Domestic elevator wire rope standard GB8903-2005, only suitable for fast elevator wire rope. For high-speed elevators and ultra-high-speed elevators with wire rope, the quality requirements have been more than GB8903-2005, some of the world's leading elevator companies have their own procurement norms.

Wire rope is an important safety part of the elevator, so for the elevator with the stringent quality requirements string. Elevator in accordance with the level of speed to be classified, can be divided into speed 1M / S below the low-speed elevator, generally used for the following 10 buildings; speed 1-1.7M / S fast elevator, generally used in 20 buildings below; Speed 2-5M / S high-speed elevator, generally used for more than 20 layers of the building; speed of 5M / S over the high-speed elevators for high-rise buildings.