The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the P.R.C. and the Standardization Administration of the P.R.C. jointly published the National Standard Announcement No.27 on 31st December, 2013. 7 national standards on printing referred in the Announcement are approved to be promulgated.

The 7 national standards are as follows:

GB/T 9851.8-2013 Terminology of Graphic Technology ― Part 8: Terms for Digital Printing

GB/T 30324-2013 Classification of Digital Printing

GB/T 30325-2013 General Requirement of Hard-Cover Binding

GB/T 30326-2013 General Requirements of Soft-Cover Binding

GB/T 30327-2013 General Specification for Postpress Finishing

GB/T 30328-2013 The Classification of Postpress Finishing Materials

GB/T 30329.1-2013 Graphic Technology ― Color and Transparency of Printing Ink Sets for Four-Color Printing ― Part 1: Sheet-Fed and Heat-Set Web Offset Lithographic Printing

It is learnt that all the above will come into force as from 1^st June, 2014. (Source: The National Technical Committee 170 on Printing of Standardization Administration of China)