生物安全时代：新生物科技变革与国家安全治理

科技进步改进了人类对天然生物危害因子的操控能力,在诱发新的生物安全危害形态的同时,也赋予了生物安全客体的源头难以追溯性、生物安全主体的多元性、生物安全危害演变机理的复杂性等特点。生物安全在很大程度上体现了非传统安全的非传统特点。随着生物科技与生物安全在推动人类社会发展进程的作用日益显著,21世纪或将成为生物安全的时代。新一轮生物科技变革及其与人类社会互动衍生的生物安全问题,已经逐渐触及人类安全观念和现代文明的内源性危机或挑战。全面提升国家生物安全能力、优化国家生物安全治理,不仅是世界各国的战略选择,也是对人类科技文明与政治文明的新探索。

The Age of Biosecurity: New Biotechnology Revolution and National Biosecurity Governance

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 21st 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.