China to Update Standards for Ten Traditional Industries, Add 20,000 National Standards

TREE NEWS update: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said on September 20 it will keep pushing standards upgrades for ten traditional industries and advance standards-setting for emerging and future industries. Zhu Jianqiao, head of the administration’s online transaction supervision department, said at a State Council Information Office briefing that at least 20,000 national standards and at least 1,000 mandatory national standards will be drafted or revised. The plan also includes at least 200 overseas pilot applications of Chinese standards.