The National Standardization Administration recently issued the "2024 National Standardization Work Key Points," divided into 4 major parts with a total of 90 articles. The full text is as follows:
Notice from the National Standardization Administration on Issuing the "2024 National Standardization Work Key Points"
Market supervision bureaus (departments, commissions) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Secretariat of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the General Offices (offices, comprehensive departments) of relevant State Council departments, the General Office of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, relevant people's organizations, industry associations (federations):
The "2024 National Standardization Work Key Points" are hereby issued to you. Please conscientiously implement them in accordance with actual conditions.
National Standardization Administration
2024 National Standardization Work Key Points
2024 is a critical year for deeply advancing the implementation of the "National Standardization Development Outline" (hereinafter referred to as the Outline) and achieving the Outline's 2025 development goals. The overall requirement for standardization work in 2024 is: guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, adhere to high-quality development as the hard truth of the new era, regard promoting Chinese-style modernization as the greatest political task, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, strengthen quality support and standard guidance, deeply advance the implementation of key tasks in the Outline, implement the requirements of the National Market Supervision Work Conference, use standards to strongly lead the construction of a modern industrial system, focus on expanding domestic demand, fully enhance the level of openness, coordinate development and security, promote standardization to better serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, realize the development of the standardization cause itself, and contribute to comprehensively advancing the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
1. Focus on expanding domestic demand and accelerate the promotion of a new round of standard upgrades.
1. Expedite the revision of a batch of mandatory national standards for energy consumption limits and product equipment energy efficiency, formulate and revise pollutant emission standards in key industries such as pesticides, starch, petrochemicals, and uranium mining and metallurgy, leading the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries.
2. Strengthen the formulation and implementation of mandatory national standards for key industrial products related to safety and special equipment, achieving "being strong when should be strong, and as strong as possible when should be strong."
3. Promote the upgrading of standards in fields such as agricultural machinery equipment and CNC machine tools, facilitating the high-end, intelligent, and green upgrading and transformation of equipment and materials.
4. Proactively layout a batch of new standards in emerging fields such as new energy storage, hydrogen energy, and safety emergency equipment, guiding industrial development directions and actively cultivating new business formats and models.
5. Accelerate the upgrading of product quality and safety standards for home appliances, furniture, decoration and renovation materials, formulate standards related to home appliance energy efficiency, water efficiency, and recycling of waste home appliances, assisting the renewal and replacement of bulk consumer goods.
6. Upgrade standards for intelligent manufacturing, green manufacturing, and service-oriented manufacturing. Improve the integration standards system of informatization and industrialization, and accelerate the development of digital transformation standards.
7. Promote standards for new infrastructure such as new data centers and electric vehicle charging.
8. Strengthen the development of standards in high-end consumer electronics and green products to meet the demands of high-end and green consumption.
9. Improve standards for elderly-friendly furniture and home appliances, elderly-friendly equipment and internet applications, rehabilitation aids, and other elderly-friendly products to ensure the elderly live with peace of mind and comfort.
10. Improve standards in catering, housekeeping, tourism, cultural entertainment, fitness, and other fields to boost confidence in service consumption.
2. Cultivate new advantages in international competition and cooperation, vigorously implement the standard internationalization leapfrog project.
11. Actively participate in the governance of international standard organizations such as ISO, IEC, and ITU, contributing Chinese wisdom in strategic implementation frameworks, evaluation frameworks, roadmaps, and other aspects.
12. Revise the "Management Measures for Participation in International Standardization Activities of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)".
13. Encourage broader participation from all parties in activities of various international professional standard organizations.
14. Promote the establishment of new technical bodies within international standard organizations in fields such as cultural heritage protection and digital marketing.
15. Propose a batch of international standard proposals in key areas including climate change, financial services, digital economy, new energy, aerospace, shipbuilding, and traditional Chinese medicine.
16. Focus on key and emerging technology fields such as carbon peak and carbon neutrality, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology, adding a batch of registered experts in international standard organizations.
17. Explore the formation of a number of international standardization innovation teams in key areas such as new energy vehicles, new power systems, and next-generation information technology, strengthening the construction of an international standardization talent pool.
18. Implement a batch of standardization capacity-building cooperation projects, focusing on regions such as ASEAN, Central Asia, South Asia, and Africa, carrying out standardization training cooperation, and strengthening mutual learning and reference of standards between countries.
19. Strengthen standard information exchange and dialogue, further improve the jointly built "Belt and Road" national standard information platform, carry out standard exchanges, and continuously promote mutual recognition and cooperation of Chinese and foreign standards in fields such as electric vehicles, agriculture, and power.
20. Promote the hosting of the Standardization Sub-forum of the Hongqiao International Economic Forum, building a high-end dialogue platform for standardization.
III. Vigorously build a modern industrial system, concentrating efforts to carry out a batch of major landmark projects for stabilizing the standard chain.
21. Improve the industrial basic standard system for core components (elements), key basic materials, advanced basic industries, and industrial technology foundations; accelerate the formulation of industrial software standards such as industrial design, industrial simulation, and databases, consolidating the foundation for high-quality industrial development.
22. Accelerate the formulation of standards for additive manufacturing special materials and key metal parts testing, promoting the popularization and utilization of additive manufacturing.
23. Release and implement standards for rare earth mining concentrates, rare earth smelting and separation, high-end rare earth processing, and rare earth secondary resource recycling. Accelerate the development of standards for recycled steel raw materials, recycled high-temperature alloy raw materials, recycled plastics, and rubber.
24. Focus on the development of integrated circuit standards such as chiplet interconnect interfaces and electronic design automation (EDA) tools, accelerating the construction of a full industrial chain standard system for integrated circuit design, manufacturing, and packaging and testing.
25. Promote the formulation of standards for robot whole machine reliability, information security, typical scenario application requirements, and promote the application of industrial and agricultural robots in various scenarios.
26. Develop a batch of national standards for large-scale application of Beidou, extending the value chain of large-scale Beidou applications.
27. Develop standards for new generation information technologies such as cloud computing, blockchain, and big data, cultivating and expanding emerging industries.
28. Focus on generative artificial intelligence security, strengthening the development of security standards for key links such as service security, manual annotation security, pre-training, and optimized training data security.
29. Focus on intelligent connected vehicle assisted driving safety, releasing and implementing a series of safety standards for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
30. Develop electrification standards for engineering machinery such as excavators, loaders, and dump trucks, promoting the electrification transformation of engineering machinery.
31. Develop standards for smart home interconnection architecture, cloud-edge collaboration, local interconnection, product evaluation, etc., to achieve smart home interconnection and interoperability.
32. Coordinate national-level standardization pilot demonstrations, simultaneously promoting technological breakthroughs, standard development, and industrial promotion.
33. Strengthen coordination and linkage among upstream and downstream standardization technical organizations, comprehensively use standards at all levels to build a standard chain compatible with the industrial chain.
34. Release a batch of landmark achievements in stabilizing the standard chain, organize on-site experience exchange promotion meetings, and provide replicable and promotable standard paradigms.
IV. Accelerate the promotion of the construction of a unified national market, continuously optimize the new type of standard system, and focus on strengthening standard implementation and application.
35. Continuously optimize the national and industry standard systems, carry out pilot projects for system optimization and upgrading in key fields such as non-ferrous metals, plastics, earthmoving machinery, metal cutting machine tools, and wind power equipment; based on industrial development needs, intensify efforts to integrate, revise, formulate, and abolish batches of standards.
36. Regulate the formulation and application of local standards, clear existing stocks, strictly control increments, review, inspect, and rectify improper references to local standards in local policies and measures that affect fair competition, and clear local standards that are formulated beyond scope or have non-compliant technical content.
37. Develop national standards for business entity credit commitments, classification of dishonest information, and credit evaluation of individual industrial and commercial households, promoting orderly sharing and efficient use of evaluation information, supporting multi-department joint supervision of dishonest behavior.
38. Optimize the product defect and safety management standard system, strengthen the formulation of key standards for frontier technology safety assessment and defect analysis.
39. Promote the construction of a coordinated and supporting national standard sample system, increase efforts in developing standard samples in key fields such as green ecology, biotechnology, metal and non-metal materials, and energy, enriching the types and quantities of standard samples.
40. Develop national standards for fair competition compliance management of operators, providing guidance for fair competition compliance management.
41. Improve the standard specification system for integrated market supervision platform networks, study and develop management specifications for integrated platform network access institutions.
42. Promote data investigation on standard implementation, establish an assessment and evaluation plan for the statistical analysis points of mandatory standard implementation, and form a management mechanism of "input and output."
43. Promote regular statistical analysis of mandatory national standard implementation by regions, departments, and statistical analysis points.
44. Establish and improve the incentive mechanism for the citation of regulations and standard implementation, strictly implement the enterprise standard self-declaration disclosure and supervision system, and enhance the foundational support role of standardization in economic and social development.
45. Strengthen the normative management of national-level standardization pilot demonstrations, coordinate layout and system construction, reinforce goal orientation and effect evaluation, and play the role of point-driven efforts, area-wide demonstration, and overall promotion.
46. Vigorously promote the evaluation of standard implementation effects, form a batch of methods and models for evaluating standard implementation effects, and promote a batch of typical examples of standard implementation effects.
47. Establish a standardization innovation activity index model and periodically release national, local, and enterprise standardization innovation development reports.
48. Explore the establishment of the Yellow River Basin ecological protection and high-quality development standard system, the Yangtze River Economic Belt ecological civilization standard system, promote the formulation of mandatory water quota standards for high water-consuming industries in the Yellow River Basin, improve the North China regional "3+2" standardization strategic cooperation mechanism, perfect the Yangtze River Delta regional collaborative local standard management system, and release a batch of regionally coordinated local standards with "same work, same standard."
49. Focus on the common needs of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in food, transportation, modern services, and water-related affairs, and announce a batch of "Bay Area Standards."
50. Build a cross-strait common standards service platform to provide standard information services for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
51. Carry out urban standardization actions and promote the construction of international standardization innovative cities and comprehensive pilot projects for urban standardization innovation.
V. Build a higher-level open economic system and steadily expand standard institutional openness.
52. Focus on key areas such as consumer goods, manufacturing, new infrastructure, and carbon peak and carbon neutrality, actively transform advanced and applicable international standards, and improve the consistency level between domestic and international standards.
53. Combine the cooperation needs of countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" in industry, trade, science and technology, and engineering construction, accelerate the translation of Chinese standards into foreign languages, and increase the overseas application and mutual recognition of Chinese standards.
54. Accelerate coordination and docking with relevant rules such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), and promote alignment with international high-standard economic and trade rules.
55. Study and formulate guiding opinions on steadily expanding standard institutional openness, promoting high-level openness with high standards.
56. Improve the correspondence level of national professional standardization technical committees with international counterparts and increase the proportion of technical committee members becoming registered international standard experts.
57. Support free trade pilot zones/ports to carry out pilot projects on standard institutional openness, prioritizing the construction of institutional systems and regulatory models aligned with international high-standard economic and trade rules.
58. Promote the international development of Chinese group standard organizations and support enterprises, social organizations, and research institutions to actively participate in and cultivate international professional standard organizations.
59. Better leverage multilateral and bilateral mechanisms such as China-Europe, Northeast Asia, China-Russia, China-ASEAN, China-Germany, China-France, and China-UK to carry out practical standardization cooperation.
60. Actively expand cooperative partnerships with relevant countries in regions such as the Arab world, Africa, and the Americas, and sign more standardization cooperation documents.
61. Establish a China-US government-to-government dialogue mechanism on standards and conformity assessment to strengthen standardization cooperation and exchanges.
62. Propose more standardization cooperation topics on cooperation platforms such as APEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS. Under the framework of mechanisms such as the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, plan more standardization achievements.
VI. Achieve high-quality development of the standardization cause itself, focusing on consolidating the foundation of standardization development and expanding the influence of standardization.
63. Revise the management measures for national standardization guiding technical documents, agricultural and rural standardization management measures, and international standard adoption management measures, and promote the formulation of group standard management measures.
64. Explore the establishment of an annual reporting system for industry standard codes.
65. Vigorously implement the group standard excellence cultivation plan and organize the evaluation of group standard organization capabilities.
66. Formulate and implement management measures to strengthen standard implementation supervision, continuously promote "double random, one public" supervision of group standards and enterprise standards, and strengthen supervision and spot checks of industry standards and local standards.
67. Implement the "Measures to Promote Enterprise Standardization," and deeply promote enterprise standard self-declaration disclosure and supervision.
68. Accelerate the issuance of guiding opinions on deepening the interactive development of standardization and technological innovation.
69. Coordinate construction and scientific management of various levels and types of standardization technical organizations, focus on frontier technologies and emerging fields such as Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), and proactively layout a batch of standardization project research groups and standardization technical organizations.
70. Actively promote standard digitalization research and carry out standard digitalization pilot projects.
71. Deepen the implementation of the technical organization liaison mechanism and smooth the "microcirculation" of technical organizations.
72. Continuously carry out assessment and evaluation of national professional standardization technical committees and domestic technical counterpart units of international standard organizations, strengthen the use of results, and achieve dynamic management of "in and out."
73. Organize the selection and commendation activities for the China Standard Innovation Contribution Award.
74. Cultivate more than 300 standard innovation enterprises.
75. Continue to successfully hold the "Private Economy Standard Innovation Week" event.
76. Encourage enterprises to strive to become "leaders" in enterprise standards and deeply carry out benchmarking and improvement actions.
77. Continue to do well in the construction of national-level standardization pilot demonstration projects in agriculture and rural areas, intelligent manufacturing, circular economy, services, social management, etc.
78. Make good use of the think tank resources of the China Standardization Expert Committee, strengthen basic theoretical research on standardization, design technical paths, and judge development trends.
79. Deeply implement the "Special Action Plan for Standardization Talent Training (2023-2025)", improve the classification system and professional standards related to standardization, and promote the construction of standardization talent careers.
80. Carry out national standardization talent classification statistics and build a national standardization talent classification training database.
81. Relying on general higher education institutions, strengthen the construction of standardization-related majors, support vocational colleges with conditions to offer standardization technology majors, and vigorously cultivate applied standardization talents. Increase efforts to train international standardization talents and continuously expand China's international standardization talent team. Select and train enterprise standardization directors.
82. Organize and hold business training for standardization management personnel and strengthen the promotion and interpretation of standardization policies.
83. Further enrich the resources of Standard Cloud Courses and Committee Online Lecture Halls, increase the compilation and publication of standardization textbooks, and comprehensively cultivate a professional standardization talent team.
84. Comprehensively use various media carriers to publicize the achievements of standardization work through expert forums, internal publications, and "Two Micro One End" media channels.
85. Continue to do a good job in promoting the implementation of the outline, summarize and promote innovative practices and beneficial experiences in implementing the outline.
86. Carry out publicity and interpretation of important national standards, continuously enhance the authority and influence of national standards through various forms of promotion such as infographic reading and short videos.
87. Hold World Standards Day activities, widely carry out standardization publicity, and create a good atmosphere for standardization work.
88. Approve a new batch of national technical standard innovation bases, revise the "Management Measures for National Technical Standard Innovation Bases", strengthen the construction and management of innovation bases, synchronously promote technological breakthroughs, standard formulation, and industrial promotion, and timely integrate advanced and applicable scientific and technological innovation achievements into standards to improve the level of standards.
89. Approve the establishment of a batch of national standard verification points and formulate construction and management measures for national standard verification points.
90. Consolidate and deepen the achievements of thematic education, and promote the in-depth implementation of the outline with a high sense of political responsibility.
