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Accelerating Biosafety Capacity Building To Ensure National Biosecurity, Peipei Liu, Jiafu Jiang, Hao Lu, Peilei Cong, Lilin Zhao, Gexia Qiao, Dongsheng Zhou, Guizhen Wu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Biosafety is an essential part of the national security system, which is related to people's lives and health, the country's longterm stability, and sustainable development, which is the bottom line that must be guaranteed. The international biosafety situation is grim and complex, while domestic biosafety faces challenges. Therefore, biosafety capacity building has become an international hot spot, among which scientific and technological innovation, talent training, and infrastructure platform construction are the top priorities. Although China has achieved strategic results in the rapid identification of pathogens, research, and development of specific vaccines and medicine in fighting against COVID-19 by relying on …