MIIT Releases Green Manufacturing General Evaluation Principles

On March 13, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the call for comments notice on the General Evaluation Principles for Green Factories (draft), with a deadline of April 8. The draft Principle was initiated and led by MIIT, drafted by China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) and China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), and aims to promote the construction of a green manufacturing system.

In September 2016, MIIT announced that they would carry out green manufacturing system construction, mainly focusing on green factories, green products, green industrial parks and green supply chains. Green manufacturing is critical component in coping with increasing resources utilization efficiency and environment problems and is a strategic task in the implementation of “China Manufacturing 2025”.