Objective:To review the current situation and progress of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) international standards,standard projects and proposals in Intemational Organization for Standardization (ISO)/technical committee (TC) 249.Methods:ISO/TC 249 standards and standard projects on the ISO website were searched and new standard proposals information were collected from ISO/TC 249 National Mirror Committee in China.Then all the available data were summarized in 5 closely related items,including proposed time,proposed country,assigned working group (WG),current stage and classification.Results:In ISO/TC 249,there were 2 international standards,18 standard projects and 24 new standard proposals proposed in 2014.These 44 standard subjects increased year by year since 2011.Twenty-nine of them were proposed by China,15 were assigned to WG 4,36 were in preliminary and preparatory stage and 8 were categorized into 4 fields,7 groups and sub-groups based on International Classification Standards.Conclusion:A rapid and steady development of international standardization in TCM can be observed in ISO/TC 249.