The Chinese government always attaches great importance to controlling the export of nonproliferation goods and technology, and has enacted a series of laws and regulations on the basis of Chinese policy as well as international common practice, said an official with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) in Beijing Wednesday.
At a training course for local trade officials on nonproliferation export control, MOFTEC Science and Technology Department Director Wang Hui said China's basic foreign trade law, enacted in 1994, clearly listed the types of goods and technology that are restricted or forbidden for export.
China has built up all-round legal systems concerning these nuclear, biological, chemical and missile goods and technology, Wang said.
In recent years, China has promulgated regulations on the administration of controlled chemicals and of military product export, and on the export control of nuclear dual-use items and related technologies, missiles and missile-related items and technology and dual-use biological agents and related equipment and technologies, as well as measures on the export control of certain chemicals and related equipment and technologies.
Great changes in the international counter-terror and nonproliferation situation have made the export control issue especially sensitive worldwide, said Director Liu Jieyi of the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament of the Foreign Ministry.
Efforts toward nonproliferation export control serve the long-term and fundamental interests of China, he said.
During the training course, MOFTEC officials said enterprises and individuals should abide by Chinese export control laws so as to safeguard their legitimate interests.
(Xinhua News Agency February 20, 2003)
