MIIT No. 48 Announcement on the Release of Sector Standards

On 9 December 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Announcement No. 48 of 2020, approving 669 sector standards. Among these, there are 58 communication sector standards (7 revised standards and 51 newly developed ones).

The communication standards released cover broadband speed enhancement, big data, cloud computing, network data security, radio monitoring, mobile communication intelligent terminal, cluster communication, and other fields. Three standards, including “Classification and Grading Method for Basic Telecommunication Enterprise Data“, started to be implemented from the date of release; while the remaining 55 standards, including “Technical Requirements and Testing Methods for Big Data Time-Series Databases“, started to be implemented from 1 January 2021.

The other 611 sector standards released cover machinery, chemical, petrochemical, metallurgy, non-ferrous metals, gold, building materials, rare earth, automobile, shipping, aviation, light industry, textile, military civil products (civil explosives), and electronics.

In addition, Announcement No. 48 also approved 23 foreign versions of sector standards – 10 of which cover optical communication, communication power and station environment, 4G, and other fields. However, the foreign versions of these sector standards are not open access to the public: interested stakeholders can only purchase the paper version from designated publishers:

The full Chinese text of Announcement No. 48 (2020) is available at:

https://www.miit.gov.cn/zwgk/zcwj/wjfb/gg/art/2020/art_92c6044d50d14118ac057e6399a82517.html