On August 16, 2024, China’s State Council Information Office held a press conference as part of its ongoing series on “Promoting High-Quality Development.” The event highlighted China’s progress in advancing national quality infrastructure, with over 45,000 national standards issued across all industries and societal sectors. With an international standard adoption rate exceeding 83%, China has made […]
At the end of August 2024, the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) issued three mandatory national standards for the automotive industry: GB 44495-2024: Technical Requirements for Vehicle Cybersecurity GB 44496-2024: General Technical Requirements for Software Updates of Vehicles GB 44497-2024: Intelligent and Connected Vehicles—Data Storage System for Automated Driving These standards will take effect on […]
At the end of August, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) officially approved and released the GB/T 24067-2024 Greenhouse Gas—Product Carbon Footprint—Quantification Requirements and Guidelines, led by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). This standard is a foundational component of the Implementation Plan for Establishing a Carbon Footprint Management System, jointly issued by 15 ministries, […]
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have officially released the world’s first international standard in the field of quantum computing: ISO/IEC 4879 Information Technology — Quantum Computing — Vocabulary (hereinafter referred to as the Standard). This document defines over 80 key terms in quantum computing, providing a unified language framework that […]
From August 14 to 15, 2024, the 14th Electric Vehicle (EV) Standards and Regulations Seminar was jointly hosted by the China Automotive Standardization Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) and the Dongfeng Motor Corporation R&D Institute in Wuhan, China. The two-day event brought together nearly 300 experts from domestic and international vehicle manufacturers, […]
On August 26, 2024, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) jointly released the Guidelines for the Construction of the Internet of Things (IoT) Standard System – 2024 Version (referred to as the Guidelines). This document aligns with the Implementation Plan for the Leading Engineering of Standardization in New Industries […]
On August 14, 2024, the Sixth China-ASEAN Cooperation Dialogue on Automotive Standards and Regulations (hereinafter referred to as the Dialogue) was successfully held in Bangkok, Thailand. The Dialogue was co-hosted by the China Automotive Standardization Research Institute and the Automotive Products Working Group of the ASEAN Consultative Committee for Standards and Quality (ACCSQ), with support from the Thai Industrial Standards Institute and Thailand’s Department of Land […]
From July 15 to 19, 2024, the two experts from the secretariat of the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) participated in a training session in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, at the invitation of the National Center of Accreditation of Kazakhstan (NCA). The training focused on Proficiency Testing Providers (PTP) and aimed to help Kazakhstan gain a […]
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 […]
On August 22, 2024, the National City Sustainable Development Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC567) released the draft for comments of the national recommended standard project: 20231601-T-469 Smart community infrastructures – Guidelines on data exchange and sharing for smart community infrastructures (hereinafter referred to as the Standard). The comment submission period will remain open until October 20, 2024. The Standard is […]