Abstract:Association standards are important achievement in the reform of standard system. Although the quantities of association standards increases significantly, the industrial structure and regional distribution were not effectively evaluated. Based on the standard data of 2803 association standards in the country, the regional structure and changes of the development are reflected by the location quotient, and the consistency of the development is evaluated by the grey relational analysis. The results show that the association standards of the first industrial are dependent on resources. Then the the association standards of the second industrial lead to other industries, and there is an industry preference. To the third industrial, the regional distribution is not balanced. The structures of association standards in the province of Shandong, Liao ning and Jiang su have high consistency with the whole country. And the industry heterogeneity of association standards in various regions is quite small, including electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply, information transmission, software and information technology services and construction business.