In today's paint industry, environmental protection is one of the unavoidable themes. In this context, environmentally friendly coatings have grown rapidly and have gradually become the mainstream of development in the coatings field. Water-based coatings are an area of ​​rapid development of environmentally friendly coatings. At present, many mature products and technologies have been put on the market. Water-based coatings are a type of coating that uses water as a solvent or dispersion medium. It has the characteristics of green and environmental protection. The field has been used on a larger scale. As countries around the world pay more and more attention to environmental protection, it has become an inevitable trend to use water-based paint instead.

　　 Since its appearance in the 1960s, water-based coatings have undergone years of development, and have formed a huge system of multiple varieties, multiple functions, multiple uses, and multiple specifications. Although my country's water-based coatings industry started late, with the rapid economic development, water-based coatings have made great progress, and the trend of water-based wood coatings in furniture and office coatings is obvious. Although water-based coatings have achieved great results, there is still a long way to go to completely replace other types of coatings.

　　 At the same time, the development of the coatings industry is inseparable from standard specifications and guidance. A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Announcement of the List of Demonstration Projects for the Application of Group Standards in 2018" (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [2018] No. 469). "Architectural Coatings" was included in the 2018 "Group Standard Application Demonstration Project". "Technical Specification for Evaluation of Green Design Products for Water-based Architectural Coatings", as a technical specification for evaluation of green design products in the coatings industry, is of great significance for standardizing and guiding the development of the coatings industry. It is helpful to promote the expansion of the social influence of green product policies, enhance the social effect, and can further promote brand building, guide consumption, and meet the requirements of industry structure transformation and supply-side structural reform. A series of coating industry standards have been implemented successively to promote the transformation process of the coating industry. I believe that as the government pays more attention to environmental protection and the paint industry standards become more and more perfect, coating companies will also accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading and contribute to the cause of environmental protection.

　　 In addition to formulating standards and conducting research in the future, we must also actively develop green, sustainable and developing coating technology, and continue to expand the application fields of water-based coatings to further release the market potential of water-based coatings. At the same time, on the existing basis, develop high-performance, high-function water-based coatings. In general, water-based coatings are one of the important development trends in the coating industry, and the prospects are very broad. But to play a greater role, it is necessary to work hard on performance and replace non-environmentally friendly coatings from the root cause.