Biosafety generally refers to the potential threat to the ecological environment and human health caused by the development and application of modern biotechnology, and a series of effective prevention and control measures taken against it. Based on the possible adverse effects of the development of biotechnology, people put forward the concept of biosafety.

/10 2020 in June 2020 17, the 22nd meeting of the 13th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to pass the Biosafety Law. This law shall come into force on April 5, 20021year. ? [1] In May 2022, accelerating the construction of biosafety guarantee system was included in the Tenth Five-Year Plan of bio-economic development.

In the mid-1980s, 1985, UNEP, WHO, UNIDO and FAO jointly formed an informal ad hoc working group on biosafety, and began to pay attention to biosafety issues.

1992 After the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held, biosafety legislation attracted international attention. The two programmatic documents signed at this conference, Agenda 2 1 Century and the Convention on Biological Diversity, specifically mentioned the issue of biosafety.

Starting from 1994, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) * * * organized 10 round of working meetings and intergovernmental negotiations to prepare for the formulation of a comprehensive biosafety protocol. In order to draft the first draft of the protocol as soon as possible, four meetings of the Ad Hoc Expert Working Group were held on the biosafety protocol.