National Standards Committee: Strong Growth in China's Standard Supply

　　Since the beginning of this year, the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standardization Administration) has actively implemented the "Outline for Building a Quality Power" and the "Outline for National Standardization Development," closely focusing on the central government's overall strategy to promote qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth of the economy, increasing the supply of standards and actively leading high-quality development with high standards.

　　The scale of national standard supply has increased by more than 110% year-on-year. In the first three quarters, 1,971 national standards were newly approved and released, a year-on-year increase of 110.6%. Among them, 1,660 national standards were released in the industrial sector, accounting for 84.2%; 122 national standards in the agriculture and rural sector; 118 national standards in the service sector; and 71 national standards in social management and public services.

　　The public release of group standards and enterprise standards increased by more than 20% and 12% year-on-year, respectively.

　　The release of the "Interim Provisions on the Adoption of Group Standards as Recommended National Standards" and the "Measures to Promote Enterprise Standardization" has strongly promoted the innovative development of group and enterprise standards. In the first three quarters, social organizations publicly released 13,972 new group standards, a year-on-year increase of 22.0%; enterprises publicly declared 391,230 self-declared standards, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%, among which 181,778 standards were for high-tech industries, accounting for 46.5%.

　　For the first time, a list of 110 common execution standards for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was published. A memorandum of cooperation to promote standards in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was signed, launching a standards information platform and a Bay Area standards mark. Focusing on key areas with high commonality and easy integration, the list of 110 common execution standards for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was published for the first time, covering 25 fields including food, traditional Chinese medicine, transportation, elderly care, and logistics.

　　Nearly ten million "Belt and Road" standards information services. Accelerating the construction of the "Belt and Road" joint national standards information platform, the public service platform for technical trade measures, and the information platform for facilitating trade in conformity assessment services, promoting soft connectivity of "Belt and Road" rules and standards. Currently, information on standardization profiles of 149 countries and 1.29 million standard catalog entries have been integrated; industry reports covering regulations, standards, conformity assessment, and cases in more than 30 sub-industries across 7 major sectors including electromechanical, light industry and textiles, agricultural and sideline products, and food have been collected; information services have been provided to export enterprises over 9.7 million times.

　　The State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standardization Administration) will further strengthen the implementation of the "Outline for Building a Quality Power" and the "Outline for National Standardization Development," focusing on new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models, improving the standard supply mechanism, enhancing the efficiency of standard supply, and better promoting high-quality economic and social development.