NHC released '14th 5-year plan on health standardisation', specifying 

• background 
  • founded National Health Standards Committee in 2019 with sub-committees focusing on 21 areas 
  • released 597 health standards in the last five years 
  • founded 17 regional health standards committees
  • nearly 100 associations released over 1,000 group standards 
• general requirements 
  • guiding thought 
  • basic principles 
  • goals by 2025  
    • building a health standardisation system with Chinese characteristics to aid the development of Healthy China 
    • improving standardisation system to have
      • wider application
      • contributions from multiple parties 
      • more international influence 
• main tasks 
  • improving standards system 
    • building a general standards system centred on population health 
    • coordinating the development of national, industry, local and group standards 
    • drafting no fewer than 100 health standards by 2025  
  • improving whole process management of standards 
    • ensuring basic standards are supported by research and data 
    • strengthening training for personnel drafting standards 
    • shortening standards drafting time by 6 months 
    • ensuring implementation of compulsory standards by conducting evaluation of no fewer than 50 important standards 
  • promoting regional standards 
    • building a local standardisation system in all provinces by 2025 
  • encouraging group and industry standards from social organisations 
  • improving internationalisation of standards 
    • tracking international standards and applying those which are appropriate for China 
    • promoting domestic standards abroad to co-build international health standards system 
  • increasing awareness and proactiveness to use standards 
• key areas 
  • a strong public health system 
    • prevention-focused standards on major transmittable, parasitic and local diseases 
    • other standards on 
      • chronic diseases 
      • mental and psychiatric health 
      • disease prevention labs 
      • public health emergencies 
      • infrastructure for transmittable diseases
  • medical and health service high-quality development 
    • standards for
      • county hospitals and grassroots medical institutions 
      • day services and interdisciplinary treatment and diagnosis 
      • hospital digitalisation 
      • clinical examination 
      • infection control 
      • first-aid 
      • pharmaceutical standards 
  • better health of key populations 
    • birth and pregnancy 
    • child and infant care 
    • myopia, obesity and nutrition for children and adolescents 
    • occupational health 
    • aged care 
    • dietary and nutritional guidance 
  • innovative health development 
    • adapting standards to new digital industries and technologies 
    • improving six types of information standards, above all in digital health records and patient history 
  • safety development 
    • standards for 
      • lab and biosecurity safety 
      • infrastructure for health institutions security and safety