting that EVs could achieve 33% of the global vehicle market by 2028 and over 50% by 2035.
2022 marks Standards Australia's 100th birthday.
Giant panda, with distinctive black and white coat, is adored by the world and regarded as the national treasure of China.
China has made historic achievements in ecological conservation and restoration over the past decade.
As one of the first countries to sign the Convention on Biological Diversity, China has always attached great importance to biodiversity conservation, achieving substantial progress on a distinctively Chinese path.
Political, business and social elites across the country gathered in Beijing in early March, discussing the key topics of social concerns.
The Two Sessions, the top political advisory body, were convened in Beijing from March 4 to March 11, 2022.
The meeting focused on the cooperation of APEC economies in the field of energy efficiency and conservation.
The 2022 High-quality Development Exchange Meeting, which is also the press conference on the "forerunners" of enterprise standards was held online on March 30.
With the advent of spring, we embraced the annual National Standardization Work Conference, which is most concerned by both domestic and international standardization communities. The conference was organized by Standardization Administration of China (SAC) to gather stakeholders from government agencies, associations and technical committees, report the work progress last year and deploy the national standardization work plan this year.
Tian Shihong, Vice Minister of SAMR and Administrator of SAC, delivered the work report, and announced the priorities of national standardization work in 2024, which is presented in the SPOTLIGHT column.
Another annual event took place in Brussels, Belgium in March, which is the 8th Cybersecurity Standardization Conference with the theme of “Fasting evolving landscape of EU legislation: challenges and opportunities for standardization”. It was hosted by ENISA (the EU Agency for Cybersecurity) and the European Standardization Organizations, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, attracting more than 1,700 participants from Europe and all over the world on site and online.
The conference provided a communication platform for all stakeholders to understand the new legislation better, and discuss the challenges in standardization, how to develop standards for cybersecurity, and how to encourage more enterprises to participate in the process. You can find more details in the SPECIAL REPORT column.
China and Europe have cooperated for many years, not only in the economic and trade areas but also in the standardization field, thanks to the Seconded European Standardization Expert in China (SESEC). The SESEC project has played a crucial role in facilitating the mutual understanding between China and Europe about standards and systems for more than a decade. We interviewed SESEC Director Dr. Betty Xu, who shared her story with standards and how she promoted the communication and cooperation between China and Europe in this area.
Read the March/April issue and find more interesting things in China and Europe!
CHINA SCENE 中国视窗
MIIT releases guidelines on standards system for carbon peak and neutrality in industrial sector
工信部:到2025年初步建立工业领域碳达峰碳中和标准体系
Advanced Manufacturing Standards Research Center set up in Beijing
先进制造标准国际化工作研讨会在北京召开
EXCHANGE & COOPERATION 国际交流与合作
Tian Shihong attends the 123rd ISO Council Meeting
田世宏参加国际标准化组织(ISO)第123届理事会会议
POLICIES & TACTICS 政策与策略
Standardization strategies in digital transformation: Challenges and opportunities for modern enterprises
数字化转型中的标准化策略:现代企业的挑战与机遇
Enlightenment of French General Technical Clauses on internationalization of Chinese standards
从法国通用技术条款看中国标准走出去
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 独家专访
Building a bridge for standardization communication between China and Europe to achieve win-win cooperation–Interview with Dr. Betty Xu, Director of the Seconded European Standardization Expert in China
搭建中欧标准化的沟通桥梁 增进了解 实现共赢——专访欧盟驻华标准化专家项目总监徐斌博士
SPOTLIGHT 聚光灯
National Standardization Work Conference held in Beijing
全国标准化工作会议在京召开
Selected keynote speeches
全国会代表发言
Priorities of national standardization work in 2024
2024年全国标准化工作要点
SPECIAL REPORT 特别报道
Cybersecurity Standardization Conference 2024 held in Belgium
2024年欧洲网络安全标准化会议在比利时召开
GLOBAL VISION 国际视野
New Chair of IEC/TC 88 blows wind of change
IEC风力发电系统技术委员会(IEC/TC 88)新任主席推动变革
6GSymposium Spring 2024
6G研讨会即将召开
RESEARCH & EXPLORATION 研究与探索
Analysis of Mongolia’s standardization development in 2021-2022: Focusing on fields and quantities of approved standards
2021-2022年蒙古标准化发展分析:基于获批标准涉及领域的统计
Enlightenment from e-commerce standardization in ISO/TC 321 for developing countries in Africa
ISO/TC 321电子商务标准化工作对非洲发展中国家的启示
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