On 31st December 2025, the Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT/TC01) convened its second plenary meeting of 2025 in Beijing. The event gathered over 500 participants, including distinguished guests: Xie Shaofeng, Chief Engineer of MIIT; Zheng Zhiming, Chairman of MIIT/TC01 and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wen Ku, Advisor of MIIT/TC01 and Chairman of the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).
Xie Shaofeng,Chief Engineer of MIIT, stressed that the MIIT/TC01 must clarify its new tasks in the current context. He emphasized the need to leverage standards to drive technological progress, accelerate the development of next-generation products, enhance enterprise intelligence, and expedite the formation of a strong industrial ecosystem. He urged rigorous implementation of all tasks in accordance with the overarching requirements of standardization work – “fast, superior, and strong” – and for improving standardization activities, including preliminary research, project initiation, drafting, release, promotion, implementation, and evaluation.
The goal is to rapidly transform MIIT/TC01 into a leading standardization organization that drives technological innovation, regulates industrial development, supports national strategies, and exerts significant international influence, thereby transforming standardization outcomes into a powerful engine for the high-quality development of China’s AI industry.
Wei Kai, Secretary-General of MIIT/TC01, reported on the committee’s work in 2025. Since its establishment one year ago, MIIT/TC01 has made rapid progress in institutional development, attracting over 800 member organizations, establishing 8 working groups, and developing standards guidelines covering 11 key areas, including large model evaluation, hardware-software co-design, and AI engineering.
As of December 30, 2025, 88 standards have passed working group review, 52 are pending ministry approval, 18 are under research, and 22 are awaiting final approval. The committee has also forged close collaborations with industry and information technology authorities in Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan, and other regions. Looking ahead, the MIIT/TC01 will accelerate standards development to better meet real-world industrial needs, establish standards application demonstration zones, deepen pragmatic cooperation in standardization, build public service platforms, and enhance the intelligent management of standards.
Wang Yuntao, Director of the MIIT/TC01 Secretariat Office, released and interpreted the Research Report on Artificial Intelligence Standardization Development (2025). The report systematically reviews the current status and challenges of AI standardization, forecasts future industry trends, and proposes key directions and implementation pathways for standardization work. It serves as an important decision-making reference and practical guide for standardized and high-quality development of China’s AI industry.
The meeting also released several key standardization tools:
- The Global AI Standards Database, containing over 840 international and 200 domestic standards.
- The Global AI Terminology Database, featuring over 1,200 terms from published national, sector, and international standards; and
- The Standards Review AI Agent—an assistant for standard drafting. This agent conducts comprehensive “health checks” on draft standards, helps intelligently identify missing elements, automatically generates rectification reports, and promotes the use of AI in standard revision.
Additionally, MIIT/TC01 announced a soon-to-be-published sector standard 2024-1328 T-YD Artificial Intelligence—Key Technologies—Benchmark Testing Methods for Embodied Intelligence. This standard has been finalized for approval and has also been successfully initiated as an international standard within ITU-T SG21. Building on this sector standard and leveraging the Embodied Intelligence Testing Laboratory, the AI Institute of CAICT organized the first round of the Trustworthy AI—Embodied Intelligence Benchmark (EAI Bench). The initial testing covered 9 real-world scenarios and 7 ontology types, with 6 enterprises completing the evaluation.
At the end of the plenary session, the 8 working groups of MIIT/TC01 each reported on their work summaries for 2025 and work plans for 2026.
To sum up, while MIIT/TC01 is a newly established Sector Standardization body under MIIT, it has moved swiftly to align with industrial and market trends in AI standardization, demonstrating clear ambition to become a leading and internationally influential force. However, China’s national AI standardization landscape already includes SAC/SC42 under SAMR, which has developed a comprehensive national standards system, developed 80+ national and sector standards (rough data from July 2025 SAC/SC42 plenary meeting), and built substantial influence within ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42. This suggests the potential for increasingly dynamic interaction—and possibly competition—between MIIT/TC01 and SAC/SC42 in shaping China’s AI standardization future. SESEC will continue to monitor the evolution of MIIT/TC01 and provide timely updates.
