中国生物工程杂志

Scientific and technological progress has significantly improved human abilities to control natural biological hazards. While inducing new forms of biological hazards, it has also contributed to the untraceability of biosecurity objects, the diversity of biosecurity subjects and the complexity of evolutionary mechanism of biosecurity hazards. To a large extent, biosecurity is characterized by those non-conventional features of non-traditional security issues. As biotechnology and biosecurity have been playing an increasingly significant role in promoting the continuing development of human community, the 21^st century will usher in the age of biosecurity. A new round of biotechnological advances and the ensuing biosecurity issues have gradually infiltrated into the security conceptions of human beings and directly tied to the endogenous crises or challenges faced by modern civilization. To comprehensively upgrade and optimize the biosecurity capabilities and governance is not only a strategic choice for countries all around the world but also a new exploration effort made not only in the scientific and technological field but also on the political arena.