On April 10, 2018, the 2018 Sino-British Standardization Cooperation Committee Meeting and Sino-British Standardization Organization Bilateral Talks were held in Hangzhou

The Sino-British Graphene and Smart City Standardization Working Group gave a briefing on the work at the meeting. The meeting followed up on the progress of Sino-British standard cooperation in the field of civil nuclear energy. In-depth discussions on cooperation issues such as standardization and management experience exchange of the Standardization Technical Committee. Tian Shihong, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation and Director of the National Standardization Administration, and Scott Steadman, President of BSI Standards, signed the "2018 China-UK Standardization Cooperation Committee Meeting Resolution" and witnessed the "China-UK Smart City Standardization Cooperation" Framework's signature. On April 11, representatives from China and the UK went to Alibaba Group and Hangzhou National E-Commerce Product Quality Monitoring and Disposal Center to conduct on-site work exchanges.

Chen Hongjun, deputy director of the National Standards Committee, and Scott Steadman, president of BSI Standards, co-chaired the meeting and delivered speeches. Chen Xinhua, vice mayor of Hangzhou, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Nearly 70 representatives from the relevant departments of the National Standards Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the British Embassy, ​​the China-Britain Business Association, local governments, related industries and research institutions attended the meeting.