Introduction The Chinese Institute for Standardization was informed that, as at 31 December 2021, more than 350,000 enterprises had publicized over 2.15 million business standards. Nearly 1,000 business standards were selected in the country’s millions of business standards as “sailors”. The analysis shows that these enterprise-based “people” standards require higher indicators than national standards, mostly targeting the highest global standards and levels. In 2018, the Opinion on the Imple...