CURRENT SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE STANDARDS ON REFRACTORY PRODUCTS

China is the biggest manufacturing country of refractories in the world. In order to standardize the production and trade, China has established a complete and complicated standard system for refractory products including national standards and industrial standards. The industrial standards include metallurgical standards (YB), building materials standards (JC), nonferrous standards (YS), electric power standards (DL), etc. In recent years, Chinese standards of refractory products have changed a lot along with the entrance of foreign refractory companies into China and the development of refractory product export. The current status and developing trend of Chinese standards on refractory products were introduced.