China's Countermeasures Under International Biological Security Background

Along with the development of social politics and economy, and the application of modern biological technology, the biological security problem emerges one after another incessantly: the biodiversity encounters serious destruction, the biological invasion worsens day by day, genetically modified organisms and foods increase day by day, the bioterrorism threats exist everywhere, the epidemic diseases sometimes occur, etc. The biological security has become the prominent question in the non-traditional security domain, which seriously threatens the human health, social development and the national security. The various countries and the international society all positively take measures, formulates biological security policies, strengthens the biological security legislation, guarantees national and the international biological security.The paper is purpose of China's biological security countermeasures under international background, through analysis about biological security. The paper gives brief analysis about biological security and domestic and foreign research on it. Compared to the too narrow concept of biological security given by domestic and foreign scholars, the paper produces a more comprehensive one. It summarizes the content and characteristics of biological security, points out the wrong viewpoint on the origin of biological security problem, makes a new judgment that biological security problem has been existed for long time. It analyses the current international biological security situation, from biological invasion and biodiversity, genetically modified organisms and foods, bioterrorism and epidemic diseases. It summarizes main countries' polices and international society's efforts and achievement in the international biological security domain. It analyzes our country's present biological security situation and development direction, points out that achievement and disadvantages exist together, draws a conclusion that our country now is facing the serious biological security threat. On the base of international and domestic endeavor in biological security domain, carries on the forecast to our country's biological security prospect. The biological security maintenance needs each country and the international society pays together diligently.