This Law is enacted to prevent infectious diseases from spreading into or out of the country, to carry out frontier health and quarantine inspection and to protect human health. The Text consists of 6 Chapters dealing with: General Provisions; Quarantine Inspection; Monitoring of Infectious Diseases; Health Supervision; Legal Liability; Supplementary Provisions.
Frontier health and quarantine offices shall be set up at international seaports, airports and ports of entry at land frontiers and boundary rivers of the People's Republic of China. Persons, conveyances and transport equipment, as well as articles such as baggage, goods and postal parcels that may transmit quarantinable infectious diseases, shall undergo quarantine inspection upon entering or exiting the country. Frontier health and quarantine offices shall exercise health supervision over the sanitary conditions at frontier ports and the sanitary conditions of conveyances on entry or exit at frontier ports, including: (1) supervise and direct concerned personnel on the prevention and elimination of rodents and insects that carry diseases; (2) inspect and test food and drinking water and facilities for their storage, supply and delivery; (3) supervise the health of employees engaged in the supply of food and drinking water and check their health certificates; and (4) supervise and inspect the disposal of garbage, waste matter, sewage, excrement and ballast water.