Recently, the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) Health and Biosafety Working Group has joined with well-known domestic enterprises and experts to hold a seminar on "Developing China’s Disease Vaccine Technology, Promoting Biosafety, and Protecting People's Health".

Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary-General of CBCGDF delivered an opening speech at the meeting. His speech is organized as follows.

Biosafety is a part of biodiversity. There is a Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD). Therefore, biodiversity and biosafety are closely related.

In the past many years, we have been paying attention to biosafety issues. There are several levels of biodiversity, including genes, species, and ecosystem. From the genetic level, we conduct research on related wildlife (including genes related to diseases); To species (especially endangered species, and wild animals that died due to external diseases. For example, wild boars that died of unknown reasons in the forests of Northeast China, and recently 32 Oriental white storks died abnormally in Tianjin, we also require anatomy and genetic analysis); At the level of the larger ecosystem, we are also very concerned because of the interaction between people and nature.

For example, this year after the National Forestry and Grassland Administration promulgated the forest health resort policy, we immediately sent a letter and got the reply from the other party. Regarding the forest health resort, we proposed to pay special attention to two aspects, one is the safety of the forest ecosystem, and the other is the safety of human beings who perform health care, as well as the risk of disease and virus spillage of wild animals in the forest.

We have long been concerned about biosafety. We have specially organized scientific investigations to Sanjiangyuan, Zhuonai Lake, and Lop Nur, and conducted research on the biosafety of their ecosystems.

Today, I am very honored to invite such cross-border, profoundly accomplished and important experts in their respective fields to participate in the meeting to guide our work. We hope to build a platform to carry out cooperation, because in the past, the traditional discipline setting has great limitations, it should be said that it is a particularly large limitation. Then, we hope to build a platform and reach a consensus to jointly make our contributions to safety, biosafety or ecological health.

Once, when I just finished speaking on the Fortune Forum, someone said: You are animal protectionists. I said, you were wrong, we protect animals, in fact, only one purpose is to protect human habitat. We ultimately come down to human safety. It cannot be understood separately. Instead, it is necessary to promote safety in various fields in a coordinated manner and deal with traditional safety and non-traditional safety in a coordinated manner. Now, more than any time in the past, we need to discuss this issue together in a systematic way of thinking and in a cooperative way, and to build a security pattern with systematic thinking.

We know that the issue of wild animals and their habitats is actually very important, and it is related to biosafety and people's safety. Because people have understood that more than 70% of human infectious diseases originate from wildlife. Therefore, how to manage and control the health of wildlife, how to ensure and improve it, are all topics that are worthy of study. It is necessary to prevent and resolve biosafety risks. The threat of biosafety stems from persistent, borderless, cross-species, and multi-source infectious disease viruses that will cause catastrophic harm to humans. Natural virus mutation outbreaks, pathogen leakage, deliberate modification of high-risk viruses, etc. bring biosafety risks. In the rapidly changing political, military, and economic complex environment, biosafety threats have changed from accidental risks to persistent risks. Risk changes must be prepared and responded to in time.

On behalf of Hu Deping, on behalf of Xie Boyang, and on behalf of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), I thank you all for coming, thank you all for your participation, thank you all.

(The above is sorted out based on recordings and has not been confirmed by the speaker himself.)

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