The State Food and Drug Administration held a work conference on promoting foreign trade and foreign investment

On November 15, 2022, in order to deeply implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and focus on the new mission and new requirements put forward in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the State Food and Drug Administration held a work conference on promoting foreign trade and foreign investment, studying and deploying measures to further strengthen the services of foreign-funded pharmaceutical enterprises and do a good job in the service guarantee of key foreign-funded projects
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Zhao Junning, member of the party group and deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, attended the meeting and delivered a speech
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Zhao Junning said that the State Food and Drug Administration attaches great importance to serving foreign trade and foreign investment, and has successively issued the "Notice of the Comprehensive Department of the State Food and Drug Administration on Further Strengthening the Service Work of Foreign-funded Enterprises" and the "Notice of the Comprehensive Department of the State Food and Drug Administration on the Establishment of a Leading Group for the Coordination of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment", making comprehensive arrangements
for promoting foreign trade and foreign investment services.
The State Food and Drug Administration will be guided by the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and go all out to promote foreign trade and foreign investment services in accordance with the overall requirements of foreign trade and foreign investment services
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Zhao Junning stressed that all localities and departments should further strengthen the work of serving foreign trade and foreign investment, accelerate the review and approval of drugs and medical devices on the basis of the approval and supervision of epidemic prevention drugs and medical devices, strengthen the quality supervision of anti-epidemic products, and solidly promote the landing and production
of key foreign-funded pharmaceutical projects.
First, in accordance with the requirements of the relevant notice on strengthening the service work of foreign-funded enterprises, we will continue to promote the implementation of various work and achieve results
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The second is to make full use of existing communication channels and mechanisms to deeply understand the problems and demands
of foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises in China.
Third, in accordance with the principle of territoriality, the State Bureau will guide the provincial bureaus to do a good job in service guarantee for key foreign-funded projects
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The participating provincial bureaus exchanged good experience and practices on promoting foreign trade and foreign investment in their regions and promoting the progress of key foreign-funded projects, and clarified future work goals and measures
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Relevant responsible comrades of relevant departments and bureaus of drugs, medical devices and cosmetics of the State Food and Drug Administration attended the meeting on-site, and relevant responsible comrades of 11 provincial bureaus involved in key foreign-funded projects including Tianjin, Hebei, Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Guangdong participated in the meeting
online via video.

Source: NMPA website