China - Germany Standards Information Portal

The German-Chinese Joint Committee of Industry and Trade was founded in 1979 and is referred to as a "joint" committee because its regular participants include representatives not only from the two governments but also from both national industries (associations as well as individual companies). Under the leadership of the respective ministers, the Committee meets every year, alternating between venues in Germany and China, and is the most important coordinating body of the German Ministry of Economics and China's Ministry of Commerce. The Committee's main objective is to promote trade between the two nations, intensify their investment relations and strengthen technology transfer between the partners. Several working groups have been set up to address specific issues in greater detail, such as trade, investments, legal issues, coal, trade statistics and standardisation.

The aim of the Working Group Standardisation of the German-Chinese Joint Committee of Industry and Trade is to expand German-Chinese cooperation in standardization, facilitate bilateral trade, and remove existing barriers to trade. Since the first meeting in July 2006 at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, the Working Group has met alternately in Germany and China.

The WG Standardisation expressly welcomes the development of this new DIN-SAC standards portal, which is supported by links from the official websites of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). The six searchable subsections of the site focus on areas for which the Group sees an urgent need for standardization, namely energy efficiency, ultra-high voltage, nanotechnology, sensory analysis, food safety, and product properties.