Beijing Development Plan for Standardizing the Protection of Cultural Heritage (2014–2020)

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Notes

Standard: A normative document unanimously formulated upon consultation as well as approved and commonly and repetitively used by publicly acknowledged institutions for the sake of obtaining the best order within a given domain. The standards should be based on the comprehensive results of science, technology, and experience and for the purpose of promoting the best common benefit.

Standardization: Acts of formulating commonly and repetitively used provisions with regard to actual and potential problems for the sake of obtaining the best order within a given domain. Standardization involves the processes of compilation of standard documents, solicitation of opinions, approval and issuance, and implementation.

Standard system: This is the formation of a scientific and organic corpus of standards within a given domain and on the basis of their inherent relations. This system includes various standards that actually exist, are being formulated, and that should be formulated, and promotes within a given domain the standards that constitute a means that tends to achieve the most scientific and the most rational outcome.

Vocational standards: Standards formulated, approved, and publicly issued by certain national vocations, which lacked national standards yet needed unified technical requirements within the domains of certain nationwide professions.

Standards that had been publicly issued by national standard agencies and that needed to be unified nationwide.

Mandatory standards: Standards for safeguarding physical health and physical and financial security for which the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and rules stipulate compulsory implementation are mandatory standards. Mandatory standards are divided into mandatory documents and mandatory clauses. Other standards serve as recommendations.

Local standards: These are standards publicly issued in a certain locality of a country and addressing lack of national standards or vocational standards in places where unified technical requirements are needed within the scope of a province, autonomous region, or directly administered municipality.

Technical standards: These refer to standards formulated to meet the needs of regulation and coordination of technical matters.

Administrative standards: These refer to standards formulated to meet the needs of regulation and coordination of administrative matters.

Fundamental standards: These refer to the definitions of all the fundamental aspects that must be involved in all standards, and include main names and terminology, levels and classifications, and diagrams, symbols, and signs, and so forth.