China 12 National CCUS Standards Package (2026)

On January 8, 2026 the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) via its National Standardization Administration approved 12 national CCUS standards effective July 1, 2026, covering capture, transport, storage, terminology and emission-reduction accounting across the full chain. Storage is governed by GB/T 46878-2025 (geological storage, identical to ISO 27914:2017: site screening and selection, capacity evaluation, injection scheme design, risk management, project management); transport by GB/T 46875-2025 (quality of CO2 entering long-distance pipelines: indicators, sampling, testing, inspection); foundations by GB/T 46872-2025 (vocabulary, identical to ISO 27917:2017, fixing accounting boundaries and procedures) and GB/T 46879-2025 (project-level GHG reduction assessment). The package adds GB/T 46877 (post-combustion systems), 46871 (CO2-EOR storage, identical to ISO 27916:2019), 46870.1/.2 (capture performance evaluation), 46876 (capture facility operation), 46880 (storage test methods) and 46874/46873 (offshore saline-aquifer capacity and site assessment). Five of the twelve are identical adoptions of ISO standards, under SAC/TC207 with drafting by CAS institutes, China Geological Survey units, grid and energy groups. Foreign observers (SESEC) read the release as moving the Chinese CCUS market from rules-pending to rules-transparent.