Safety enters as a standards module: evaluation metrics and benchmark criteria inside the formal standards apparatus rather than a policy narrative of its own.
Evaluation InstitutionChina
China Electronics Standardization Institute
中国电子技术标准化研究院
The standards institute where China's formal AI standards get drafted: secretariat unit for the national AI subcommittee, publisher of a general large-model evaluation standard, and builder of the first AI national-standard benchmark system.
Importance
Assessed per aspect, band 0 to 3. There is no composite score.
Regulatory authoritynot assessed
Standards influence
3 · central
CESI is the secretariat unit for the national AI standards subcommittee and released both a general large-model evaluation standard and the Qiusuo national-standard benchmark system.
Technical capacity
2 · established
Its Qiusuo benchmark system ships concrete evaluation tools, including AISBench and LMBench.
officialcesi-qiusuo-benchmark-2024
Convening powernot assessed
International interfacenot assessed
What safety means here
Leadership
No leadership roles are recorded with a verifiable source.
History
- 2018-01-19
Publishes the AI subcommittee page identifying its secretariat role.
- 2020-08-04
SAC organization record confirms CESI as secretariat unit of TC28/SC42.
- 2024-10-16
General large-model evaluation standard released.
- 2024-11-26
Qiusuo, described as the first AI national-standard evaluation benchmark system, released.
Connections
Recorded edges place CESI as connective tissue: affiliated with MIIT, secretariat for TC28/SC42, and operationally tied to TC260. analyst judgment
Affiliated With
- Ministry of Industry and Information Technology CESI's official basic-information page states that it is directly under MIIT.
- AI Subcommittee of the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee Official standards-administration and CESI pages both place the secretariat of SAC/TC28/SC42 at CESI.
- National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee TC260 shows an operational affiliation with CESI through its secretary-general placement and homepage contact-location signals, though the retrieved sources stop short of a formal administrative-subordination statement.
Selected outputs
Engagement fit
Assessmentanalyst judgment
- Plausible for
- Standards drafting and benchmark-method exchange, where the currency is test criteria rather than policy positions.
- Constrained by
- It drafts and hosts secretariats; adoption and enforcement decisions sit above it.
Open questions
- Current institute leadership is not recorded; no verifiable source in the collected set names it.
Source appendix (6 records)
- tc28-sc42-samr-org-page
Organization Details for SAC TC28 SC42 AI Subcommittee · Standardization Administration of China · 2020-08-04open
- cesi-general-large-model-evaluation-standard-2024
General Large-Model Evaluation Standard Officially Released · China Electronics Standardization Institute · 2024-10-16open
- cesi-qiusuo-benchmark-2024
The First AI National-Standard Evaluation Benchmark System Qiúsuǒ Is Officially Released · China Electronics Standardization Institute · 2024-11-26open
- tc28-sc42-cesi-page
Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee of the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee · China Electronics Standardization Institute · 2018-01-19open
- report-china-standards-evaluation-2026-06-05
China Standards and Evaluation Research Brief · Asia AI Safety Atlas research brief
- cesi-basic-info
CESI Basic Information · China Electronics Standardization Institute · unknownopen
Last verified 2026-07-07