Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration Holds Meeting to Study and Implement the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee

The Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration held a meeting to study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, with a special lecture delivered by Guan Feng, member of the propaganda group of the provincial party committee and dean of the School of Marxism of South China Normal University.

The conference report examined the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping from three aspects: the important status and main content of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee, and how to fully implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee. The secretary gave an in-depth interpretation of a series of new ideas, new perspectives and new judgments on the comprehensive deepening of reform.

The meeting emphasized that studying and implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Party Central Committee is an important political task for the present and the future. Party organizations at all levels should conduct in-depth study, publicize and implement the spirit of the plenary session in accordance with the deployment requirements of the provincial party committee, adhere to the original learning, continue in-depth study and combine practical learning, and effectively transform the spirit of the Plenary Session into a powerful force to guide practice and promote work.

Key Focus Areas

The meeting highlighted four key focus areas:

Reforms

Plan policies and measures to promote the reform of the entire drug supervision process, continue to deepen the reform of the review and approval system, fully release the dividends of policy reform in the Greater Bay Area, and accelerate the modernization of the drug supervision system and regulatory capacity.

Ensuring Safety

Improve the drug safety responsibility system, strengthen the implementation of drug safety management responsibilities by all parties, improve the quality and efficiency of drug safety prevention and control, increase law enforcement and case management, strengthen product life cycle supervision, and build solid drug safety profits in all aspects.

Promoting Development

Increase support for the research and development of innovative drugs and medical devices, promote the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine, actively cultivate new pharmaceutical productivity, improve the quality and efficiency of pharmaceutical industry development, and accelerate the agglomeration of the province’s biopharmaceutical industry.

Strengthening Party Building

Insist on using the spirit of reform and strict standards to govern the party, consolidate and deepen the results of party discipline learning and education, persist in putting the party’s political construction first, persist in strengthening a good work style, curb discipline and anti-corruption, and persist in promoting the implementation of comprehensive and rigorous party governance. The primary responsibility provides a strong guarantee for deepening drug supervision reform.

The presentation and reporting meeting was held in the form of a video conference, with members of the leadership team of the Provincial Food and Drug Administration, second-level inspectors, directors of pharmaceutical safety, serving party members and agency cadres, and key responsible comrades in attendance.