China will strictly regulate the production of medicines to ensure their quality, said Bian Zhenjia, an official with the State Drug Administration.

Speaking Thursday at the second seminar of China's medical, biological technologies and clinical applications, Bian said that China would continue promoting Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) nationwide and beginning June 30, 2004, enterprises without GMP authentication will be forbidden to produce any drugs.

GMP are international standards of medicine production, Bian said, which China introduced in 1988 and implemented in 1993 after some revision.

"In 1998, only 87 medicine manufacturers passed the GMP inspections, but at the end of November 2003, about half of 4,979 domestic manufacturers acquired the authentication." he said.

Bian said that since 1999, the State Drug Administration demanded that every newly established medicine enterprise should pass the GMP inspections.

China will also work out policies to ensure safe usage of medicine and to supervise medicine's side effects, said the official.

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