What is the legal basis for the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic?

Legal analysis: mainly based on China's infectious disease prevention and control law, frontier health and quarantine law, animal epidemic prevention law, food safety law, criminal law, patent law, emergency response law, emergency regulations for public health emergencies, national overall emergency plan for public health emergencies, and regulations on handling public health emergencies in the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Controlling Infectious Diseases and Other Disasters, and other laws, administrative regulations, departmental rules and normative documents, refer to the International Health Regulations (2005) and relevant international treaties and bilateral agreements.

Legal basis: Article 33 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC). Anyone with China nationality is a citizen of People's Republic of China (PRC).

All China people and citizens are equal before the law.

The state respects and guarantees human rights.

Any citizen enjoys the rights stipulated by the Constitution and laws, and at the same time must fulfill the obligations stipulated by the Constitution and laws.