Further Improve The Existing Cotton Standards And Related Technical Specifications

Since the reform and opening up, China's cotton standards have been revised two times.

The first revision was in July 2, 1999, the national quality and Technical Supervision Bureau approved the release of GB1103 - 1999 with the approval letter [1999]99 of quality technical supervision.

In order to meet the needs of cotton production, circulation and textile development in September 2003, the State Council approved the "cotton quality inspection system reform plan".

The main contents are: carrying out notarization inspection in the processing links; carrying out instrumented scientific examination with the rapid testing instrument; setting up the quality standard for testing cotton by instruments; adopting the universal cotton bag type; regulating the weight of the cotton bags; carrying out the information by package coding; developing the cotton specialized storage; and reforming the notarization inspection management system.

In order to put the cotton quality inspection system reform plan in place and ensure the smooth implementation of the reform, relevant departments of the state attach great importance to this work.

To this end, in 2007, the State Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine and the State Administration of standardization approved the issuance of the national mandatory standard for GB1103 - 2007 cotton fine staple cotton and implemented in September 1, 2007.

The introduction of this standard marks a leap from sensory testing to instrumental testing.

It is based on China's national conditions, takes full account of the current situation of cotton production and circulation, and actively connects with the international market to meet the demand of textile enterprises for cotton use, and points out the direction for the reform of cotton quality inspection system.