Promote development to a new level through standardization strategy
28 Sep, 2025
The standardization system is an important component of the modern national governance system. We must conscientiously implement this important spirit, comprehensively implement the standardization strategy, explore a standardized construction path with Zhejiang characteristics, promote the transformation of governance, production, and lifestyle through standardization, and provide strategic support for achieving higher quality, more efficient, fairer, and more sustainable development.
Implementing standardization strategy is the only way to comprehensively deepen reform and promote modernization of national governance
Standardization is playing an increasingly important role in ensuring product quality and safety, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, improving economic quality and efficiency, and serving foreign trade and diplomacy. In recent years, the rapid development of China's economy and society has put forward higher requirements for the standard system and standardized management system. Implementing a standardization strategy and better leveraging its role in comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting modernization of national governance will contribute to sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress.
Promote standard innovation and support innovation driven development. Throughout human history, every revolutionary change in production tools and methods often leads to the emergence of new standards, which in turn drive social progress. Today, the breadth and depth of standardization profoundly affect the speed and quality of productivity development, and the level of standardization reflects a country or region's innovation capability and even comprehensive strength. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is emerging, and the speed of innovation driven development is getting faster and faster. The rapid diffusion and transfer of innovative achievements through standards have further accelerated the pace of marketization and industrialization, promoting the development of new formats, models, and industries. The comprehensive implementation of standardization strategy means building, sharing, and interconnecting standards to support and promote technological innovation, institutional innovation, industrial innovation, and management innovation, accelerate the promotion of technology patenting, patent standardization, and standard industrialization, and continuously consolidate the foundation of innovative development.
Strengthen standard setting and assist in supply side structural reform. People often say, 'Third rate companies sell products, second rate companies sell brands, and first-class companies sell standards.'. Standards are the passport for products and services to enter the market, representing the discourse power of rules and the high ground of industrial competition. Because of this, many multinational corporations are striving to push their technology onto the international stage, striving to make it an international standard; Some developed countries even spare no effort in using diplomatic, economic, and aid measures to elevate their own standards to international standards. Currently, standards have become a battleground for global manufacturing, international trade, and even the world economy. Those who meet the standards will conquer the world. Whoever holds the standard discourse power will be able to dominate the industry and have market initiative. To better promote the supply side structural reform in China, it is necessary to accelerate and strengthen the formulation and revision of advanced standards while widely adopting international standards. High standards should be used to reduce ineffective and low-end supply, expand effective and high-end supply, improve the ability of the supply system to adapt to demand, and achieve a leap from low-level to high-level supply-demand balance.
Improve standard governance and promote the modernization of government governance capacity. Standards are both the universal language of the world and the law of production. Like laws, regulations, strategies, planning, etc., they are the core elements of modern government governance. Only by integrating the concept and methods of standardization into government governance, promoting the reform of the "four lists and one network" (administrative power list, government responsibility list, investment negative list, financial special fund management list, and government service network) in a standardized manner, strengthening the formulation and implementation of government work standards, and building a system of government functional standards, can we truly promote government governance to enter the track of institutionalization, standardization, and scientification. Fully implementing the standardization strategy, promoting the deep integration of the standardization process into government governance activities, and comprehensively building a government governance standard system will help promote the formation of a standardized pattern of "market norms have standards to follow, public interests have standards to measure, and social governance has standards to follow", and establish a standard system that supports modern government governance.
Making the construction of the standard system a fundamental project for economic and social development
In the past 10 years, Zhejiang Province has steadfastly implemented the standardization strategy, focused on promoting the construction of a "standard strong province", established and improved the standard system and standardization management system, and promoted the deep integration of standardization with various fields and levels of economic and social development.
Explore the construction of a modern industrial standard system and promote the high-end development of industries. Accelerate the improvement of "Made in Zhejiang" standards, release 114 new "Made in Zhejiang" standards, establish a "Made in Zhejiang" standard system, and lead the upgrading of "Made in Zhejiang" quality, efficiency, and efficiency. Vigorously promoting the transformation of traditional block economy into modern industrial clusters, 221 group standards have been formulated and promoted in 121 block industries, and 54000 enterprises have adopted relevant standards. Carry out industry benchmarking and standardization actions, support large-scale industrial enterprises to comprehensively benchmark and adopt standards, and promote the leading product benchmarking rate of relevant enterprises to reach 61.8%. Actively promoting the standardization construction of the "two zones" in agriculture, 127 national demonstration zones and 1074 provincial demonstration zones have been established, and the standardized production level of agriculture in the province has reached 62.2%. Take the lead in building an e-commerce standard system nationwide, formulate and implement a series of e-commerce transaction and regulatory standards, and promote the rapid development of the e-commerce industry.
Explore the construction of a public service standard system and promote equalization of basic public services. Strengthen the formulation and revision of basic public service standards, form 212 relevant local standards, and basically cover key areas of basic public services such as medical and health care, primary and secondary education, etc. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, equal evaluation standards for basic public services will be established in 16 important areas such as education, social security, healthcare, and transportation, and a list of basic public service standards will be improved. A long-term mechanism will be established to promote the continuous improvement of basic public service supply capacity through standardization. Actively carry out pilot projects for administrative approval standardization, optimize the administrative approval process, and promote the standardized operation of administrative approval. Expand the coverage of standards, coordinate urban-rural and regional standards, and promote balanced allocation of public services and resources.
Explore the construction of an environmental protection standard system and promote long-term ecological governance. Promote the construction of ecological civilization through the "Standardization+" action plan, and carry out comprehensive environmental management actions such as "Five Water Co treatment" (treating sewage, flood prevention, drainage, ensuring water supply, and promoting water conservation) and "Three Improvements and One Demolition" (renovating old residential areas, old factory areas, urban villages, and demolishing illegal buildings). Formulate energy consumption quotas and pollutant emission standards, implement 63 local ecological and environmental protection standards, strictly enforce 47 mandatory standards, and form rigid constraints to eliminate outdated production capacity and strengthen environmental governance. Adhering to the promotion of "standardization+energy conservation and emission reduction", a total of 266 industrial and service standardization pilot projects have been implemented in the past 10 years, saving 1.938 million tons of standard coal, 6.655 million cubic meters of water resources, and reducing pollutant emissions by 1.412 million tons. Carry out national standardization demonstration of beautiful rural areas, release and implement the provincial-level standards for the construction of beautiful rural areas, and elevate them to national standards.
Explore the construction of a modern standard governance system and promote the institutionalization of standard supply. Establish a leading group for strengthening the province's standards, revise local standard management methods, and establish a sound standardization promotion system and working mechanism with Zhejiang characteristics. While strengthening the effective supply of standards in the public domain, attention should be paid to stimulating the innovation vitality of enterprise standards and promoting the independent formulation of group standards and enterprise standards by the market. Actively apply for the national standardization comprehensive reform pilot, vigorously implement the "Standardization+" action plan, and plan to build a high-level standard system. Establish a sound mechanism for supervising the implementation of standards, and incorporate standardized indicators into the transformation of economic development mode and the performance assessment of party and government leaders.
Guided by the new development concept, fully implement the standardization strategy
The implementation of the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing is a profound change that affects the overall development of China, and will inevitably lead the transformation of development mode and promote the improvement of development quality and efficiency. To comprehensively and deeply implement the standardization strategy, we should vigorously leverage the guiding role of the new development concept.
Implement the concept of innovative development and promote entrepreneurship and innovation through standardization. Standards are the bridge and link for the industrialization of innovative achievements. Adhere to standard innovation to accelerate innovation driven development, and maximize the catalytic effect of "standardization+" on new technologies, new formats, new models, and new industries. Leading high quality with high standards, and comparing with advanced international and domestic standards, we will develop and implement a high-level standard system with independent intellectual property rights in seven trillion level industries such as information and environmental protection, as well as "historical classics" industries such as tea and celadon. Establish an alliance of intelligent manufacturing standards, and carry out pilot demonstration of standardization in intelligent manufacturing in key fields such as intelligent equipment (products) and industrial Internet (Internet of Things). Establish a standard "leader" system, build a technology standard innovation base, and include the development of important standards in the science and technology research and development plan. Build characteristic towns, science and technology cities, and other regional standard innovation demonstration zones to promote collaborative standard innovation among universities, research institutes, leading enterprises, and industry organizations. Innovative standard transformation mechanism and implementation mechanism, exploring the establishment of "Standard Innovation Fund" and "Standard Innovation Contribution Award", establishing an advanced standard post subsidy mechanism, and incentivizing enterprises to transform innovative achievements and advanced technologies into standards.
Implement the concept of coordinated development and accelerate urban-rural integration development through standardization. Explore the path of standardization construction for urban-rural integration, actively connect with key areas such as urban internationalization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural reform, and solidly carry out pilot projects for standardization of urban-rural integration. We will closely focus on promoting the urbanization of agricultural migrant population and optimizing the layout of urbanization, and carry out standardized pilot projects for new urbanization. Guided by the concept of standardization, we will strengthen the exploration of standardization in areas such as rural collective property rights and rural social governance, carry out national level standardization pilot projects for comprehensive rural reform, and promote the upgrading of standards for "beautiful countryside".
Implement the concept of green development and ensure the achievements of ecological civilization construction through standardization. Adhering to the actions of "Five Waters Co governance", "Three Improvements and One Demolition", "Four Sides and Three Transformations" (carrying out cleaning, greening, and beautification in areas such as highways, railways, rivers, and mountains), establish and improve a standard system for water and gas management, urban and rural management, and soil and mountain management. Deepen the promotion of "standardization+energy conservation and emission reduction", improve the standards for energy consumption, material consumption, water consumption, etc. in industrial access, and force backward production capacity to exit. Carry out pilot projects for the construction of comprehensive ecological functional zones and explore the implementation path of leading ecological civilization construction with standardization. Strengthen the evaluation of energy consumption limit standards for key industries, revise and improve the standard system based on the effectiveness of standard implementation. Promote standardized production and management models for agricultural products, implement standardized demonstration projects such as agricultural circular economy, rural new energy, and soil remediation, and promote standardized agricultural operations and sustainable development.
Implement the concept of open development and promote the internationalization of products, equipment, technology, and services through standardization. Standards promote global connectivity and are conducive to the development of economic globalization. Actively promote standardization cooperation with countries along the "the Belt and Road" and major trading countries, and jointly formulate international standards in advantageous fields; Strengthen mutual recognition of standards with major trading countries (regions) and promote Zhejiang manufacturing to go global. We will make every effort to carry out trade standardization pilot projects such as the China (Hangzhou) Cross border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone and the Yiwu International Trade Comprehensive Reform Pilot, and actively promote the internationalization of cross-border e-commerce and rural e-commerce standards. Deeply participate in international standardization activities, explore the construction of "International Regional Standardization Research Center" and "BRICS Standardization (Zhejiang) Research Center", and promote the upgrading of Zhejiang standards and going global.
Implement the concept of shared development and promote equalization of basic public services through standardization. Starting from addressing the most pressing, direct, and practical interests of the people, we will fill the gaps in people's livelihoods through standardization, improve basic public service standards and systems, promote equal access to basic public services, and optimize the allocation of public resources. Accelerate the standardization process of public services, establish and improve the basic standard system for public education, public culture, public health, urban-rural medical care, and public safety, and ensure the fairness, accessibility, and quality of public services. Deepen the application of standards in the construction of the "Four Lists and One Network" and the reform of "streamlining, managing, and servicing", vigorously promote the standardization construction of the "Government Service Network", and accelerate the standardized operation of administrative approval power. Explore the use of standardized methods to construct a modern social governance system, promote the construction of standardized information platforms for grassroots comprehensive governance, implement demonstration projects for grassroots social governance standardization, and continuously improve grassroots social governance and public services.
Promote development to a new level through standardization strategy
28 Sep, 2025
The standardization system is an important component of the modern national governance system. We must conscientiously implement this important spirit, comprehensively implement the standardization strategy, explore a standardized construction path with Zhejiang characteristics, promote the transformation of governance, production, and lifestyle through standardization, and provide strategic support for achieving higher quality, more efficient, fairer, and more sustainable development.
Implementing standardization strategy is the only way to comprehensively deepen reform and promote modernization of national governance
Standardization is playing an increasingly important role in ensuring product quality and safety, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, improving economic quality and efficiency, and serving foreign trade and diplomacy. In recent years, the rapid development of China's economy and society has put forward higher requirements for the standard system and standardized management system. Implementing a standardization strategy and better leveraging its role in comprehensively deepening reforms and promoting modernization of national governance will contribute to sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress.
Promote standard innovation and support innovation driven development. Throughout human history, every revolutionary change in production tools and methods often leads to the emergence of new standards, which in turn drive social progress. Today, the breadth and depth of standardization profoundly affect the speed and quality of productivity development, and the level of standardization reflects a country or region's innovation capability and even comprehensive strength. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is emerging, and the speed of innovation driven development is getting faster and faster. The rapid diffusion and transfer of innovative achievements through standards have further accelerated the pace of marketization and industrialization, promoting the development of new formats, models, and industries. The comprehensive implementation of standardization strategy means building, sharing, and interconnecting standards to support and promote technological innovation, institutional innovation, industrial innovation, and management innovation, accelerate the promotion of technology patenting, patent standardization, and standard industrialization, and continuously consolidate the foundation of innovative development.
Strengthen standard setting and assist in supply side structural reform. People often say, 'Third rate companies sell products, second rate companies sell brands, and first-class companies sell standards.'. Standards are the passport for products and services to enter the market, representing the discourse power of rules and the high ground of industrial competition. Because of this, many multinational corporations are striving to push their technology onto the international stage, striving to make it an international standard; Some developed countries even spare no effort in using diplomatic, economic, and aid measures to elevate their own standards to international standards. Currently, standards have become a battleground for global manufacturing, international trade, and even the world economy. Those who meet the standards will conquer the world. Whoever holds the standard discourse power will be able to dominate the industry and have market initiative. To better promote the supply side structural reform in China, it is necessary to accelerate and strengthen the formulation and revision of advanced standards while widely adopting international standards. High standards should be used to reduce ineffective and low-end supply, expand effective and high-end supply, improve the ability of the supply system to adapt to demand, and achieve a leap from low-level to high-level supply-demand balance.
Improve standard governance and promote the modernization of government governance capacity. Standards are both the universal language of the world and the law of production. Like laws, regulations, strategies, planning, etc., they are the core elements of modern government governance. Only by integrating the concept and methods of standardization into government governance, promoting the reform of the "four lists and one network" (administrative power list, government responsibility list, investment negative list, financial special fund management list, and government service network) in a standardized manner, strengthening the formulation and implementation of government work standards, and building a system of government functional standards, can we truly promote government governance to enter the track of institutionalization, standardization, and scientification. Fully implementing the standardization strategy, promoting the deep integration of the standardization process into government governance activities, and comprehensively building a government governance standard system will help promote the formation of a standardized pattern of "market norms have standards to follow, public interests have standards to measure, and social governance has standards to follow", and establish a standard system that supports modern government governance.
Making the construction of the standard system a fundamental project for economic and social development
In the past 10 years, Zhejiang Province has steadfastly implemented the standardization strategy, focused on promoting the construction of a "standard strong province", established and improved the standard system and standardization management system, and promoted the deep integration of standardization with various fields and levels of economic and social development.
Explore the construction of a modern industrial standard system and promote the high-end development of industries. Accelerate the improvement of "Made in Zhejiang" standards, release 114 new "Made in Zhejiang" standards, establish a "Made in Zhejiang" standard system, and lead the upgrading of "Made in Zhejiang" quality, efficiency, and efficiency. Vigorously promoting the transformation of traditional block economy into modern industrial clusters, 221 group standards have been formulated and promoted in 121 block industries, and 54000 enterprises have adopted relevant standards. Carry out industry benchmarking and standardization actions, support large-scale industrial enterprises to comprehensively benchmark and adopt standards, and promote the leading product benchmarking rate of relevant enterprises to reach 61.8%. Actively promoting the standardization construction of the "two zones" in agriculture, 127 national demonstration zones and 1074 provincial demonstration zones have been established, and the standardized production level of agriculture in the province has reached 62.2%. Take the lead in building an e-commerce standard system nationwide, formulate and implement a series of e-commerce transaction and regulatory standards, and promote the rapid development of the e-commerce industry.
Explore the construction of a public service standard system and promote equalization of basic public services. Strengthen the formulation and revision of basic public service standards, form 212 relevant local standards, and basically cover key areas of basic public services such as medical and health care, primary and secondary education, etc. During the 12th Five Year Plan period, equal evaluation standards for basic public services will be established in 16 important areas such as education, social security, healthcare, and transportation, and a list of basic public service standards will be improved. A long-term mechanism will be established to promote the continuous improvement of basic public service supply capacity through standardization. Actively carry out pilot projects for administrative approval standardization, optimize the administrative approval process, and promote the standardized operation of administrative approval. Expand the coverage of standards, coordinate urban-rural and regional standards, and promote balanced allocation of public services and resources.
Explore the construction of an environmental protection standard system and promote long-term ecological governance. Promote the construction of ecological civilization through the "Standardization+" action plan, and carry out comprehensive environmental management actions such as "Five Water Co treatment" (treating sewage, flood prevention, drainage, ensuring water supply, and promoting water conservation) and "Three Improvements and One Demolition" (renovating old residential areas, old factory areas, urban villages, and demolishing illegal buildings). Formulate energy consumption quotas and pollutant emission standards, implement 63 local ecological and environmental protection standards, strictly enforce 47 mandatory standards, and form rigid constraints to eliminate outdated production capacity and strengthen environmental governance. Adhering to the promotion of "standardization+energy conservation and emission reduction", a total of 266 industrial and service standardization pilot projects have been implemented in the past 10 years, saving 1.938 million tons of standard coal, 6.655 million cubic meters of water resources, and reducing pollutant emissions by 1.412 million tons. Carry out national standardization demonstration of beautiful rural areas, release and implement the provincial-level standards for the construction of beautiful rural areas, and elevate them to national standards.
Explore the construction of a modern standard governance system and promote the institutionalization of standard supply. Establish a leading group for strengthening the province's standards, revise local standard management methods, and establish a sound standardization promotion system and working mechanism with Zhejiang characteristics. While strengthening the effective supply of standards in the public domain, attention should be paid to stimulating the innovation vitality of enterprise standards and promoting the independent formulation of group standards and enterprise standards by the market. Actively apply for the national standardization comprehensive reform pilot, vigorously implement the "Standardization+" action plan, and plan to build a high-level standard system. Establish a sound mechanism for supervising the implementation of standards, and incorporate standardized indicators into the transformation of economic development mode and the performance assessment of party and government leaders.
Guided by the new development concept, fully implement the standardization strategy
The implementation of the new development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing is a profound change that affects the overall development of China, and will inevitably lead the transformation of development mode and promote the improvement of development quality and efficiency. To comprehensively and deeply implement the standardization strategy, we should vigorously leverage the guiding role of the new development concept.
Implement the concept of innovative development and promote entrepreneurship and innovation through standardization. Standards are the bridge and link for the industrialization of innovative achievements. Adhere to standard innovation to accelerate innovation driven development, and maximize the catalytic effect of "standardization+" on new technologies, new formats, new models, and new industries. Leading high quality with high standards, and comparing with advanced international and domestic standards, we will develop and implement a high-level standard system with independent intellectual property rights in seven trillion level industries such as information and environmental protection, as well as "historical classics" industries such as tea and celadon. Establish an alliance of intelligent manufacturing standards, and carry out pilot demonstration of standardization in intelligent manufacturing in key fields such as intelligent equipment (products) and industrial Internet (Internet of Things). Establish a standard "leader" system, build a technology standard innovation base, and include the development of important standards in the science and technology research and development plan. Build characteristic towns, science and technology cities, and other regional standard innovation demonstration zones to promote collaborative standard innovation among universities, research institutes, leading enterprises, and industry organizations. Innovative standard transformation mechanism and implementation mechanism, exploring the establishment of "Standard Innovation Fund" and "Standard Innovation Contribution Award", establishing an advanced standard post subsidy mechanism, and incentivizing enterprises to transform innovative achievements and advanced technologies into standards.
Implement the concept of coordinated development and accelerate urban-rural integration development through standardization. Explore the path of standardization construction for urban-rural integration, actively connect with key areas such as urban internationalization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural reform, and solidly carry out pilot projects for standardization of urban-rural integration. We will closely focus on promoting the urbanization of agricultural migrant population and optimizing the layout of urbanization, and carry out standardized pilot projects for new urbanization. Guided by the concept of standardization, we will strengthen the exploration of standardization in areas such as rural collective property rights and rural social governance, carry out national level standardization pilot projects for comprehensive rural reform, and promote the upgrading of standards for "beautiful countryside".
Implement the concept of green development and ensure the achievements of ecological civilization construction through standardization. Adhering to the actions of "Five Waters Co governance", "Three Improvements and One Demolition", "Four Sides and Three Transformations" (carrying out cleaning, greening, and beautification in areas such as highways, railways, rivers, and mountains), establish and improve a standard system for water and gas management, urban and rural management, and soil and mountain management. Deepen the promotion of "standardization+energy conservation and emission reduction", improve the standards for energy consumption, material consumption, water consumption, etc. in industrial access, and force backward production capacity to exit. Carry out pilot projects for the construction of comprehensive ecological functional zones and explore the implementation path of leading ecological civilization construction with standardization. Strengthen the evaluation of energy consumption limit standards for key industries, revise and improve the standard system based on the effectiveness of standard implementation. Promote standardized production and management models for agricultural products, implement standardized demonstration projects such as agricultural circular economy, rural new energy, and soil remediation, and promote standardized agricultural operations and sustainable development.
Implement the concept of open development and promote the internationalization of products, equipment, technology, and services through standardization. Standards promote global connectivity and are conducive to the development of economic globalization. Actively promote standardization cooperation with countries along the "the Belt and Road" and major trading countries, and jointly formulate international standards in advantageous fields; Strengthen mutual recognition of standards with major trading countries (regions) and promote Zhejiang manufacturing to go global. We will make every effort to carry out trade standardization pilot projects such as the China (Hangzhou) Cross border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone and the Yiwu International Trade Comprehensive Reform Pilot, and actively promote the internationalization of cross-border e-commerce and rural e-commerce standards. Deeply participate in international standardization activities, explore the construction of "International Regional Standardization Research Center" and "BRICS Standardization (Zhejiang) Research Center", and promote the upgrading of Zhejiang standards and going global.
Implement the concept of shared development and promote equalization of basic public services through standardization. Starting from addressing the most pressing, direct, and practical interests of the people, we will fill the gaps in people's livelihoods through standardization, improve basic public service standards and systems, promote equal access to basic public services, and optimize the allocation of public resources. Accelerate the standardization process of public services, establish and improve the basic standard system for public education, public culture, public health, urban-rural medical care, and public safety, and ensure the fairness, accessibility, and quality of public services. Deepen the application of standards in the construction of the "Four Lists and One Network" and the reform of "streamlining, managing, and servicing", vigorously promote the standardization construction of the "Government Service Network", and accelerate the standardized operation of administrative approval power. Explore the use of standardized methods to construct a modern social governance system, promote the construction of standardized information platforms for grassroots comprehensive governance, implement demonstration projects for grassroots social governance standardization, and continuously improve grassroots social governance and public services.