#Act4 LabAnimals The Chinese National Guidelines (GB/T 35892‐20181) for the ethical review of laboratory animal welfare were issued February 06, 2018 and became effective September 01, 2018. Guidelines for the ethical review of laboratory animal welfare - Chinese National Standard 19 May 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals A Chinese ban on the sale of wild animals has frozen the export of monkeys used for research. This measure aims to prevent future outbreaks, but some researchers are seeing it as a new obstacle in the fight against the pandemic. Chinese wildlife ban freezes export of test monkeys when demand was increasing due to COVID-19-related research 9 April 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals China’s first duplicate cat marks the country’s emergence in gene research and its entry in a potentially lucrative and unregulated market for cloning pets. His cat’s death left him heartbroken - so he cloned it 19 September 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals Early one February morning, researchers harvest six eggs from a female rhesus macaque—one of 4000 monkeys chirping and clucking in a massive outdoor complex of metal cages here at the Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research. China is investing massively in the genetic modification of monkeys and other animals, while link to human diseases is tenuous 2 August 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals China has announced that post-market cosmetic testing in the country will no longer include animal tests. China ends animal testing requirements on post-market cosmetics 14 March 2019