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Chinese National Standards

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This article is about the national standard|national standards of the Republic of China based in Taiwan. See also Guobiao for the National Standards of the People's Republic of China.
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The national standard|national standards of the Republic of China administering Taiwan, Pescadores, Quemoy and Matsu are titled the Chinese National Standards (CNS) (中國國家標準). They are administered by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. These standards are divided into 26 numbered categories. Applying the National Standards is voluntary unless authorities in charge cite any parts of the standards as laws and regulations. By the end of 2003, more than 15000 national standards have been issued. Although the Republic of China was removed in 1950 from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for failure to pay membership dues accordingly, there are still many National Standards translated from ISO standards into Chinese. A few standards also have English versions, but in case of any divergence of interpretation, the Chinese text shall prevail.

Because the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China can both be abbreviated as China, the Chinese National Standards may also literally mean the Guobiao|National Standards of the People's Republic of China. However, the Republic of China has no plan to change the name "Chinese National Standards" yet. Confusions may arise in Chinese language.

Each standard has a general number and may be prefixed "CNS", such as CNS 11296. The general numbers, English names and any similar ISO standards of some standards are listed below:
General numberEnglish nameSimilar ISO standard
ISO 216
5205 Information Technology-7 Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange ISO 646|ISO/IEC 646
7648 Data Elements and Interchange Formats -- Information Interchange -- Representation of Dates and Times ISO 8601
7654 Information technology -- Character code structure and extension techniques ISO 2022|ISO/IEC 2022
7656 Information processing -- ISO 8-bit code for information interchange - Structure and rules for implementation ISO 4873|ISO/IEC 4873
8381 Information Interchange -- Representation of Human Sexes ISO 5218
10987 The International System of Units (SI) ISO 1000
11296 General Principles Concerning Quantities, Units and Symbols ISO 31
11643 Chinese Standard Interchange Code (for Generally Used Chinese Characters)
12680 Quality management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary ISO 9000
12842 Codes for the Representation of Names of Country|Countries ISO 3166
12864 Documentation - International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) ISO 2108
12873 Codes for the Representation of Currency|Currencies and Funds ISO 4217
13188 Code for the Representation of Names of Languages ISO 639
13246 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1 ISO 8859-1|ISO/IEC 8859-1
13247 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2 ISO 8859-2|ISO/IEC 8859-2
13325 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3 ISO 8859-3|ISO/IEC 8859-3
13326 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4 ISO 8859-4|ISO/IEC 8859-4
13327 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 5: Latin / Cyrillic alphabet ISO 8859-5|ISO/IEC 8859-5
13328 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5 ISO 8859-9|ISO/IEC 8859-9
13384 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 6: Latin / Arabic alphabet ISO 8859-6|ISO/IEC 8859-6
13385 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 7: Latin / Greek alphabet ISO 8859-7|ISO/IEC 8859-7
13386 Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 8: Latin / Hebrew alphabet ISO 8859-8|ISO/IEC 8859-8
13524 Standard Representation of Latitude, Longitude and Altitude for Geographic Point Locations ISO 6709
13611 Bibliographic References: Content, Form and Structure ISO 690
14001 Environmental Management Systems -- Specification with Guidance for Use ISO 14001
14649 Information Technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) ISO/IEC 10646



  • Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection: http://www.bsmi.gov.tw

  • CNS On-line: http://www.cnsonline.com.tw/CNS_EN/index.html


Category:Standards
category:Republic of China
zh:中國國家標準

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Last Modified:   2005-11-04


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