According to the State Council’s work requirements of deepening standardization reform and streamlining mandatory standards, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently carried out a comprehensive clean-up of the mandatory industry standards of industrial communication industry, and decided to abolish 150 mandatory industry standards such as davit poles and adjust 354 mandatory industry standards such as Hexamethylene to recommended industry standards. This conclusion has been deliberated and agreed by the the State Council Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Standardization Coordination and Promotion.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an announcement announcing the abolition and adjustment of a number of mandatory standards for industrial communications. The announcement pointed out thatAccording to the State Council’s Work Plan for Deepening Standardization Reform and the State Council’s General Office’s Work Plan for Integrating and Streamlining Compulsory Standards, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has carried out a comprehensive clean-up of compulsory industry standards in industry and communications. After evaluation and item-by-item review, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology put forward the conclusion of integration and simplification, which has been reviewed and agreed at the third plenary session of the the State Council Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Standardization Coordination and Promotion (hereinafter referred to as the Joint Conference).
According to the requirements of the Notice of the Joint Conference Office on Printing and Distributing the Conclusions on the Integration and Simplification of Compulsory Standards (National Standards Committee Comprehensive Letter [2017] No.4), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology decided to abolish 150 compulsory industry standards (see Annex 1 for details), including 2 in shipbuilding industry, 1 in textile industry, 43 in chemical industry, 2 in pharmaceutical equipment industry, 29 in machinery industry, 58 in light industry and civil explosion industry. It is decided to adjust 354 compulsory industry standards such as Hexamethylene to recommended industry standards (see Annex 2 for details), including 129 in chemical industry, 9 in metallurgical industry, 31 in building materials industry, 1 in rare earth industry, 4 in machinery industry, 23 in pharmaceutical equipment industry, 13 in shipbuilding industry, 67 in light industry, 42 in textile industry, 2 in packaging industry and 22 in civil explosion industry.
Annex 1: List of abolished compulsory industry standards (150 items)
Annex 2: List of mandatory industry standards converted into recommendations (354 items)