Biosecurity is about people’s lives and health, about the long-term stability of the country, and about the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. It is an important part of the country’s overall security, and it is also an important force that affects and even reshapes the world structure. On September 29, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted the 33rd collective study on strengthening my country’s biosafety construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the study and delivered an important speech.
The general secretary pointed out that now, traditional biosafety issues and new biosafety risks are superimposed on each other, and overseas biological threats and internal biological risks are intertwined. Biosafety risks present many new characteristics. There are still shortcomings in my country’s biosafety risk prevention, control and governance system. Weaknesses. It is necessary to scientifically analyze my country’s biosafety situation, grasp the risks and challenges it faces, and clarify the ideas and measures for strengthening biosafety construction.
Improve the national biosafety governance system
It is necessary to improve the national biosafety governance system, strengthen strategic and forward-looking research plans, and improve the national biosafety strategy. It is necessary to improve the biosafety governance mechanism of party committee leadership, government responsibility, social coordination, public participation, and legal protection, and strengthen the coordination mechanism of biosafety work at all levels. It is necessary to make full efforts in all aspects of legislation, law enforcement, justice, law popularization, and compliance, improve the national biosafety laws and regulations system and institutional guarantee system, strengthen the publicity and education of biosafety laws and regulations and biosafety knowledge, and raise the awareness of biosafety risk prevention in the whole society. It is necessary to consolidate the grassroots foundation of joint prevention, joint control, and group prevention and group control, and lay a solid foundation for the prevention and control of biological security risks in the People’s War.
Strengthen system governance and prevention and control of the entire chain
It is necessary to strengthen systematic governance and prevention and control of the entire chain, adhere to system thinking, implement scientific policies, make overall plans, and do a good job in the governance of the entire chain. It is necessary to weave a dense biosafety risk monitoring and early warning network, improve the monitoring and early warning system, focus on strengthening the construction of grass-roots monitoring sites, and improve the ability of end-point detection. It is necessary to quickly perceive and identify new emerging infectious diseases, major animal and plant epidemics, microbial resistance, biotechnology environmental safety and other risk factors, so as to achieve early detection, early warning, and early response. It is necessary to establish and improve emergency plans for major biosafety emergencies, and improve the rapid emergency response mechanism. To strengthen emergency supplies and capacity reserves, it is necessary to reserve both physical objects and production capacity. It is necessary to implement active defense and proactive management, adhere to the prevention of human diseases and animals, move the border forward, and block the transmission path of zoonotic diseases from the source. Based on more precise and effective prevention, straighten out the grassroots animal and plant disease prevention and control systems and mechanisms, clarify the institutional positioning, enhance professional capabilities, and consolidate the grassroots foundation.
Keep a close eye on key risk areas of biosafety
We must keep a close eye on key risk areas of biosafety, and strengthen bottom-line thinking and risk awareness. It is necessary to strengthen the safety supervision of biological resources and formulate and improve the catalog of biological resources and human genetic resources. It is necessary to strengthen entry quarantine, strengthen potential risk analysis and penalties for violations of laws and regulations, and resolutely guard the national gate. For those that have been introduced and have caused serious harm, it is necessary to find out the bottom line, “one type, one policy” and precise control, and effective elimination. It is necessary to strengthen the management of biological safety of domestic pathogenic microorganism laboratories, strictly implement relevant standards and regulations, and strictly manage experimental samples, experimental animals, and experimental wastes. It is necessary to strengthen the management of the use and residues of antimicrobial drugs.
Accelerate the advancement of biotechnology innovation and industrial application
It is necessary to accelerate the promotion of biotechnology innovation and industrial application, promote the self-reliance of science and technology in the field of biosafety, build a national biosafety strategic science and technology force, improve the biosafety scientific research mechanism, strictly supervise the research and application of biotechnology, strengthen the management of biolabs, and strictly scientific research projects Ethical review and moral education of scientists. It is necessary to promote the healthy development of biotechnology, and under the premise of respecting science, strict supervision, laws and regulations, and ensuring safety, orderly promote the industrial application of bio-breeding, bio-pharmaceuticals and other fields. It is necessary to combine excellent traditional concepts with modern biotechnology, integrate Chinese and Western medicine, and use Chinese and Western medicine together, integrate and promote biological control and green prevention and control technologies and models, coordinate the use of antibacterial drugs, and promote harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Actively participate in global biosafety governance
It is necessary to actively participate in global biosafety governance, join hands with the international community to respond to increasingly severe biosafety challenges, and strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation and exchanges in biosafety policy formulation, risk assessment, emergency response, information sharing, and capacity building. It is necessary to successfully host the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, promote the formulation of the “Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework”, and contribute Chinese wisdom and provide Chinese solutions to the world. It is necessary to promote the traceability of the new coronavirus in accordance with scientific principles and scientific rules.
Continue to push hard and steadily
Strengthening the construction of biosafety is a long-term and arduous task that requires continuous and solid progress. Party committees (party groups) and governments at all levels should conscientiously unify their ideological understanding and actions into the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, implement the responsibilities of biosafety work, and be responsible and responsible. It is necessary to increase investment, improve policies and measures, strengthen element guarantees, grasp the key tasks of biosafety construction and achieve results, improve the level of modernization of biosafety risk prevention and control and governance systems, and firmly grasp the national biosafety initiative. We must persevere in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, resolutely overcome paralysis, war exhaustion, fluke psychology, and lax mentality, strictly implement various prevention and control measures, and guard the hard-won prevention and control results.
(Original title: Strengthening the construction of biosafety, the latest statement by the General Secretary)
(Editor in charge: Gui Qiang_NB18917)
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