As a part of the 2026 ZGC Forum, the Standardization and Science and Technological Innovation Development Forum was held on March 26 at the Zhongguancun International Innovation Center in Beijing.

Deng Zhiyong, Vice Minister of SAMR and Administrator of SAC, Tang Wenhong, Vice Mayor of Beijing Municipal People’s Government, and Sergio Mujica, Secretary-General of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), attended and addressed the forum.

At the forum, it is pointed out that as a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerates, standards become a key element in the profound adjustment of the global innovation landscape and industrial layout. It is imperative to improve the mechanism for transforming innovative achievements into standards, accelerate the application of scientific and technological outcomes, and the iteration and upgrading of products, and promote the integration of the innovation chain, standards chain and industrial chain.

Efforts will be made to advance the standards for the modern industrial system, enhance the development of standards in emerging industries such as integrated circuits, aerospace, and low-altitude economy, strengthen the layout of standards in future industries, including quantum technology, embodied intelligence, and brain-computer interfaces, as well as improve the quality and expand the scope of standards in the service industry.

Further efforts will be made to deepen international exchanges and cooperation on standards, vigorously implement measures for steadily expanding the institutional opening-up of standards, promote the alignment and compatibility of domestic and international rules, regulations, management practices and standards, and leverage the soft connectivity of standards to facilitate extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared development.

The forum was attended by representatives from relevant municipal departments and district governments of Beijing, market regulation departments of Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other provinces, as well as experts from standardization research institutions, industry associations, enterprises and universities.