Jiangsu province issued the opinions on implementing the Outline on May 18, 2022, which will improve the standards system for high-quality development of the province.

Targets in figures

  • Release more than 1,000 local standards, disclose more than 1,000 association standards through self-declaration, increase over 50,000 enterprise standards, and draft more than 60 international standards and over 1,000 national standards with leading efforts.
  • Establish more than 30 technical standard innovation bases, establish over 30 standardization technical committees at the provincial level, and cultivate more than 1,000 standardization directors for enterprises.

Major tasks

  • Promote the integrated development of standardization and technical innovation by improving the mechanism of transforming technical innovation achievements into standards, carrying out the standard layout in digital economy, and facilitating research and technical bodies to conduct standardization work.
  • Improve the standardization level of industrial chain and supply chain by strengthening standards development in full industrial chain of modern agriculture, improving the standardization level of key industrial chain in advanced manufacturing, increasing the quality and efficiency of standards in modern services, and improving the standardization level of supply chain.
  • Improve the standardization of green development in the areas of carbon peak and neutrality, ecological environment, protection and utilization of natural resources as well as green production and consumption.
  • Accelerate the standardization process of urban and rural construction and social progress, such as rural revitalization, new urbanization, basic public services, public safety, government affair services, social governance and quality life.
  • Raise the openness of standardization by innovating work mechanism, optimizing standards supply, strengthening standards implementation, reinforcing standards supervision, facilitating integrated development and promoting balanced development.
  • Drive standardization reform and innovation by promoting regional standardization, serving national standardization development, participating in international standardization cooperation, and advancing the work on technical measures to trade.
  • Consolidate the foundation of standardization development by improving standardization service capability, giving play to the role of standardization technical bodies, strengthening standardization talents building, and creating good social environment for standardization.

Source: China Standardization Magazine, 5th issue, 2022.