(Adopted at the 7th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress on September 20, 1984; revised for the first time at the 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on February 28, 2001; amended for the first time in accordance with the Decision on Revising Seven Laws Including the Marine Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 6th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress on December 28, 2013; amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision on Revising the Drug Administration Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress on April 24, 2015; revised for the second time at the 12th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on August 26, 2019)