The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has officially accepted the advanced version of China's digital television standard (DTMB-A), according to Tsinghua University.The announcement indicates that DTMB-A has become an international transmission standard.

With the support of the National Standard Commission, a digital television research team from Tsinghua University and the National Digital Television Lab in Beijing developed the DTMB-A system together in 2009. Both teams developed a modulate pattern and have complete intellectual property rights over the system.

The system was exhibited in 2012, and its major performance indices exceeded the DVB-T2, the standard in Europe.

Yang Zhixing, director of the National Digital Television Lab in Beijing said that the DTMB standard from China is the fourth digital television standard after those of the US, Europe, and Japan. Late developing advantages allowed the DTMB standard to lead all of the first generation standards.

DTMB-A, the new advanced version aims to compete with the DVB-T2 in global market. DTMB-A is more adaptable to the needs of high definition television. The standard has greater transmission volume, more sensitive information acceptance, stronger anti-violation ability, and greater acceptance at high speeds.

With the support of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Digital Television Lab in Beijing and Shenzhenand the National Digital Television Research Center in Shanghai together promoted the DTMB-A chips in 2013. The Zhongguancun Digital Television Industry Association completed the DTMB-A industrial chain..

Pakistan is the first country to use the DTMB-A standard.