Qingdao plays an increasingly important role in the building of China’s national system of standards. According to the statistics by the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Market Regulation, Qingdao presided over or participated in the formulation and revision of 116 national standards in the first quarter of 2025, increasing by 69 year on year, and played a part in 16.8% of 688 national standards published by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standardization Administration in the first quarter, six percentage points up from the previous year.

Since the beginning of this year, in an effort to build the “10+1” innovation-driven industry system, Qingdao has been adopting higher standards to seek transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, working harder to formulate new standards to boost emerging industries, taking a forward-looking approach to enact standards to study, cultivate and plan for future-oriented industries, advancing the integration between sci-tech innovations and the building of a standard-led modern industrial system, seeking improvements in the quality of products and services, moving faster to cultivate and develop new quality productive forces, and contributing its share to advancing Chinese modernization with technical standards.  (Wu Shuai)