On 13 March,9 ministries jointly published the Action Plan, aiming to improve the quality of new material products and services via standardisation.

10 actions were put forward in the plan, including building up the new material industry’s standard system, developing pilotage standards of new materials, optimizing standard supply, promoting the coordinated development of standards, technology and industry, developing the assessment standards of new material, innovating the standard development mechanism, facilitating the military standards to be harmonized with civil standards, promoting new material standards to “go global”, carrying out standard application demonstration, and constructing standardisation information platform.