Biosecurity seen as top legal priority

China will speed up its legislative process for creating biosecurity laws and relevant legal mechanisms so as to integrate biosecurity risk management into overall national security, Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said on Monday.

Wu said enhancing biosecurity is a common practice by many nations, and the international community has always attached great importance to biosecurity issues.

China has recently integrated biosecurity into its overall national security, thus systematically ensuring better protection for public health, national security and the long-term stability and prosperity of the nation, he said.

"This epidemic has highlighted the importance of biosecurity," he said. "China will issue biosecurity laws as soon as possible, and speed up the process of building the legal and support apparatus for national biosecurity."