1. Agricultural standards

 

China has introduced the top-level design for agricultural and rural standardization work in the new era. The State Council forwarded the Guiding opinions of SAMR and MARA on strengthening agricultural and rural standardization work, providing standardization support for implementing rural revitalization strategy. In 2019, China published 113 national standards for ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural inputs, preventing and controlling animal and plant diseases, and grading the quality of agricultural products. It has been making efforts to establish a whole-industrialchain standards system for the total-factor, whole-chain and multilayer modern agriculture.

 

Tibet and Qinghai have promoted the development of national standards to support industries such as highland barley to facilitate poverty alleviation. It has accomplished the construction of 268 national agricultural standardization demonstration areas, gaining a wealth of experience of agricultural standardization demonstration and popularization. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) has promoted the construction of standard orchards, vegetable and tea gardens, and livestock, poultry and aquaculture farms. National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration issued the Opinions on standardization reform in the area of food and strategic reserves to promote high-quality development and proposed to establish high-quality and efficient modern grain circulation system and a national unified food and strategic reserves system.

 

2. Industrial standards

 

Regarding food and consumer products, food quality standards have been downsized. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Ministry of Commerce (MOC), National Health Commission, National Intellectual Property Administration and other departments have proposed 1,393 national food standards and made the plan of developing and revising 390 national food standards to advance the establishment of national food quality standards system. MIIT has also accelerated the development and revision of mandatory national standards for household appliances, children shoes, lighting appliances, etc. In response to the needs of customized, intelligent and green development, China has promoted the development of standards for the design and production quality control of customized consumer products, home service robotics, and green product assessment of kitchen and toilet hardware. It has released standards for popular consumer products such as electronic toilet, smart household appliances and jewelry made of precious metals.

 

Regarding equipment manufacturing, NDRC, MIIT and National Energy Administration (NEA) introduced standardization policies and measures to promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing industry and modern services industry, improve the design capability of manufacturing industry, promote the standardization in smart manufacturing, industrial internet, integration of industrialization and informationization, energy internet and other areas, and upgrade standards in manufacturing industry.

 

Ministry of Science and Technology, and Chinese Academy of Engineering have carried out the action of standards guiding the development of new material and additive manufacturing and promoted the establishment of standards system for emerging industries. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has completed the development and revision of GB/T 50378-2019, Assessment standard for green building and others. MEE has advanced the development of quality standards for recycled copper and aluminium products. NEA, National Nuclear Safety Administration and State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence have jointly promoted nuclear standardization work.

 

3. Service standards

 

In the modern services industry, seven ministries and commissions including SAMR, NDRC, State Post Bureau have jointly promoted the development of green packaging standards for delivery industry. MCA has vigorously promoted standardization of elderly care services and applied standards in the implementation of the Senior Citizens’ Rights Guarantee Act, and Administrative Measures for Nursing Home. National standards for geographic names, Chinese translation of foreign geographic names and others have been completed.

 

People's Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, and China Insurance Regulatory Commission have finished the mid-term evaluation of the financial standards innovation pilot programs. NDRC, MOC, and All-China Women’s Federation have jointly promoted the standardization of household management services. MOT has developed national standards for urban railway transit facilities and operation. General Administration of Sport has facilitated the implementation and popularization of winter sports standards, supporting the Olympic Winter Games to be held in China in 2022.

 

Regarding ecological civilization, China released 24 mandatory national standards on energy efficiency and water efficiency of air conditioner, indoor lighting LED light, dish washing, etc., and completed the evaluation of 37 national standardization pilot programs on circular economy in 2019. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development revised GB/T 19095-2019, Signs for classification of municipal solid waste. Ministry of Natural Resources has promoted the development of national standards in such areas as real estate, marine industry and green mining. MEE has promoted the development of national standards on emission limits of air pollutants and toxic and harmful substances limit in fertilizers in pharmaceuticals, coating, ink, adhesive substance and other areas. In addition, establishment of standards systems has been greatly facilitated in the national ecological civilization experiment zones in Jiangxi, Guizhou and Hainan provinces.

 

4. Standards for social undertakings

 

Regarding social governance, we have implemented the State Council's deployment of streamlining administrative approval, optimizing government services and promoting disclosure of government affairs, published related national standards such as GB/T 38227-2019, Specification for agency services of investment projects construction approval, and advanced national standardization pilot programs on the disclosure of government affairs at the grassroots level. Seventeen ministries and commissions jointly formulated the Guideline on the disclosure of government affairs at the grassroots level in key areas.

 

The Cyberspace Administration of China revised GB/T35273-2020, Information security technology—Personal information security specification. NDRC and Ministry of Finance have applied a series of national standards on the coding rules of the unified social credit identifier for organizations to construct the social credit system. Ministry of Public Security has promoted the development of national standards on explosive substance and equipment. Ministry of Justice has facilitated the establishment of standardization technical bodies including those on lawyer services. Ministry of Emergency Management published 40 national standards in such areas as safe production, fire fighting and hazardous chemicals. Moreover, National Government Offices Administration has announced the second batch of 20 standardization pilot projects on government affairs.

 

Regarding public services, we have implemented the Guiding opinions on establishing and improving the standards system of fundamental public services issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Information Office of the State Council. We have promoted the development of more than 100 national standards on public culture, labor management and protection, urban transport, etc., and published more than 40 national standards on disabled care services, safe use of public sports facilities, personal account management of urban and rural residents' basic endowment insurance, etc. SAMR, NDRC and Ministry of Finance have launched the national fundamental public services standardization pilot programs in more than 50 cities and counties. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has actively promoted the pilot program.

 

Fujian province took the lead in implementing the Standards system for fundamental public services. Regarding rural areas and new-type urbanization, we focused on rural inhabited environment improvement, rural governance and development of new countryside, promoting the development of standards for rural toilet construction and renovation, rural garbage disposal, rural sanitation services, village affairs management and supervision, evaluation of featured township, and new urban areas. GB/T 38353-2019, Specification for construction and management of public toilets in rural areas, and GB/T 38354-2019, Specification for service and management of rural electronic commerce service stations, have been published to facilitate effective rural governance. We have accomplished the construction of 50 national rural comprehensive reform standardization pilot programs and 16 new-type urbanization standardization pilot programs, gaining a wealth of advanced standardization experience that can be replicated and popularized in the areas of beautiful village construction, rural property-rights trading, development of new-type countryside and integrated development of industry and cities.

 

 

 

(Extract from China Standardization Development Report 2019)