National Standards of the People's Republic of China

Guidance technical documents are prefixed with "GB/Z", but are not legally part of the national standard system.

[6] Under the first clause of Article 5 of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, compulsory standards are not copyrightable as they fall under "other documents of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature".

In 1999, the Supreme People's Court ruled that although compulsory standards do not enjoy copyright protections, publishing houses can be given exclusive, sui generis rights to publish a compulsory standard.

The availability is broken down as follows (as of October 2023):[5] Copies of standards (written in simplified Chinese) may be obtained from the SPC web store.

[8] A non-exhaustive list of National Standards of the People's Republic of China is listed as follows, accompanied with similar international standards of ISO, marked as identical (IDT), equivalent (EQV), or non-equivalent (NEQ).