CNIS Call for Standards Digitalization Expert to Join National Technical Committee

On 23 April 2026, the China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS) issued a call for experts to join the management committee of the National Standards Digitalization Standardization Technical Committee. CNIS serves as the secretariat of the committee’s predecessor, the National Standards Digitalization Standardization Working Group (SAC/SWG 29), which was established in November 2022 and has operated for over three years.

Under the Measure for the Administration of the China National Standardization Technical Committee, a standardization working group that has operated for full three years and received technical committee conversion approval from the relevant State Council department becomes eligible for establishment as a formal technical committee. SAC/SWG 29 now meets these conversion requirements.

Building upon SAC/SWG 29’s achievements, the National Standards Digitalization Standardization Technical Committee will be responsible for standardization work in the fields of foundational and general standards digitalization, modeling and implementation of common technologies, and application technologies. CNIS is now soliciting committee member candidates from producers, consumers, operators, and users in relevant fields nationwide, as well as from public interest stakeholders including administrative authorities, educational and research institutions, testing and certification bodies, and social organizations.

Candidates should be engaged in scientific research, management, certification, or development in areas such as standardization principles and methods, standards digitalization, information technology, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and knowledge management. They should possess high theoretical competence, solid professional knowledge, rich practical experience, and strong professional and foreign language proficiency.

The call for experts with foreign language capacity in the newly converted technical committee signals potential international collaboration and alignment, as well as standards translation on its agenda. SESEC encourages European stakeholders to engage with SAC/SWG 29 and CNIS, sharing mature European practices with Chinese counterparts to better understand China’s progress, stay abreast of first-hand updates, and foster mutual alignment.

In January 2026, the National Standardization Administration of China (SAC) approved the publication of nine SAC/SWG 29 standards. SESEC prepared a news report and a full list of these standards. Interested readers may click here to view the page.