Make early deployment and grasp all kinds of spring prevention work.

On March 6, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national video conference on the prevention and control of major animal diseases in spring to deeply analyze the current prevention and control situation and arrange arrangements for the prevention and control of major animal diseases in spring. Yu Kangzhen, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, stressed at the meeting that it is necessary to highlight the key points, do a solid job in spring prevention, and strive to ensure that major regional animal epidemics and major food quality and safety incidents of animal origin do not occur.

Yu Kangzhen pointed out that doing a good job in the prevention and control of major animal diseases is related to the effective supply of animal products and the continuous increase of farmers' income. This year, the epidemic situation of animal diseases is becoming more and more complex, and the uncertain factors from outside are increasing. The traditional way of production and life has not been fundamentally changed, and it is still an important factor restricting the prevention and control of animal diseases, and there are still some weak links in the prevention and control work in some areas, the epidemic situation is more severe, and the task of prevention and control is more arduous.

Yu Kangzhen stressed that this year's spring prevention should focus on the following work: first, we should focus on basic immunization. We will continue to carry out compulsory immunization against highly pathogenic avian influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, highly pathogenic porcine blue ear disease and classical swine fever. A regional immunization policy shall be implemented for small ruminants. The spring centralized immunization work was launched in an all-round way on March 6 and is expected to be completed in early May. Second, give prominence to monitoring and early warning. In accordance with the national surveillance plan, surveillance will be carried out around priority prevention and control diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza and brucellosis, so as to improve the pertinence and initiative of surveillance. Third, we should give prominence to supervision and law enforcement. We will further strengthen the supervision of the transportation of live livestock and poultry, establish and improve the animal health risk assessment mechanism, and take the results of monitoring and risk analysis as an important basis for the transportation of livestock products. Quarantine shall be carried out in strict accordance with the slaughtering and quarantine regulations. We will comprehensively improve the information level of veterinary health supervision and management. Fourth, we should give prominence to border epidemic prevention. Adhere to the "internal prevention and external blocking", and strive to build epidemic prevention barriers in border areas. We will promote the construction of epidemic-free areas and biosafety isolation zones, actively support pilot projects for cooperation in the prevention and control of cross-border animal diseases, and resolutely prevent the introduction of external diseases. Fifth, prominently make all kinds of emergency preparedness. We will further improve the plan, make emergency preparations, and strictly implement the system of 24-hour emergency duty and leadership to ensure the smooth flow of information. Sixth, do a good job in the prevention and control of key zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis and diarrhea in pigs, strengthen comprehensive epidemic prevention management, and improve the biosafety level of farms. At the same time, we should also do a good job in the prevention and control of H7N9 influenza and small ruminants.

Yu Kangzhen stressed that all localities should innovate their ideas and, while earnestly doing a good job in spring prevention, strive to do a good job in several other key tasks: first, they should comprehensively promote administration according to law in the veterinary field, and use the thinking and means of the rule of law to actively and steadily promote the building of the veterinary legal system and standardize administrative law enforcement. Second, it is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the management of livestock and poultry slaughtering, further promote the adjustment of slaughtering supervision responsibilities, and carry out special rectification in an all-round way to effectively ensure the quality and safety of listed meat products. Third, we should comprehensively do a good job in the supervision and management of veterinary drugs, continue to carry out special regulation activities on the operation and use of veterinary antimicrobials and standardize the labeling instructions of veterinary drugs, comprehensively deal with the problem of veterinary drug residues, and improve the level of food safety of animal origin.