The disturbance control standard（DCS） commended by North American Electric Reliability Council（NERC） is briefly introduced. By analyzing the technical characteristics of DCS， the relationship between DCS and area control error（ACE）， system frequency and control performance standard is described. To combine the disturbance accident happened in East China power grid（ECPG）， it is pointed out that the ability of accident reserve of control areas in ECPG can be effectively reflected. Aimed at the characteristic of energy management system（EMS） in ECPG， the feasibility to implement the DCS in ECPG is put forward to provide technical evaluation means for reasonably deploying the reserve capability and save the system resources. By combining the monitoring demand of DCS， the adjusting guidance for the automatic generation control（AGC） system in the control areas of ECPG is proposed.