The BRICS Economic and Trade Forum was convened on April 18 in Beijing, which was themed “Standards cooperation facilitates trade development, BRICS cooperation empowers the Global South”. The forum was hosted by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and co-organized by the CCPIT Commercial Sub-Council and the specialized working group on trade and […]
The first national standard on high performance computing (HPC), GB/T 45400-2025, Information technology—Cloud computing—Genera requirements of HPC in cloud, was issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standardization Administration of China), which will come into effect in October. The development of the voluntary national standard was led by Alibaba Cloud, China Electronics Standardization Institute and other institutions. It lays the foundation for […]
The Seconded European Standardization Expert in China (SESEC) is a visibility project co-financed by the European Commission (EC), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) secretariat and the three European Standardization Organizations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI). One task of the SESEC project is to make the intelligence collection for China Standardization and Technical Regulation. Here we […]
Behind the scenes of what remains of multilateralism, standardization plays a key role: that of creating simple, consensual and ambitious rules, driving practices upwards, for the benefit of all. This is one of the topics discussed at the France-China meeting held on Thursday, May 15 at Bercy. On the agenda of He Lifeng, Chinese Vice […]
To accelerate the high-quality development of domestic automotive chips, the Certification and Accreditation Technical Research Centre of the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) officially released the Automotive Chip Certification Review Technical System Version 1.0 on October 17, 2024. This system establishes a full-process quality management framework—from chip design and manufacturing to packaging, testing, and in-vehicle application—addressing a […]
From April 15 to 17, 2025, the first “Standards Week” event of the year organized by the National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee (TC260) was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Wang Jingtao, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and Chair of TC260, and Liu Xiaotao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee […]
On April 16, the 2025 International Standardization (Chilin) Conference grandly opened at the IEC International Standards Promotion Center in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in China. With the theme “Towards Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality: International Carbon Footprint Standards Driving Green and Low-Carbon Development,” the conference brought together nearly 100 academicians, experts, and senior officials from standardization organizations, along with close […]
On April 25, 2025, the International Seminar on Product Digital Passport (DPP) was successfully held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The event was hosted by the People’s Government of Xuanwu District, Nanjing, co-organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and Jiangsu International Data Port, and supported by institutions including the China National […]
On April 11, 2025, meetings was held virtually with leaders and delegations from the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), State Administration for Market Regulation / Standardization Administration of China (SAMR/SAC), Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates (MoIAT), Institute […]
On April 22, 2025, the Secretariat of the APEC Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EGEEC) officially announced that Liu Meng, Associate Researcher at the Resources and Environment Branch of the China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), has been successfully re-elected as Chair of EGEEC. His new term will run from July 2025 to […]