Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China jointly issued a notice on publicly soliciting opinions on the national standard *Code for Construction of Photovoltaic Power Stations (Partial Revision Draft for Comments)*. The notice points out that this code is applicable to the construction, reconstruction and expansion of photovoltaic power stations (including building attachments such as rooftop distributed projects), but not to building-integrated photovoltaic projects.
According to the comparison table of partially revised provisions, a series of requirements for surveying, construction and safety of floating photovoltaic power stations are added. The floating operation platform shall meet the following requirements: 1. The setup of the floating operation platform shall be fully demonstrated, and a special setup plan shall be formulated. 2. Safety protection measures against falling for the floating operation platform shall be set in place as required.
The full text of the notice is as follows:
Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Publicly Soliciting Opinions on the National Standard *Code for Construction of Photovoltaic Power Stations (Partial Revision Draft for Comments)*
In accordance with the *Notice of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Issuing the Work Plan for the Compilation of Engineering Construction Standards and Related Work in 2020* (Jianbiao Han〔2020〕No. 9), our ministry has organized GCL Energy Engineering Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Electric Power Design Institute and other units to revise the national standard *Code for Construction of Photovoltaic Power Stations (Partial Revision Draft for Comments)* (see annex). Now, we are publicly soliciting opinions from the society. Relevant units and the public can feedback opinions through the following channels and methods:
1. E-mail: wangbaolin_nj@gclsi.com.
2. Mailing address: No. 28 Xinqing Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province; Postcode: 215000.
The deadline for feedback of opinions is March 1, 2023.
Annex: *Code for Construction of Photovoltaic Power Stations (Partial Revision Draft for Comments)*
