Reflecting on the past year can help us figure out the wins and losses and improve our performance this year.

China Standardization Press (CSP) organized a campaign at the end of 2024 to vote the 10 big events, 10 outstanding figures and 10 standards that catch great attention of the year. The vote was taken on the WeChat account of CSP, receiving about 46,500 page views. You can find the results in the SPOTLIGHT column.

CSP also interviewed several experts during the International Standardization Youth Star Competition held in Beijing in November 2024. Anna Gallet, ISO’s project manager on education, and Rachel Miller Prada, ISO’s manager on capacity building, shared their insights into how to attract young people to participate in standardization work and their comments on the competition. Liu Wei, Director of Global Quality, Standards and Environmental Affairs of Lenovo, talked about the role of standardization in technological innovation and product upgrade of Lenovo, and what kind of standardization experts are needed in a tech company. Chen Guangju, Former Vice President of Beijing Normal University shared his opinions about the advantages of the competition and measures to cultivate standardization experts.

The SPECIAL REPORT column introduces a recently published international standard, ISO 14785:2024, Tourism and related services—Tourist information services—Requirements and recommendations, whose development was led by Chinese experts. The article details the development process and highlights of the revised version, China’s efforts in the tourism industry, and progresses made so far. The standard is of great significance for promoting the sustainable development of global tourism.

The RESEARCH & EXPLORATION column presents three academic papers, which focus on the research into problems and countermeasures of technical barriers to trade in the photovoltaic industry, how standardization promotes the development of intelligent manufacturing, and the overview of China’s standardization development.

2024 was a year of solid achievements. On this basis, we believe that the standardization community can make more impressive achievements in 2025!