The meeting on the standards internationalization work of advanced manufacturing was recently held in Beijing, with the aim to thoroughly implement the spirits for institutional opening up of the 20th CPC National Congress, and accelerate improving the internationalization of standards in the field of advanced manufacturing.

The Research Center on Internationalization of Advanced Manufacturing Standards was announced to be established at the meeting, where Zhang Xiaogang, former ISO President, and Zhang Gang, Vice Chair of National Industrial Foundation Expert Committee and former Counselor of the State Council, made keynote reports.

Led by China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology Group (CAM), the research center will implement the requirements on improving the opening-up level of standards in the National Standardization Development Outline. The research center will keep up with the international development trends of standards worldwide, strengthen practical cooperation with relevant institutions at home and abroad, and contribute to improving the global standards system and the development and promotion of international standards.

The research center will respond to the demands of the international development of standards for advanced manufacturing, focus on the analysis of domestic and foreign standardization front trends, international standards pre-research and building of test and verification capacity, international standardization exchanges and cooperation, and the construction of international standardization service system. It will provide support for promoting the institutional opening up of Chinese standards system and strengthening the cultivation of international standardization talents.