A major special project for technology standards, jointly initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and the Standardization Administration of China, won applauds on February 26, 2006. Thanks to more than three-year efforts, the special project has produced 31 international standards, 816 national standards, 175 testing methods, 538 reports, 51 monographs, 1113 papers, 406 patent applications (312 grants), 72 new products, 80 new technologies and techniques, and 13 new materials. It also developed some 20 standardization information service systems, and nearly a hundred demonstration bases. The efforts produced a standardization contingent working at different levels.

In an effort to address major strategic issues concerning China?痵 standardizations, the special project defined objectives and steps for such development, and worked out solutions for establishing a new national technology standard system. It also laid out future orientations for developing China?痵 standardizations. These efforts have spurred up China?痵 reform and improvement in the area.

In the high-tech area, proprietary innovation is encouraged to have China?痵 own research and technology standards, in an attempt to safeguard the national interests.  It also stresses to establish China?痵 own development initiatives in selected industries, so as to promote the optimized restructuring of China?痵 industries, and uplift their proprietary innovations capacity.

In the area of agriculture, technology standards is taken as a tie to make township enterprises turn agricultural production into an intensive and industrial process, transferring the traditional agriculture into an ecological friendly and highly efficient process, promoting the transformation of growth modes in agriculture, and raising the comprehensive competitiveness of rural areas. In other areas involving new energy, energy efficiency, environmental protection, and health, new technical standards also play a positive role in building a harmonized society.