The rapid development of the laboratory animal industry has led to significant progress in China’s laboratory animal standardization efforts. This review considers China’ s laboratory animal standards system and the organizational structure of laboratory animal standards, summarizing the current status and characteristics of national,industry, local, group, and enterprise standards for laboratory animals. It analyzes the content structure and layout of China’ s laboratory animal standards and discusses the existing issues in the country ’ s laboratory animal standardization work. We propose relevant countermeasures and recommendations, such as “ further clarifying the hierarchical structure of the laboratory animal standard system, improving the laboratory animal standard system,establishing an laboratory animal standard evaluation mechanism, and creating a coordination mechanism between local and group standards ”, with the aim of providing reference and guidance for future laboratory animal standardization efforts.