Abstract: The establishment of China’s waste incineration standards could be divided into “the beginning stage before 2000”, “important development stage from 2001 to 2010”, and “refined optimization stage from 2011 to present” in terms of the development stage of waste incineration engineering technology in China. The three stages of waste incineration standards were systematically reviewed and analyzed, showed that before 2000, there were only a few national and industry standards in the field of waste incineration. From 2001 to 2010, more than ten important national and industry standards related to waste incineration were released. Since 2011, in addition to the optimization and revision of the original standards, more emphasis has been focused on the refinement of the standards. At the same time, the differences before and after the revision of important standards and the limits of local domestic waste incineration pollution control standards were compared according to the development process of the industry. After a comprehensive analysis of the problems existed in the current standard, the corresponding suggestions were put forward, that was, strengthening the standardization of drafting rules in the process of standard formulation, accelerating the formulation of recommended national and industry standards and improving the coordination between the standards, formulating local environmental standards in line with economic and technical factors, raising the entry threshold for group standards, and improving the construction of implementation mechanisms.

Key words: waste incineration, standards, pollution control, formulation and revision