In March, these new regulations came into effect.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 28th Question: In March, these new regulations came into effect.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Yang
In March, a number of new regulations came into effect. 111 drugs were included in the new national medical insurance drug list; The new version focuses on controlling the list of new pollutants to defend the clear water and blue sky; The new regulations on cosmetics supervision strengthen the sampling inspection of children’s cosmetics and other products … more perfect rule of law, more secure protection.
111 drugs were included in the new national medical insurance drug list.
The new version of the national medical insurance drug list will be implemented on March 1.
The new national medical insurance drug list added 111 drugs, including 2 drugs for COVID-19, 7 drugs for rare diseases, 22 drugs for children, etc. Most of them were newly listed within 5 years.
The total number of drugs in the adjusted national medical insurance drug list reached 2967. After Azvudine Tablets and Qingfei Paidu Granules were included in the national medical insurance drug list, there are more than 600 drugs for treating COVID-19’s symptoms such as fever and cough in the national medical insurance drug list.
The new version of the list of key pollutants takes effect.
The 2023 version of the list of new pollutants under key control will be implemented on March 1.
New pollutants refer to toxic and harmful chemicals discharged into the environment, which have the characteristics of biotoxicity, environmental persistence and bioaccumulation, and pose great risks to the ecological environment or human health, but have not been brought into management or the existing management measures are insufficient.
The list defines 14 kinds of key new pollutants to be controlled and their environmental risk control measures such as prohibition, restriction and discharge restriction. Departments of ecological environment, industry and information technology, agriculture and rural areas, commerce, market supervision and management, and customs at all levels should strengthen the control and governance of new pollutants according to the division of responsibilities.
Strengthen the sampling inspection of children’s cosmetics and other products
The Measures for the Administration of Cosmetic Sampling Inspection came into effect on March 1st.
The method is clear. National Medical Products Administration organizes the national cosmetic sampling inspection every year, and is responsible for establishing the national cosmetic sampling laboratory information system and strengthening the information construction of cosmetic sampling inspection.
Cosmetics sampling inspection should focus on children’s cosmetics and special cosmetics, cosmetics using new raw materials, cosmetics with more problems found in supervision, etc.
Fully guarantee the quality and safety of food-related products
The Interim Measures for Quality and Safety Supervision and Management of Food-related Products came into effect on March 1st.
The interim measures clarify the main responsibility of the "first responsible person" of the producers and sellers and the territorial supervision responsibility of the market supervisors, and require producers to be equipped with quality and safety directors and quality safety officers.
In the supervision and inspection of the whole production process, producers are required to establish management systems and control measures such as raw and auxiliary materials management, production key point control, factory inspection control, etc., so as to realize the quality and safety traceability of food-related products.
Establish and improve the modern livestock and poultry breeding system
The newly revised Animal Husbandry Law came into effect on March 1st, which made it clear that the people’s governments at or above the county level should incorporate the development of animal husbandry into the national economic and social development plan, and put forward that the state should establish and improve the modern livestock and poultry breeding system.
The newly revised animal husbandry law has revised and improved the provisions on strengthening the prevention and control of livestock and poultry diseases, doing a good job in the harmless treatment of livestock and poultry manure and ensuring public health and safety. Shall not violate the provisions of laws and regulations, the construction of livestock and poultry farms in prohibited areas.
Improve the language and writing standards of information technology products.
The Provisions on the Administration of the Use of National Common Language and Characters for Information Technology Products shall come into force on March 1st.
According to the regulations, digital and online publications use the national common language and characters, and should conform to the language and characters standards such as Chinese Pinyin, Putonghua pronunciation, standardized Chinese characters, modern Chinese word forms, punctuation marks and digital usage.
If it is necessary to use Chinese dialects, traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters, it shall comply with the relevant provisions of the Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on National Common Language and Characters.
Improve the management system of work for relief.
The newly revised "National Management Measures for Work-for-Relief" came into effect on March 1st.
The newly revised method clarifies the implementation scope, beneficiaries, construction fields and relief modes of the work-for-relief policy, emphasizes the policy objectives of paying labor remuneration to the people involved in the project construction and developing skills training, further improves the specific requirements of the work-for-relief investment plan, special fund project management, supervision and inspection, and adds the contents of implementing the work-for-relief policy for key projects invested by the government and promoting the work-for-relief mode in the field of agricultural and rural infrastructure construction.
Encourage the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into national standards.
The newly revised Measures for the Administration of National Standards came into effect on March 1st.
The new method encourages the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into national standards, promotes scientific and technological research and standard development simultaneously around national scientific research projects and active areas of market innovation, and improves the timeliness of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into national standards. Group standards that are advanced, leading and effective in implementation and need to be promoted and implemented nationwide can be formulated as national standards according to procedures.
Building a team of high-quality professional reserve personnel
The law on reserve personnel shall come into force on March 1.
As a basic and comprehensive law that comprehensively regulates the work of reserve personnel, this law comprehensively regulates the leadership and management system, identity attributes and classification of reserve personnel, as well as reserve ranks, selection and supplement, education and training, promotion and appointment, daily management, recruitment, treatment guarantee, withdrawal from reserve service and legal responsibilities.