Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine of Frontier and Port Public Health Emergencies.

This Regulation is enacted in accordance with the Frontier Health Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China, its implementation rules and the Regulation on the Urgent Handling of Public Health Emergencies, aiming to effectively prevent, lessen, control and eliminate the harm of public health emergencies in time, to safeguard the physical health of the persons on entry or exit and the general public of the frontiers and ports, and to maintain the normal social order at the frontiers and ports. The Regulation contains 7 Chapters: General Provisions; Organization and Control; Emergency Preparedness; Reporting and Notification; Emergency Handling; Legal Responsibility; Supplementary Provisions.
The term public health emergencies as mentioned in the Regulation refers to the outbreak of a serious contagious disease, colonial disease of unknown causes, serious food poisoning that has caused or may cause severe effect on the health of the persons on entry or exit and the general public at the ports and frontiers, and to other incidents that severely affect the health of the general public.
The Regulation shall govern the urgent handling of the emergencies involving the frontiers, ports, persons on entry or exit, means of transport, goods, containers, luggage and post parcels, etc. When urgently handling the entry-exit inspection and quarantine of a frontier and port emergency, one shall abide by the policy of focusing on the prophylaxis and being always on the alert, and carry out the principles of unified leadership, level-to-level responsibilities, timely responses, definite measures, depending on science and strengthening cooperation.