On June 4, 2026, a delegation from the Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS), led by its President, Ms. Annika Andreasen, visited the China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS) in Beijing. The CNIS President, Mr. Wang Kun, and relevant officials from the Department of Standards Innovative Management under the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) received the delegation.
Discussions during the meeting covered a broad and forward-looking range of topics, including standards digitalization, robotics, district heating networks, vehicle technologies, mining, green and low-carbon development, artificial ice and snow landscapes, standards information exchange, and industrial clusters.
Both sides reached multiple important consensus points regarding governance within the ISO Council and the Technical Management Board (TMB), as well as technical collaboration across relevant sectors. The talks also mapped out potential future cooperation pathways, laying a solid foundation for coordinated development within the ISO framework moving forward.
The topics covered during the meeting—ranging from standards digitalization, green and low-carbon development, and vehicle technologies to artificial ice and snow landscapes—span multiple sectors from traditional industries to emerging business forms. The consensus reached by both sides at the ISO Council and Technical Management Board (TMB) governance levels has laid the groundwork for future coordination of positions and advancement of specific technical standard cooperation within the ISO framework. On the whole, this was an exchange that involved substantive discussions at both the ISO governance level and the technical level. How the two sides will follow up on specific projects remains worth watching.
Overall, the China-Sweden standardization talks provide European stakeholders with useful insight into China’s approach to international standards governance. The expressed willingness to coordinate within the ISO Council and TMB, as well as the discussions on technical cooperation across multiple sectors, are developments worth following closely. SESEC will keep monitoring these developments and their potential implications for European stakeholders.
Source: https://www.cnis.ac.cn/ynbm/gjbzhyjzx/zhxw/202606/t20260609_63144.html
