On the 28th of July the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People`s Republic of China issued bulletin No.37  which approved 425 industry standards, including eight standards for shoes. The relevant standards are shown below.

No	Standard Code	Standard Name	Standard Scope	Replaced Standard	Effective Date
1	HG/T 4994-2016	Casual Rubber Shoes	This standard applies to casual shoes with rubber outsole	2017-01-01
2	HG/T 4992-2016	Jogging rubber shoes	This standard applies to jogging rubber shoes	2017-01-01
3	HG/T 4996-2016	Weight lifting shoes	This standard is applicable to professional weightlifting training and competition shoes	2017-01-01
4	HG/T 4990-2016	Standard test method for torsion test of rubber shoes	This method is intended to assess the torsional performance of rubber shoes, other non-rubber shoes can reference this standard.	2017-01-01
5	HG/T 4991-2016	Standard test method for Coating elongation of rubber shoes	This method is intended to assess the elongation performance of coatings on the rubber vamp of rubber shoes (boots).	2017-01-01
6	HG/T 4993-2016	Standard Test methods for cellular materials of shoes- Compression set	This method is applicable for cellular materials of shoes.	2017-01-01
7	HG/T 4995-2016	Rubber shoes- Eyelet of sport shoes	This standard is applicable to metal eyelet used on rubber shoes, athletic shoes, the metal eyelet used  other shoes can reference this standard.	2017-01-01
8	HG/T 4997-2016	Standard Test methods for eyelet pull-out strength	This method is intended to assess the pull-out strength of eyelets.	2017-01-01

CTI Suggestion

These shoe standards have been officially released and will become effective on the 1st of January 2017. In order to avoid failure in any subsequent product quality supervision random inspection we suggest all affected companies study these new standards, including the national mandatory standard for better control of the quality of products in the production process.