Recently, a research team on the revision of the Chinese Wild Animal Conservation Law was established. The research team was headed by Professor Ma Huaide, President of China University of Political Science and Law, and consists of a number of scholars and experts from various universities and research institutions both in China and abroad, including Professor Li Honglei, Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of CASS Law Institute.

The project team has organized the collection and translation of international treaties and legislations of over a dozen countries and regions on the protection of wild animals, systematically reviewed the relevant laws and administrative regulations in China, and put forward proposals on the revision of Chinese Wild Animal Conservation Law and the improvement of the related legal systems, as well as measures for the control of the consumption of wild animals as food and the illegal trade in wild animals.

Professor Li Honglei summarizes these proposals as the followings: 1. enriching the legislative purposes of the Law, establishing the principle of universal protection of wild animals, and introducing the public health perspective into the law; 2. expanding the scope of the application of the law, and adopting protective measures on the basis of scientific classification; 3. establishing the legislative principles of bioethics and biosafety; 4. constructing a full-process whole-chain wild animal protection system; 5. adjusting the system of protection of land wild animals; 6. raising the standard of administrative punishment, revising the relevant provisions in the Criminal Law, and  strengthening legal responsibilities; 7. strengthening the enforcement of laws against trade in wild animals and enhancing the effect of law-enforcement; 8. strengthening the construction of the system of prevention and control of anthropozoonosis; and 9. improving the mechanism for regulating the consumption of wild animals as food and the trade in wild animals.