2017 Key Work Points for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Work in Shanxi Province
In order to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Rural Work Conference, the National Agricultural Work Conference, the Provincial Rural Work Conference and the Agricultural Work Conference, solidly carry out all animal husbandry and veterinary work in 2017, and orderly advance the construction of modern animal husbandry, these key points are hereby formulated.
I. Overall Approach
In 2017, animal husbandry and veterinary work across the province must conscientiously implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee, firmly establish the development concepts of “innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing”, deeply advance supply-side structural reform of the animal husbandry industry, vigorously promote quality improvement and efficiency enhancement of the animal husbandry industry, accelerate the pace of modernization of the animal husbandry industry, raise the level of livestock product quality and safety, strengthen prevention and control of major animal diseases, strengthen the systematic development of animal husbandry and veterinary services, strive to open up a new situation in animal husbandry and veterinary work, and endeavor to achieve the goals of “ensuring supply, ensuring safety, ensuring ecology and ensuring income growth”.
II. Key Work
(1) Focus on optimizing the structure of the animal husbandry industry
1. Strengthen leading industries. In accordance with the industrial development approach of “increasing pigs, stabilizing chickens, and developing grass-eating livestock such as cattle, sheep and donkeys”, revise and improve the province's animal husbandry development plan, formulate development plans for the pig, chicken, cattle, sheep and donkey industries, and further clarify the thinking for the development of the province's animal husbandry industry. Seize the favorable opportunity of “raising pigs in the south, moving to the north” and high price operation, and rely on large enterprises to develop large-scale and efficient pig farming. Continue to stabilize poultry production. Develop grass-eating livestock such as cattle, sheep and donkeys, promote the “breeding in the mountains, raising in the plains” model, expand the population of basic female livestock, and stabilize the foundation for the development of grass-eating livestock. Build high-quality milk source bases, develop moderately scaled family farms, expand the planting area of high-quality forage grass, and promote the revitalization of the dairy industry.
2. Cultivate emerging industries. In accordance with the approach of “targeting market weaknesses and implementing differentiated development”, actively introduce world-class enterprises to invest in and build production enterprises in the province for feed additives, veterinary drug raw materials, enzyme preparations, biological products, forage processing, organic fertilizer, etc., and form a group of emerging animal husbandry pillar industries. At the same time, strengthen the integration and transformation of existing feed, veterinary drug and other production enterprises in the province, eliminate low-end products and outdated production capacity, and form a group of flagship enterprises.
3. Strengthen basic industries. Implement the high-quality breeding livestock and poultry cultivation project, formulate breeding plans for pigs, chickens, cattle and sheep, clarify breeding directions, select breeding methods, and lay a solid foundation for breeding new livestock and poultry varieties suitable for the province's development needs. Strengthen the protection and utilization of high-quality livestock and poultry breed resources, do a good job in protecting Taihang goats, Mashen pigs, Shanxi black pigs, Jinnan cattle, etc., promote efficient breeding technologies based mainly on “Jinfen white pigs” and “Jinlan cashmere goats”, and build a domestic high-quality breeding livestock and poultry supply base.
(2) Focus on the construction of the farming-pastoral ecotone in the Yanmen Pass area
1. Increase efforts in converting grain to feed. Expand the scope of subsidies for converting grain to feed. On the basis of adjusting and optimizing the 10 original national pilot counties for converting grain to feed, including Shanyin County and Tianzhen County, further expand the implementation scope of converting grain to feed, with each county having an area of no less than 20,000 mu. Formulate the Measures for the Management of Funds for Converting Grain to Feed, issue the Measures for Performance Assessment of Converting Grain to Feed in Shanxi Province, and complete the acceptance of the 2016 and 2017 converting grain to feed work. Organize large-scale dairy cattle farms, beef cattle farms and mutton sheep farms in the pilot areas to connect with forage production enterprises, farmers' professional cooperatives and forage growers to improve the production and utilization rate of forage. Cultivate specialized service organizations and specialized sales enterprises for forage harvesting and storage, explore the establishment of large-scale and commercialized utilization models for high-quality forage, and support the construction of 2-3 specialized forage purchasing and processing enterprises.
2. Accelerate the development of the grass and livestock industry. Continue to do a good job in building Shuozhou City as a pilot city for the grass and livestock industry, summarize cases, refine models and promote pilot experience. Datong and Shuozhou each complete 100,000 mu of forage planting, and each county begins to cultivate 1—2 advantageous and characteristic industrial bases of more than 100,000 mu. Shuozhou, Datong, Xinzhou and Lvliang each build one grass-livestock integration demonstration site.
3. Promote the construction of industrial agglomeration areas. Datong, Shuozhou, Xinzhou and Lvliang each start construction of 1—2 industrial agglomeration areas, and introduce a group of enterprises engaged in agricultural and livestock product processing, packaging, logistics, research and development, etc. to settle in the parks.
4. Complete pilot planning guidance. Shuozhou, Datong, Xinzhou and Lvliang, as well as Loufan County in Taiyuan, all complete the compilation of plans, and after approval by the provincial government, report them to the Ministry of Agriculture for filing. Actively connect with the Ministry of Agriculture, summarize and improve the pilot work, and host well the National Northern Farming-Pastoral Ecotone Construction On-Site Meeting held in the province.
(3) Focus on transforming the development mode of the animal husbandry industry
1. Strengthen standardization construction. Continue to implement the animal husbandry industry upgrading project, and increase efforts in building standardized large-scale farms and family farms. Organize the compilation of standardized breeding manuals for pigs, laying hens, broiler chickens, beef cattle, dairy cattle, cashmere goats, mutton sheep and donkeys, forming standardized guidance for the entire process from entry to exit, from feeding management to input use, and from production to epidemic prevention. Organize the creation of national standardized livestock and poultry breeding demonstrations, green development demonstration counties for animal husbandry, and grassroots animal husbandry technology promotion demonstration counties, select more than 10 breeding enterprises to participate in standardized livestock and poultry breeding demonstration creation activities, and strive to win the title of more than 5 grassroots animal husbandry technology promotion demonstration counties.
2. Strengthen grassland protection and construction. Implement the new round of grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy, and improve the “13th Five-Year Plan” ecological subsidy and reward implementation plan. Do a good job in formulating the implementation plan for the new round of returning farmland to forest and grassland, and complete the task of returning farmland to grassland of 68,000 mu in Lvliang City. Do a good job in grassland fire prevention, grassland rodent and insect pest prevention and control, grassland monitoring, etc., and issue the Emergency Plan for Grassland Fires. Carry out regional introduction trials of 52 grass varieties at 5 grassland regional experimental stations in the province, and screen forage varieties suitable for animal husbandry development and ecological construction in different types of regions in the province.
3. Strengthen the treatment of livestock and poultry manure pollution. Summarize and promote development models suitable for manure pollution treatment and comprehensive utilization in large-scale livestock and poultry farms in the province, focus on carrying out centralized treatment and resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure in major livestock and poultry breeding counties, support large-scale farms in supporting the construction of facilities for storage, treatment and utilization of livestock and poultry manure and sewage, and strive to complete the task of building manure treatment facilities for 700 large-scale livestock and poultry farms.
(4) Focus on consolidating the foundation for the safe development of the animal husbandry industry
1. Highlight the prevention and control of animal diseases. Implement the national policy on adjusting and improving animal disease prevention and control, do a good job in compulsory immunization against foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis, avian influenza and peste des petits ruminants, strengthen immunization against classical swine fever, highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome and Newcastle disease of chickens, and each city selects 2—3 large-scale farms to carry out pilot work on “vaccinate first, subsidize later” immunization. Implement the responsibility system of “division into areas and contracting” for basic immunization against animal diseases, and establish a system in which each county's animal husbandry bureau director contracts 2—3 key townships and other directors contract 1—2 townships. Carry out animal disease purification and creation activities, enhance emergency response capacity for sudden major animal epidemics, improve the cold chain system for major animal disease immunization vaccines, strengthen the construction of veterinary laboratory monitoring capacity and biosafety management, and comprehensively improve disease prevention and control capacity. Implement responsibility management and performance assessment systems for major animal disease prevention and control, strengthen supervision over the implementation of the responsibility system, and ensure that the responsibility system for major animal disease prevention and control is fully implemented.
2. Effectively do a good job in animal health supervision and law enforcement. Consolidate the foundation of origin quarantine, strictly control slaughter quarantine, organize and carry out province-wide animal health supervision technology competitions, and improve the professional skills and comprehensive quality of official veterinarians. Promote the Shanxi Smart Animal Supervision Information Platform to cover all cities and counties in the province, and improve the informatization level of animal health supervision. Strengthen supervision over the cross-provincial movement of live livestock and poultry, and deeply carry out special rectification actions for cross-provincial introduction of dairy and breeding animals and animal diagnosis and treatment activities. Strengthen the construction of the animal identification and animal product traceability system, strengthen the harmless treatment of dead and diseased livestock and poultry, accelerate the pace of building professional harmless treatment sites (plants), guide social capital to invest in the construction of harmless treatment sites (plants), standardize the application and use procedures for harmless treatment subsidy funds, and improve the linkage mechanism between breeding industry insurance and harmless treatment. Standardize law enforcement activities, establish and improve the whole-process recording system for administrative law enforcement, standardize case transfer procedures, organize and carry out province-wide animal health supervision law enforcement case file review activities, and improve law enforcement capacity and level. Revise the Animal Epidemic Prevention Regulations of Shanxi Province and promulgate and implement them after deliberation by the Provincial People's Congress.
(5) Focus on strengthening industry safety supervision
1. Strengthen supervision of inputs. Comprehensively identify the situation of feed and veterinary drug production and operation enterprises in the province, severely crack down on illegal production and operation of feed and veterinary drugs, and include all feed and veterinary drug enterprises in the scope of supervision. Continue to carry out special rectification actions for feed and veterinary drugs, strengthen the linkage between inspection and cracking down, and severely punish acts of producing and using prohibited drugs. Do a good job in the batch release of veterinary biological products to ensure the quality and safety of major animal disease vaccines. Begin formulating production standards for feed and veterinary drugs, and investigate and deal with production enterprises that do not meet requirements. Create 15—20 provincial-level feed production demonstration enterprises. Establish and improve the feed monitoring mechanism with three-level linkage among the ministry, province and city.
2. Strengthen supervision of livestock products. Solidly carry out routine monitoring (risk monitoring) of livestock and poultry products, increase the intensity of routine monitoring of livestock and poultry products, and submit testing results on time and accurately in accordance with regulations. Implement the raw milk quality and safety monitoring plan, and adopt various methods such as unannounced monitoring and cross-regional sampling inspections to achieve full monitoring coverage. Continue to carry out special rectification actions for raw milk, strictly implement the “two random selections and one public disclosure” system, strengthen the review of qualification conditions of milk stations and transport vehicles, and severely crack down on illegal and non-compliant acts. Carry out dairy cattle performance testing (DHI), strictly submit test samples on time, and ensure completion of the task of performance testing for 30,000 dairy cows.
3. Strengthen supervision of livestock and poultry slaughter. Advance legislative management of the livestock and poultry slaughter industry, and formulate and issue the Regulations on the Administration of Livestock and Poultry Slaughter in Shanxi Province, the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Small Township Slaughter Sites, the Measures for the Administration of Entrusted Slaughter Operations of Livestock and Poultry, and the Development Plan for the Livestock and Poultry Slaughter Industry in Shanxi Province. Solidly carry out the “mine-clearing action” for pig slaughter. Deeply carry out the qualification cleanup work for livestock and poultry slaughter enterprises, and conduct comprehensive inspection and acceptance of slaughter enterprises across the province. Convene a province-wide on-site meeting on livestock and poultry slaughter, and organize slaughter enterprises to learn scientific and advanced slaughter and processing methods and operation and management experience.
(6) Focus on promoting income growth and efficiency enhancement in the animal husbandry industry
1. Do a good job in poverty alleviation through the animal husbandry industry. Implement the opinions on the implementation of industrial poverty alleviation of “one village, one product, one entity”, organize and implement the “8311” major industrial poverty alleviation project, and implement the tasks of developing the grass and livestock industry through converting 300,000 mu of grain to feed, poverty alleviation through the pig industry with 400,000 pigs, and poverty alleviation through donkey breeding with 30,000 donkeys. In combination with the regional layout of animal husbandry in the province, vigorously promote precise poverty alleviation models such as the cashmere goat “5222” breeding model, the mutton sheep “3122” breeding model, the borrow sheep and return sheep “15+1” model, and the pig “211” breeding model. Continue to carry out animal husbandry investment promotion, strengthen the cultivation of new business entities, strengthen incentive mechanisms for linking farmers and driving farmers, advance the establishment of a reasonable interest linkage mechanism between farmers and processing enterprises, and support farmers in sharing the returns from the development of secondary and tertiary industries. Vigorously expand the path of multifunctional development of the animal husbandry industry, and encourage the construction of leisure and sightseeing pastures.
2. Do a good job in statistical monitoring and early warning. Adjust and optimize the monitoring plans for livestock and poultry and feed production, and explore the establishment of point-to-point data exchange methods for farms and feed enterprises. Build a direct reporting information system for the filing management and pollution supervision of large-scale livestock and poultry breeding. Do a good job in training city and county monitoring information personnel, increase data verification and notification efforts, and ensure data quality. Regularly track and analyze the development situation of the industry, strengthen the submission of situation assessment information at key time points, promote the normalization and dynamism of monitoring data release, release early warning information in a timely manner, and improve service capacity.
III. System Development
(1) Strengthen the development of the animal husbandry and veterinary system. Carry out institutional investigation of the animal husbandry system, sort out the composition of the animal husbandry and veterinary workforce system, further improve work responsibilities, and strive for government support for system development. Actively explore ways to build the ranks of official veterinarians and practicing veterinarians, and improve the management system for practicing veterinarians. Adhere to the principle that “those who manage the industry must manage conduct”, implement and execute the “13710” and “three important and one large” work systems, and strictly administer according to law. Accelerate the development of the socialized service system, carry out pilots for “government purchase of services”, encourage various lawful market entities to establish service institutions in multiple forms, and provide high-quality and professional animal husbandry and veterinary services.
(2) Organize and carry out research activities. Organize and carry out special research on modern animal husbandry construction, construction of farming-pastoral ecotone demonstration zones, pilots for converting grain to feed and the grass and livestock industry, resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure, harmless treatment of dead and diseased livestock and poultry, and standardized healthy breeding of livestock and poultry, and form high-quality research reports. Organize personnel from animal husbandry departments at all levels, farm personnel and leading enterprise personnel to conduct research in other provinces, learn from advanced practices and typical experience, and improve the development level of the animal husbandry industry.
(3) Enhance technical service capacity. Carry out special training on animal husbandry policies, laws and regulations, project management, etc., with key training for personnel from provinces, cities, counties and relevant provincial departments, and improve policy execution. Actively build service systems for 7 major industries including pigs, broiler chickens, laying hens, dairy cattle, beef cattle, mutton sheep and cashmere goats, and join forces with the Department of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to jointly solve difficulties and problems encountered in industrial development. Organize an academician forum on “green and healthy breeding” in Jinzhong City, and conduct presentations around four topics: functional livestock products and animal husbandry economic development strategy, healthy breeding and efficient feed, resource utilization of breeding waste, and advancing converting grain to feed to accelerate the development of grass-eating animal husbandry in agricultural areas, so as to solve bottleneck problems restricting the development of the animal husbandry industry.
(4) Strengthen publicity and guidance. Implement the spirit of the Opinions of the Ministry of Agriculture on Strengthening Agricultural News and Public Opinion Work, give play to the role of provincial-level newspapers and periodicals such as Shanxi Daily, Shanxi Economic Daily and Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Guide, focus on key work such as the construction of the farming-pastoral ecotone in the Yanmen Pass area, the development of converting grain to feed and the grass and livestock industry, standardized livestock and poultry breeding, and implementation of the medium- and long-term plan for animal epidemic prevention, focus on important content such as industrial policies and situations of social concern, focus on major matters such as the “National Northern Farming-Pastoral Ecotone Shanxi On-Site Meeting”, and do a good job in policy interpretation and publicity guidance. Each city and county shall report no less than once throughout the year, and this shall be included in the annual assessment content.