China has approved the release of more than 600 national standards for clean energy such as hydropower, photovoltaics, etc.

China News Service, Beijing, October 14 (Reporter Liu Liang) China's State Administration for Market Regulation announced on the 14th that China has approved the release of more than 600 national standards for clean energy such as hydropower, photovoltaic, solar thermal, and hydrogen energy.

October 14th is the 57th World Standards Day. The theme of this year’s World Standards Day is “A Shared Vision for a Better World: Focusing on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.” On the same day, four departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly held a World Standards Day themed event in Beijing.

According to reports, China is currently the world's largest energy producer and consumer. The development of clean energy industries such as wind power, photovoltaic, nuclear energy, and ultra-high voltage is at the forefront of the world. Standardization work has played an important supporting role. At present, China has approved the release of more than 600 national standards for clean energy such as hydropower, photovoltaic, solar thermal, and hydrogen energy, more than 1,300 group standards, and 345 foreign language versions of national standards.

At the same time, China took the lead in formulating and publishing 174 international energy standards, accounting for about 15% of the published international energy standards. China also serves as the secretariat of 10 technical agencies of international standards organizations, including solar energy and mechanical energy storage, and serves as the convener of 34 working groups, making positive contributions to strengthening international cooperation in energy standards and promoting global green transformation.

At the theme event, the official list of Chinese experts who won awards from the International Standards Organization was announced, a batch of national standards for clean energy were released, and the "Practice of Transforming Scientific and Technological Achievements into Standardization in the Field of New and Renewable Energy" and the "China Hydrogen Energy Industry Standardization Blue Book (2026)" were announced.

Relevant content of the "China Hydrogen Energy Industry Standardization Blue Book (2026)" shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's hydrogen energy standardization work has achieved leapfrog development: a total of 89 hydrogen energy national standards have been released, an increase of about 2.4 times compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period; as of August 2026, there are 180 currently valid hydrogen energy national standards, and more than 100 are being formulated. The standard chain has run through the entire hydrogen energy industry chain of "production-storage-transmission-use".