Interview with ISO President Dr. Sung Hwan Cho
ISO Standards: Powering a safer, smarter and more sustainable world
Key Words:ISO,interview
Interview with Mr. Vimal Mahendru, IEC Vice-President
China and IEC can cooperate very well for the future
Key Words:IEC,interview
Interview with IEC President Mr. Jo Cops
Building on collaboration to create a smart future
Key Words:IEC,interview
ISO releases ISO/TS 19384:2026 on service excellence
ISO/TS 19384:2026, Service excellence—Guidance for the application of digital approaches to achieve service excellence, was released recently.
Key Words:service
Three Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated standards published
Three local standards were collaboratively issued by the administrations for market regulation in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
Key Words:Beijing,local
New national standard for ambient air quality released
The new mandatory national standard GB 3095-2026 was released.
Key Words:air,environment
Chinese strontium optical clocks help keep the world on time
The optical lattice clock based on strontium atoms, NIM-Sr1, developed by the National Institute of Metrology, China (NIM), has been approved to calibrate the International Atomic Time (TAI).
Key Words:metrology
Three regional working groups for AI established
SAC/TC 28/SC 42 on artificial intelligence has established regional working groups in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Key Words:AI
China releases first standards system for humanoid robots
The 2026 version of the standards system for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence was released.
Key Words:robot,AI
Interview with Tom Heilandt
Confidence and continuous learning: Key for Chinese students to engage in international standardization work—Interview with Tom Heilandt, Secretary-General of the International Federation for Sustainability and Justice, former Secretary of the Codex
Key Words:WHO,education
Interview with Rachel Miller Prada from ISO
Diversity, youth and future-oriented standardization—Interview with Rachel Miller Prada, ISO Capacity Building Project Manager
Key Words:ISO
ISO releases standards for electronic bill of lading
ISO 5909:2026, Business processes and data interchange of electronic bill of lading based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), was released.
Key Words:blockchain
APEC meeting on carbon emission management standards held
The meeting on carbon emission management standards and best practices for urban sewage treatment was held in Guangzhou on February 3.
Key Words:carbon,APEC
ODCCN/PAS 1:2025 for humane entrepreneurship released
The release ceremony of the international standard ODCCN/PAS 1:2025 on guidance for humane entrepreneurship was held in Seoul, South Korea.
Key Words:CCPIT
Six departments issue plan for logistics standardization
Six departments have jointly issued a plan for key tasks of modern logistics standardization for the period of 2025-2027.
Key Words:logistics
ISO releases two standards for textiles
Recently, two international standards, ISO 8159:2025 and ISO 17971:2025 were officially released.
Key Words:ISO,fibre
China launches the global AI standards library
The global AI standards library and the global AI terminology library were launched.
Key Words:AI
A batch of important national standards for CCUS released
China released 12 national standards for carbon capture, utilization and storage.
Key Words:CCUS,carbon
CAS establishes the committee on low-altitude economy
The launching ceremony of the Professional Committee on Low-altitude Economy of China Association for Standardization (CAS) was held in Beijing.
Key Words:low-altitude,CAS
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
