Comrade Wu Kongming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, explained this issue and put forward work suggestions. Comrades from the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee listened carefully to his explanation and held discussions.
Xi Jinping delivered an important speech while presiding over the study. He pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has placed strengthening biosecurity construction in a more prominent position and incorporated it into the national security strategy. It has promulgated and implemented biosecurity laws, promulgated national biosecurity policies and national biosecurity strategies, improved national biosecurity work organization and leadership systems and mechanisms, actively responded to major biosecurity risks, strengthened the protection and utilization of biological resources, and mobilized the entire party, country and society to fight the people’s war on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic. my country’s biosecurity awareness and protection capabilities have been continuously enhanced, the foundation for maintaining biosecurity has been continuously consolidated, and biosecurity construction has made historic achievements.
Xi Jinping emphasized that now, traditional biosecurity issues and new biosecurity risks are superimposed on each other. Overseas biothreats and internal biorisks are intertwined and coexist. Biosecurity risks have shown many new characteristics. There are still shortcomings and weaknesses in my country’s biosecurity risk prevention and control and governance system. It is necessary to scientifically analyze my country’s biosecurity situation, grasp the risks and challenges faced, and clarify ideas and measures to strengthen biosecurity construction.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to improve the national biosecurity governance system, strengthen strategic and forward-looking research and planning, and improve the national biosecurity strategy. It is necessary to improve the biosafety governance mechanism of party committee leadership, government responsibility, social coordination, public participation, and legal guarantee, and strengthen the coordination mechanism of biosafety work at all levels. It is necessary to make comprehensive efforts in all aspects of legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, law popularization and law 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 improve the awareness of biosafety risk prevention in the whole society. It is necessary to consolidate the grass-roots foundation of joint prevention, joint control, and group prevention and control, and build a people’s war for biosecurity risk prevention and control.
Xi Jinping emphasized the need to strengthen system governance and full-chain prevention and control, adhere to systematic thinking, scientifically implement policies, coordinate planning, and do a good job in full-chain governance. It is necessary to establish a dense biosafety risk monitoring and early warning network, improve the monitoring and early warning system, focus on strengthening the construction of grassroots monitoring sites, and improve terminal detection capabilities. It is necessary to quickly perceive and identify risk factors such as emerging infectious diseases, major animal and plant epidemics, microbial drug resistance, and biotechnology environmental safety, so as to achieve early detection, early warning, and early response. It is necessary to establish and improve emergency plans for major biosecurity emergencies and improve the rapid emergency response mechanism. It is necessary to strengthen reserves of emergency supplies and capabilities, both in physical goods and in production capacity. It is necessary to implement active defense and proactive management, adhere to the prevention of human and animal diseases, move the gateway forward, and block the transmission path of zoonotic diseases from the source. It is necessary to base on more precise and effective prevention, rationalize the grassroots animal and plant disease prevention and control systems and mechanisms, clarify the institutional positioning, enhance professional capabilities, and consolidate the grassroots foundation.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must keep a close eye on key risk areas in biosecurity and strengthen bottom-line thinking and risk awareness. It is necessary to strengthen the safety supervision of biological resources and formulate and improve catalogs of biological resources and human genetic resources. It is necessary to strengthen entry quarantine, strengthen potential risk analysis and penalties for violations and violations, and resolutely guard the country’s borders. For those that have been introduced and caused serious harm, it is necessary to find out the bottom number, accurately manage “one type, one strategy” and effectively eliminate them. It is necessary to strengthen the management of biosafety in domestic pathogenic microbiology laboratories, strictly implement relevant standards and regulations, and strictly manage experimental samples, experimental animals, and experimental activity waste. It is necessary to strengthen the management of antimicrobial drug use and residues.
Xi Jinping emphasized the need to accelerate biotechnology innovation and industrial application, promote scientific and technological independence and self-reliance in the field of biosafety, build national biosafety strategic scientific and technological strength, improve biosafety scientific research mechanisms, strictly regulate biotechnology R&D and application, strengthen biological laboratory management, and strictly enforce ethical review of scientific research projects and moral education of scientists. It is necessary to promote the healthy development of biotechnology and orderly promote the industrial application of biological breeding, biopharmaceuticals and other fields on the premise of respecting science, strict supervision, compliance with laws and regulations, and ensuring safety. It is necessary to combine excellent traditional concepts with modern biotechnology, integrate traditional Chinese and Western medicine, use both traditional Chinese and Western medicine, integrate and promote biological prevention and green prevention and control technologies and models, coordinate and standardize the use of antibacterial drugs, and promote the harmonious symbiosis between man and nature.
Xi Jinping pointed out that we must actively participate in global biosecurity governance, join hands with the international community to respond to increasingly severe biosecurity challenges, and strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation and exchanges in biosecurity policy formulation, risk assessment, emergency response, information sharing, and capacity building. It is necessary to successfully hold 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 Chinese solutions to the world. It is necessary to promote the tracing of the origin of the new coronavirus based on scientific principles and scientific rules.
Xi Jinping emphasized that strengthening biosecurity construction is a long-term and arduous task that requires continuous efforts and solid advancement. Party committees (party groups) and governments at all levels must effectively integrate their thoughts, understandings and actions into the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, implement biosafety work responsibilities, and ensure that they have the responsibility to protect the soil and fulfill their responsibilities. It is necessary to increase investment, improve policies and measures, strengthen factor protection, implement key tasks of biosecurity construction and achieve results, improve the modernization level of biosecurity risk prevention and control and governance systems, and firmly grasp the national biosecurity initiative. We must persist in the prevention and control of the new coronavirus epidemic, resolutely overcome paralysis, war weariness, luck, and laxity, strictly implement various prevention and control measures, and safeguard the hard-won prevention and control results.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Original title: “Xi Jinping emphasized at the 33rd collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to strengthen the construction of the national biosecurity risk prevention and control and governance system improve the national biosecurity governance capabilities”
Editor: Shan Qiu