Good news for the industry! The Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress held a symposium to solicit opinions on the legislation of the “Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Cell and Gene Industry Promotion Regulations (Draft)”

Article source: Shenzhen People’s Congress

On the afternoon of March 12, baseline;”>In order to implement the “Shenzhen Comprehensive Reform Pilot Implementation Plan for Building a Pioneer Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2020-2025)”, which gives Shenzhen greater reform autonomy in the field of biomedicine, strengthens the strategic decision-making deployment of legislative exploration, and promotes the formulation of the “Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Cell and Gene Industry Promotion Regulations” (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulations”), the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress held a symposium to solicit opinions on legislation. Luo Wenzhi, Party Secretary and Director of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, presided over the meeting. Jiang Yuyang and He Haitao, deputy directors of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, attended the meeting.

At the symposium, responsible comrades from relevant departments of the municipal government and representatives from hospitals and biological enterprises put forward opinions and suggestions on production registration, licensing access, clinical application, regulatory ideas, business environment, legislative framework, innovation breakthroughs, etc.

Luo Wenzhi pointed out that our city’s biopharmaceutical industry started early and grew rapidly. However, compared with Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu Taizhou and other cities, the scale of enterprises and output value are obviously smaller, and there are shortcomings in industrial development. To do a solid job in drafting the “Regulations”, firstly, we must emancipate our minds, take the lead in trials, give play to the role of legislation in guiding and promoting guarantees, and make good use of the legislative power of special economic zones and the reform pilot rights granted by the state without conflicting with the basic principles of national law. There must be breakthroughs in ideas, ideas, and policy measures; secondly, we must rely on enterprises to provide good services and develop the cell and gene industries. Finance and related industry authorities must Efforts should be made to support enterprises to continuously increase R&D and innovation, accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies in key areas, and achieve high-quality development of the industry with the improvement of product quality; third, government departments must strengthen cooperation, focus on the overall situation, and actively participate in the drafting of the “Regulations”. The “Regulations” involve various policies and regulations of various national ministries and commissions. The five drafting leading group member units must be responsible for drafting relevant provisions and writing the regulations realistically and well.