China has played an active role in international standardization
activities and has made a remarkable contribution, officials with
the China State Commission for the Administration of
Standardization said recently.
China is now a member of more than 100technical committees and over
500 subcommittees under the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), and a
member of 85technical committees and 124 subcommittees under the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
The country also works with the secretariats of one ISO technical
committee and another five ISO subcommittees.
Every year China sends several hundred experts to attend technical
conferences organized by the ISO and IEC, to exchange views and
discuss ideas with their foreign counterparts. It has also
sponsored a dozen conferences of ISO and IEC technical committees,
according to sources.
By
the end of last year, China had worked out and submitted
approximately 40 drafts for international standards to the ISO and
IEC, many of which have been accepted as internationally recognized
standards.
Altogether China has set nearly 20,000 national standards, over
8000,or 43.5 percent of which are international standards or
advanced standards in some foreign countries.
An
increasing number of people are engaging in China's standardization
work, officials say, adding that as many as 258 special commissions
for standardization administration have been established across the
country.
(eastday.com
10/14/2001)