Recently, Standardization Administration of China (SAC) issued two notifications on investigations into the foreign language versions of Chinese national standards and investigations on international standard conversion.
The following table offers more details:
Investigation | Notification 1: work situations of China’s foreign language version of national standards | Notification 2: international standard conversion |
Purposes | 1. Fully understand the working situations of China’s foreign language version of national standards, make a conclusion on past experiences and analyze the problems. 2. Specify the key working areas and improve the working mechanism of foreign language version of Chinese national standards 3. Accelerate the amendment of China’s foreign language version of national standards. | 1. Fully understand the current situations of converting international standards into Chinese standards, make a conclusion on past experiences and analyze the problems. 2. Propose the requirements and working suggestions on international standards conversion in order to provide scientific basis for implementing international standards. |
Targets | 1. Market Supervision and Administration( office, committee) of all the provinces, municipalities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps 2. Related departments of State Council 3. Technical Committees | 1. Related departments of State Council 2. Related industrial committees 3. Technical committees 4. China’s technical counterparts of ISO and IEC |
Methods | 1. Online filing 2. Field visit | 1. Online filing 2. Field visit |
Results Application | 1. Giving priority to approval of foreign language version of national standards at the same time as approval of Chinese language version of national standards. | 1. Proposing the project list of international standards conversion for future two years. 2. Supporting the amendment work on national standards 3. Providing support for international standard conversion work of “Fourteenth Five year plan” |


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