Drugs are a special kind of com-modity used to prevent, treatand diagnose diseases. Effec-tive supervision of drugs has a great bearing on ensuring the safe use of pharmaceuticals by consumers and on safeguarding the right to life and health of the general public. The Chinese govern-ment has always attached great impor-tance to supervision over drug safety, and has always been committed to the goal of strengthening such supervision and guaranteeing public drug safety. For this purpose, it has gradually established and improved the system and laws regarding supervision over drug safety, continuously improved the drug supply system, steadily enhanced the guarantee level for the qual-ity and safety of drugs, actively protected the rights and interests of the public in the use of medications, and persistently strived to improve the health of the people.