Standardization Administration of China (SAC)
27. February 2023The Standardization Administration of China is the state standardisation authority of the People’s Republic of China. It was founded in April 2001 and authorised by the State Council to take over the unification, supervision and coordination of the Chinese standardisation system. SAC represents China as a member of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and other international and regional standardisation organisations. Furthermore, the SAC is responsible for organising activities of the Chinese National Council for ISO and IEC.
The SAC approves and plans the implementation of cross-state cooperation and exchange projects in standards. The SAC headquarters is located in Haidan District in the capital Beijing. As part of an administrative reform in 2018, a new “super-authority” was created in the form of the State Market Regulatory Agency SAMR. Nevertheless, both the SAC and the certification and accreditation authority CNCA retained their position and remained in place. In recent years, the SAC has increasingly published standards in the field of solar energy, environmental protection and energy saving. The SAC standards are fundamentally divided into two categories: mandatory GB standards for health, safety and security, and recommended GB/T standards for the remaining use cases.
