Vice-Premier Stresses Improvement in Medicine SupervisionVice-Premier Wu Bangguo Wednesday called for efforts nationwide to promote improvement in medicine supervision and administration and strengthen law enforcement to crack down on the production and sale of fake and shoddy medicine.All the efforts should be concentrated on ensuring the safety of the people and pushing forward sound development of the country 's medical undertakings, Wu said while meeting with participants in a national meeting on the reform of the medicine regulatory system, which closed here Wednesday. It was agreed at the two-day meeting that despite the great achievements China has made in the medical sector over the past half century, some serious problems have occurred in the production and distribution of medicine in recent years, which has posed a threat to people's health. Participants attributed the problems to the chaotic competition caused by excessive number of medicine factories, disordered distribution of medicine and an outdated regulatory system, as well as regional protectionism, which are all factors of the flood of fake or shoddy medicine in the Chinese market. It was stressed at the meeting that all localities should enhance supervision over medicine production and distribution, and all government departments concerned should cooperate and support each other to ensure the success of the reform. Participants also agreed that efforts should be continued to strike hard on illegal activities in the medical sector according to law. |
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