Starting October 1, China will implement 254 national standards, comprising 6 mandatory and 248 recommended standards.

These standards cover multiple areas including production process safety, optical radiation safety, dip coating safety, urban heating, spent lithium battery recycling, sanitary ceramics, and exhibition venues.

Three Mandatory Standards Target Production Safety Pain Points

The Basic Requirements for Production Process Safety (GB 12801—2025) specifies general requirements for objectives and risk management, site selection and layout, buildings, processes and production equipment, materials and storage/transportation, and electrical systems, while detailing technical safety measures for fire and explosion prevention, dust and poison control, electric shock prevention, crane injury prevention, and fall prevention.

For enterprises, this means safety management shifts from "post-incident remediation" to "full-process design," helping reduce direct losses and shutdown risks caused by equipment damage, casualties, and environmental pollution.

The General Requirements for Optical Radiation Safety (GB 44703—2024) targets laser products and incoherent light products, specifying general requirements for risk classification, labeling, and safety control.

With the rapid expansion of downstream applications such as laser processing, display lighting, and medical aesthetics, optical radiation safety is evolving from a technical indicator to a necessary condition for product market access, and the implementation of this standard will accelerate the elimination of non-compliant low-end production capacity.

The Safety Specification for Dip Coating (GB 17750—2025) focuses on dip coating equipment, electrical and automatic control systems, ventilation and exhaust gas treatment, coating storage and transportation, and operation and maintenance, with emphasis on preventing major accidents in dip coating processes.

After this standard takes effect, investment demand in equipment upgrades and exhaust gas treatment in the coating industry is expected to increase further.

Heating Temperature Quantified to the Degree

The Urban Heating Services (GB/T 33833—2026) recommended national standard, directly related to residents' daily lives, for the first time refines heating temperatures by population group: no less than 18°C for residential bedrooms, living rooms, and offices; no less than 22°C for all rooms used by elderly people in nursing homes; and no less than 20°C for all rooms used by children in childcare institutions.

The standard also covers full-process requirements including heating quality, operation and maintenance, business and information, civilized construction, insurance and claims, and service quality evaluation and improvement.

For heating enterprises, hard temperature targets combined with service quality evaluation mechanisms will push the transition from extensive heating to refined operations, with pressure simultaneously rising on energy consumption management and user complaint assessments; for residents, this winter's heating quality now has a clearer basis for rights protection.

Battery Recycling and Sanitary Ceramics Standards Lead Upgrades

In the circular economy field, the Technical Guidelines for Directional Recycling of Spent Lithium Battery Chemicals (GB/T 47393—2026) specifies basic principles, circular industry chains, types of recyclable resources, recycling pathways, and key technologies for directional recycling.

As retired batteries from new energy vehicles enter a period of large-scale volume growth, the implementation of this standard helps standardize the closed-loop model of "recovery—regeneration—reuse," enhance the supply stability of recycled materials, and provide technical support for enterprises to align with international rules such as carbon footprint and battery passports.

On the consumer side, the Test Method for Antibacterial Performance of Sanitary Ceramics — Fluorescence Method (GB/T 47399—2026) unifies the testing method for antibacterial sanitary ceramics, establishing full-process specifications from reagents and culture media, test strains, to result calculation and test reports.

Unified testing criteria will compress the marketing ambiguity surrounding the "antibacterial" concept and promote the sanitary ceramics industry's transformation toward health-oriented and high-quality development.

Three Standards Revised for the Exhibition Industry

Three recommended national standards related to exhibition venues and exhibitions will be implemented simultaneously: the Guidelines for Exhibition Venue Planning (GB/T 34398—2026) and the Guidelines for Functional Design of Exhibition Venues (GB/T 34395—2026) provide design guidance on site selection and layout, infrastructure, as well as pedestrian flow, vehicle flow, logistics, and information systems; the Specification for Grading and Evaluation of Economic and Trade Exhibitions (GB/T 35659—2026) improves AAAAA-level, AAAA-level, and AAA-level evaluation indicators and procedures from three dimensions: influence, service quality, and management capability.

The improvement of grading evaluation means the brand value of exhibition projects will be more easily quantified and compared, helping guide capital and resources toward high-quality exhibitions, and promoting the exhibition industry's accelerated transformation toward branding, digitalization, and green development.