China's State Administration for Market Regulation has launched the 2026
quality-strong-chain top-10 landmark projects and will roll out 166 targeted R&D
tasks. The program aims to precisely fill urgent gaps in key fields and
strengthen quality support for priority industries, continuing focus on high-end
instruments, new energy and industrial robots while expanding into embodied
intelligent robots and solid-state power batteries and adding industrial machines
tools, drones and advanced synthetic biology manufacturing. Work will coordinate
standards, metrology, testing and accreditation across the full
quality-infrastructure chain and priority strategic, frontier and practical
outcomes.