Recently, the national standard "General Principles for Assessment of Green Factory" (GB/T 36132-2025) was officially released and is scheduled to be fully implemented from December 31, 2025. Proposed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and led by the China Electronics Standardization Institute, this standard represents the first revision since the implementation of the 2018 version, marking a new stage of high-quality development in China's green factory cultivation efforts. The core changes in the new version are reflected in three dimensions: First, it clarifies new definitions and connotations, redefining the positioning and orientation of green factories in line with the core requirements of green and low-carbon development under the new situation, and proposes the "new five transformations" development goals: "energy low-carbonization, resource efficiency, production cleanliness, product greening, and land intensification." Second, it restructures the indicator system, using the "new five transformations" as the first-level indicator framework, with extendable second- and third-level indicators underneath. It also emphasizes the dominant role of quantitative indicators, with energy conservation, carbon reduction, and resource efficiency-related indicators accounting for a combined weight of up to 60%, enhancing the standard's practicality and guidance. Third, it optimizes the evaluation method by innovatively introducing a quantitative scoring system based on "baseline values" and "leading values." Enterprises can score their actual operational data against these two reference values to intuitively reflect their green development level, resulting in higher differentiation of evaluation results and broader application scenarios. Green factories are key carriers for the green and low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry, playing both foundational and guiding roles. In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will intensify the promotion and application of the new standard, focusing on key industries with significant energy-saving and carbon-reduction potential and strong green competitiveness. It will develop industry-specific detailed evaluation standards to provide technical support for accurately "profiling" enterprises' green development. This initiative will guide enterprises to carry out technological upgrades and management improvements in line with key indicators, promote the quality improvement and expansion of green factory cultivation, and support the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry toward green and low-carbon development.