The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that from January to February this year, my country issued 13 new national standards in the field of large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods trade-in; as of now, of the 294 national standards formulated and revised in the "two new" fields in 2024 and 2025, a total of 185 have been issued.
Specifically, in terms of equipment updates, 85 national standards such as energy consumption limits, equipment energy efficiency, pollutants and carbon emissions have been issued to support industrial transformation and upgrading. In terms of exchanging consumer goods for new products, 57 national standards for home appliances, home furnishings, automobiles, kitchen and bathroom utensils have been issued to ensure the quality and safety of consumer goods. In terms of recycling and recycling, 43 national standards have been issued, including waste automotive power batteries, waste electrical and electronic products, and retired photovoltaic module recycling, supporting the high-level recycling of waste product equipment.
It is reported that in order to conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, on January 5, 2025, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance issued the "Notice on the Implementation of Large-scale Equipment Updates and Consumer Products Exchange Policy in 2025", and worked with relevant departments to speed up the issuance of implementation rules in different fields, timely issue ultra-long-term special treasury bond funds, and accelerate the implementation of the "two new" policy of increasing the expansion of the "two new" policy. (Reporter Wei Yukun)
