Abstract:     Technical standards are an important strategic tool for international competition, and all countries try their best to use government forces to promote the internationalization of their national technical standards. Therefore, government power is an indispensable and powerful promoter in the process of internationalization of technical standards. This article selects the panel data from 23 countries with different technical standards internationalization processes from 1998 to 2017. This article studied the intervention effects of government financial technology investment, government procurement, and government participation in international organization activities during the internationalization of technical standards. 
      The overall regression analysis shows that the three government interventions have a significant role in promoting the internationalization of technical standards, of which the role of government financial investment in science and technology is the most obvious. In addition, when the per capita income level increases, the advantages of a large country demonstrated by the population can increase the level of internationalization of technical standards through means such as increased negotiation power and market diffusion. 
    The analysis of heterogeneity test shows that government financial investment in science and technology has a more obvious positive effect on technologically underdeveloped countries and small market countries. Government procurement and the export of high-tech products have a significant role in promoting the internationalization of standards in technologically developed countries and large-market countries, and government participation in international standards organizations has a more obvious role in promoting large-market countries. 
      Therefore, this article puts forward corresponding suggestions: firstly, countries with advanced technology and large markets should focus on handling the relationship between the government and the market in the internationalization of technical standards. The direction of technological innovation and the choice of technical standards should be determined by the market; secondly, countries with advanced technology and small markets should use government procurement as an important demand-side tool to expand market demand in the internationalization of technical standards, and then promote the internationalization of technical standards; thirdly, countries with underdeveloped science and technology and large markets can use their local markets to form the basis for standard internationalization, but they should focus on the development of science and technology and improve the technical foundation. Technology is the primary factor in promoting the internationalization of technical standards; fourthly, for small market countries with low technological development, the most important thing is to improve the developing capability of science and technology. The government′s financial investment is inclined to high-tech sectors, and tax reduction and exemption policies are implemented for high-tech enterprises to promote the internationalization of technology standards.

Key words:  technical standard, internationalization of technical standards, government intervention, government procurement, investment of the government in financial technology