On September 1, 2026, 59 mandatory national standards and 375 recommended national standards came into effect in China. According to the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the new standards cover areas including household appliances, intelligent robot control systems, smart-terminal software platforms and e-commerce. The following are several standards highlighted by SAMR that may be relevant to manufacturers and other stakeholders operating in these sectors.

Health, Energy Saving and Environmental Requirements for Household Appliances

Two new mandatory national standards introduce requirements concerning health protection, energy saving and environmental performance for household and similar electrical appliances.

GB 44498-2024 Household and Similar Electrical Appliances—Health Technical Specification specifies general health-related technical requirements for household and similar electrical appliances. It covers indicators including ultraviolet radiation leakage, noise, electromagnetic fields, ozone leakage and total volatile organic compound concentrations, as well as requirements for health-protection functions, marking and instructions. The official English title is published in China’s National Standard Information Public Service Platform.

GB 44499-2024 Household and Similar Electrical Appliances—Energy Saving and Environment Protection Specification establishes general principles for energy saving and environmental protection. It includes requirements covering different lifecycle stages, including production, installation, recycling and reuse, as well as energy-saving and environmental requirements for the products themselves.

Together, the two mandatory standards provide technical requirements relevant to product design, manufacturing, use and end-of-life treatment, with a focus on health protection, energy efficiency and environmental performance.

General Framework for Intelligent Robot Control Systems

GB/T 47245-2026 General Framework for Intelligent Control System of Robot is a recommended national standard that establishes the overall architecture of intelligent robot control systems. It defines the logical architecture and major functions of the hardware layer, operating system layer, middleware layer and algorithm layer.

The standard is intended to provide a common technical framework for the development and application of intelligent robot control systems. Its official English title is General framework for intelligent control system of robot.

Technical Requirements for Smart-Terminal Operating Systems

GB/T 34980.1-2026 Technical Requirement for Smart Terminal Software Platform—Part 1: Operating System is also a recommended national standard. It specifies the operating-system framework for smart-terminal software platforms and establishes requirements for the kernel, libraries, runtime environment, services, software development kits, system configuration and management, common tools and security.

The standard provides a technical framework intended to improve the performance and operability of smart-terminal software platforms.

National Standards for E-Commerce Product Information

A series of recommended national standards also took effect for describing products and services in e-commerce transactions.

GB/T 47600.1-2026 Information Description of Product for E-Commerce Transaction—Part 1: General establishes basic requirements, description methods, information composition and information-extension methods for e-commerce product information.

Three additional parts establish information-description requirements and methods for specific areas:

-   GB/T 47600.2-2026 Information Description of Product for E-Commerce Transaction—Part 2: Tourism Service;

-   GB/T 47600.3-2026 Information Description of Product for E-Commerce Transaction—Part 3: Household Products;

-   GB/T 47600.4-2026 Information Description of Product for E-Commerce Transaction—Part 4: Home Building Materials.

In addition, GB/T 34051-2026 Evaluation Guidelines for the Public Reputation Index of Electronic Commerce Commodity specifies basic principles, evaluation indicators, evaluation data, procedures and results for assessing the public reputation index of products sold through e-commerce channels.

These e-commerce standards provide more standardized approaches to digital product-information description and product-reputation evaluation for tourism services, household products and home building materials. 

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