Sponsored by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), the China Medical Device Standards Forum was held in Beijing on Oct 14, the 52nd World Standards Day.

With the theme "Better standards make for higher-quality medical devices", the forum aimed to further promote the concept of medical device standardization and give better play to the supporting role of standards in facilitating medical device regulation and the high-quality development of related industries.

In recent years, the NMPA has made continuous efforts to deepen the reform and innovation of medical device standardization, improve the legal system for medical device standards and advance plans to upgrade standards for medical devices.

Currently there are 1,835 medical device standards in China, which cover almost all the professional and technical fields.

At the forum, the China Association for Medical Devices Industry announced the first group of 10 model enterprises for the implementation of medical device standards.

On the same day, the 7th International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) International Medical Device Standards Forum with the theme "medical device standards in the era of innovation, science and technology" was held in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province.