China
Evidence insufficientThe Institute of Commercial Cryptography Standards (ICCS), under the State Cryptography Administration, launched the Next-Generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithms program (NGCC) via an announcement dated 5 February 2025, opening a global call for public-key algorithm submissions (including PQC families) with staged submission and evaluation rounds continuing through 2025-2026. No published national completion date comparable to the UK, EU, Canadian or Australian schedules was found.
QRQC records this as evidence-insufficient rather than assigning a readiness band. Domestic algorithm standardisation may proceed on a separate track from NIST-family algorithms.
National cryptography research and standardisation; no public whole-economy migration schedule located
Band rationaleActive research and standardisation; a public migration timeline was not located. This is an evidence gap, not a low-readiness conclusion.
- 2025-02-05
NGCC programme launched
ICCS launched the Next-Generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithms programme, a global call for public-key algorithm submissions including PQC families.
Bindingness · policy roadmap
Absence of a public deadline is not absence of activity; recording the gap honestly is more useful than inventing a score.
- ·Treat as evidence-insufficient in comparisons
- ·Track domestic algorithm standardisation separately from NIST-family adoption
- A2adoptedAnnouncement on Launching the Next-generation Commercial Cryptographic Algorithms Program (NGCC)Institute of Commercial Cryptography Standards (ICCS)Published 2025-02-05Reviewed 2026-09-06
No public national migration completion date located in primary sources.