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China’s evolving biosafety/biosecurity legislations
Author(s) -
Cong Cao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of law and the biosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 2053-9711
DOI - 10.1093/jlb/lsab020
Subject(s) - biosecurity , biosafety , legislature , china , corporate governance , political science , legislation , public administration , microbiology and biotechnology , business , law , biology , ecology , finance
This paper represents a systematic effort to describe and assess China’s evolving biosafety/biosecurity legislative and regulatory regime. It catalogs and analyzes laws, regulations, and measures, including the newly passed Biosafety/Biosecurity Law. Various reasons are underlying China’s recently accelerating legislative process for such a law, from international attention increasingly turning biosafety/biosecurity governance into a more regular fixture; the emergence of infectious diseases and even pandemics linked with zoonosis; advances in the global frontier of the life sciences and biotechnology and their integration with other technologies, which, while holding great promise for advancements in global health, raises biosafety/biosecurity concerns; to the strengthening of biosafety/biosecurity governance in many countries. Chinese leadership’s ‘holistic view of national security’ encompasses broad areas of concerns of national security with biosafety/biosecurity being an integral part. However, having progressed alongside its development of the life sciences and biotechnology, China’s current biosafety/biosecurity legislative and regulatory regime is far from rising to the challenges and even the newly enacted Biosafety/Biosecurity law still has room for improvement. The paper’s findings have significant policy implications for further enhancing China’s biosafety/biosecurity legislation and governance and making them better serve domestic interests while converging with international norms.

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