POSTER NO: 530

Informed Consent in China

Deyan Wang
Department of Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai China, No.250 Bi Bo Rd., Shanghai 201203, China

This article combines such state laws and statutes as, 'The Law of certified Physicians', 'Drug Administration Regulations of People's Republic of China', 'The Temporal Methods of Supervising the Human Genome Resources', 'The Regulative Statutes of Medical Institutions' in China, with the discourses by Chairman Jiang Zemin, which expounds the Chinese government's attitudes and stand to the principle of the Informed Consent, introduces the Chinese academia's understanding and research of it, discusses the different understandings and recognitions of it in the clinical practices by the East and West cultures, simultaneously points out the problems and difficulties of carrying it out in biomedicine researches and clinical practices in China, and in the end puts forward the significance of proceeding the publicizing and education of it in public.