Chinese government attaches great importance to food and drug safety and completed drawing up the Five-Year Plan

The plan focuses on the five-year goal to be accomplished, that is, around five years of efforts will be made to gradually improve China’s food and drug supervision system and mechanism, promote legal system, enhance the caliber of the supervision team, further improve administration by law. In addition, such efforts will be made to strengthen infrastructure construction, improve technical equipment, and remarkably promote food and drug safety standard and inspection technology, so that to improve food and drug manufacturing order, effectively keep within limits the illegal and criminal activities on manufacturing and marketing counterfeit or substandard food and drug, and reduce the food and drug safety accidents greatly.

In order to guarantee the smooth implementation of the plan, the plan proposes guarantee measures in seven aspects, i.e. innovation of the system and mechanism of supervision, increasing enterprise awareness of responsibility, promoting administration by law, intensifying governmental investment, displaying the role of social surveillance, strengthening international cooperation and exchange, and establishing the mechanism for plan implementation.