What’s New in China’s DevOps Standards? Latest ITU & Domestic Evaluation Results

On May 29 2024, China’s Cyberspace Administration, State Administration for Market Regulation, and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the Information Standard Construction Action Plan (2024‑2027) , emphasizing the internationalization of information standards through active participation in ISO, IEC, ITU and other bodies, and promoting alignment between national and international standards.

China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) subsequently introduced a synchronized assessment framework based on the ITU DevOps international standard and the domestic DevOps standard, upgrading the scope, certification, and reporting of DevOps evaluations to support enterprises’ needs.

On June 27 2025, at the 26th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Beijing, CAICT announced the results of the 33rd batch of dual‑certified ITU DevOps international and domestic standard assessments, awarding certificates to several enterprises.

Air China Co., Ltd. – New Retail Platform – Original Channel Refund System (Level 2)

Shanghai Financial Futures Information Technology Co., Ltd. – Exchange Management System Reconstruction Project (Level 3)

Shanghai Stock Exchange Information Network Co., Ltd. – Level‑2 Market Data Release System (Level 3)

China Railway Investment Group Ltd. – Integrated Information Project Management Platform (DevOps Project Management module)

CAICT also launched the SOMM Operations Capability Maturity Assessment , covering AIOps intelligent operations, SRE reliability engineering, and FinOps resource management, aiming to elevate enterprise IT operations.

In parallel, the new BizDevOps standard framework was introduced, integrating DevOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps to enable end‑to‑end business value creation from requirement to service delivery and continuous operation.

The ITU DevOps international standard originated from a 2018 meeting in Geneva, leading to the adoption of ITU‑T Y.3525 (Cloud Computing – Requirements for cloud service development and operation management) in July 2020, which forms the basis of current international assessments.

Domestic DevOps standards, encapsulated in the DevOps Capability Maturity Model , detail processes such as agile development, continuous delivery, technical operations, security, risk management, and performance measurement, and have been officially adopted by numerous financial, telecom, and internet enterprises.

Additionally, the AIOps Capability Maturity Model (three parts) provides assessment modules for intelligent computing, data management, configuration management, anomaly detection, fault prediction, alarm convergence, root‑cause analysis, self‑healing, capacity forecasting, knowledge‑base construction, resource optimization, intelligent change, system evaluation, and intelligent Q&A.