Both domestic and international standards for wood structures were reviewed and several key issues for improving Chinese standards, especially for the Code for Design of Timber Structures to be consistent with the international standards, were identified. The authors suggested that the standards for industrialized wood products and the standards for design of wood structures should be separately established. Wood of various species needs to be stress-graded and identified with its characteristic strength; the reliability of wood structures and the derivation of the design strengths of wood need to be further verified and the specifications of the reliability and strength values need to clarified; calculations of resistance of wood members and load-bearing capacities of the connections need to be necessarily improved and modified; and the contents of codes need to be reasonably selected and arranged.