Standards digitization is the inevitable result of economic and social development, digital technology change, and international strategic game. It is the key to realize the digital transformation of National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) and has strategic significance for the construction of Digital China. This study reviews the demands of standards digitization and the research and practice of standardization organizations and key countries. The future development trends of standards digitization are analyzed in depth from the aspects of performance form, development mode, and social influence. Furthermore, it puts forward several suggestions for the standards digitization in China considering these trends. Specifically, a standards digital transformation organization should be established to improve the working mechanism, generic and key technologies need to be developed to lay a science and technology foundation for standards digitization, the pilot scope should be expanded to cultivate an industrial ecology, and international cooperation and exchanges should be encourage to integrate China into the global wave of standards digitization.