Anhui Province 13th Five-Year Plan for Animal Husbandry Development

In accordance with the spirit of the “13th Five-Year Plan” for Agricultural and Rural Economic Development of Anhui Province, and centering on the requirements of the relevant special plans of the Ministry of Agriculture on animal husbandry, this plan is formulated in light of the actual development of the animal husbandry industry in our province.

I. The Foundation of Animal Husbandry Development and the Situation Faced

(1) Achievements made during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period

During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, in advancing the development of the agricultural and rural economy, our province always took the structural adjustment of the animal husbandry industry as the main task in promoting the development of modern animal husbandry. Through in-depth implementation of the animal husbandry upgrading plan, the industry maintained stable and healthy development, and modern animal husbandry was further enhanced.

First, the total economic volume of animal husbandry continued to grow. In 2015, the total output of meat, eggs and milk in the province reached 5.831 million tons, an increase of 12.9% over 2010, with an average annual growth of 2.5%. The total output of meat, eggs and milk ranked 11th nationwide. The slaughter volumes of poultry and live pigs ranked 7th and 11th nationwide respectively. There were 21 national major pig-producing counties. The total output value of animal husbandry reached 125.9 billion yuan, accounting for 28.7% of the total agricultural output value, an increase of 45.5% over 2010, with an average annual growth of 7.8%. The annual processing output value of leading enterprises in livestock and poultry industrialization was 121.32 billion yuan (including feed processing), accounting for about 13.26% of the total processing output value of leading agricultural product enterprises.

Second, the industrial structure of animal husbandry continued to be optimized. The demonstration activities for standardized large-scale livestock and poultry breeding achieved remarkable results, and the structure of the animal husbandry industry was further optimized. By 2015, the province had 140 ministerial-level and 403 provincial-level standardized large-scale livestock and poultry breeding demonstration enterprises; the proportion of large-scale breeding in the province was 70%, an increase of 15 percentage points over 2010; the levels of improved breed varieties, facility-based production, standardized breeding, product safety and institutionalized epidemic prevention of livestock and poultry breeding enterprises above designated size were significantly raised, with the average “five modernizations” rate reaching 85%. Ecological and healthy livestock and poultry breeding achieved results. By 2015, 182 livestock and poultry breeding enterprises in the province (85 poultry and 97 livestock) had passed the pollution-free livestock product origin certification, 213 enterprises had passed pollution-free livestock product certification, 15 enterprises had obtained green food certification, and 21 enterprises had obtained organic food certification. The breed structure was further adjusted, with the proportion of meat, egg and milk output adjusted from 73:23:4 in 2010 to 72:23:5. Milk output grew at an average annual rate of 8.3%, maintaining rapid growth for five consecutive years. Grass-based animal husbandry developed rapidly. The industrialization process of livestock and poultry was further accelerated, and the number of integrated breeding-processing enterprises increased rapidly. By 2015, the province had 227 leading enterprises in livestock and poultry industrialization at or above the provincial level, including 12 at the national level; cooperative economic organizations were further developed, with 11,663 livestock cooperatives and 5,185 family farms in the province; the livestock exhibition economy was active; and the province cultivated a number of modern animal husbandry demonstration parks with distinctive industrial features, advanced facilities and equipment, flexible operating mechanisms and significant comprehensive benefits.

Third, the foundation for the development of the animal husbandry industry was further consolidated. The construction tasks of four major technical support platforms were completed: provincial animal husbandry production early-warning monitoring, animal disease prevention and control quarantine monitoring and forecasting, livestock product quality and safety inspection and testing, and animal husbandry production technology support. Five national-level pig core breeding farms, 1 bull station, 1 laying hen core breeding farm, and 1 laying hen multiplication farm were built; 26 new local livestock and poultry genetic resource conservation farms and 2 conservation areas were established; there were 792 breeding livestock and poultry farms at grandparent level or above, including 15 nucleus farms; there were 65 boar studs (stations) of a certain scale and level, including 15 modern improved-breed boar stations with an annual inventory of over 80 head; the layout of the province-wide pig artificial insemination network (stations) was completed, eliminating the phenomenon of mobile breeding. The Internet of Things for livestock and poultry was applied and promoted in some large-scale breeding enterprises. 70 municipal and county-level veterinary laboratories passed provincial-level assessment and acceptance. The province's long-term animal prevention mechanisms for compulsory immunization, monitoring and early warning, emergency response and regionalized management were basically established, and comprehensive prevention and control capabilities were significantly enhanced. There were 267 feed and feed additive production enterprises, with annual feed production capacity exceeding 5.2 million tons. There were 46 registered veterinary drug GMP production enterprises and 2,511 veterinary drug GSP operating enterprises.

Fourth, the quality and safety supervision system of animal husbandry was strengthened. A provincial-level review committee meeting review system for animal husbandry and veterinary administrative licensing was established; the special rectification and law enforcement supervision system for livestock product quality and safety became normalized; and the variety of supervised sampling and inspection of major livestock products and inputs continued to expand. The functions of designated pig slaughtering management were rationalized. The management level of veterinary drug and feed enterprises was raised; some counties and cities carried out pilot traceability of veterinary drug products; and the demonstration activities for feed quality and safety management standards were comprehensively carried out. Scientific responses to sudden human infection with H7N9 influenza and peste des petits ruminants outbreaks minimized the harm to animal husbandry production. The licensed veterinarian qualification examination achieved results, and the legal entities for animal epidemic prevention and animal health supervision in the province were basically established. In recent years, no major livestock product quality and safety accidents or regional major animal epidemics occurred.

Fifth, the resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure achieved remarkable results. Since the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the issue of livestock and poultry breeding pollution has aroused widespread social concern. The ammonia nitrogen and COD content produced by livestock and poultry breeding is the most important component of agricultural pollution sources, and has become a difficult point that must be tackled in building our province into a strong province with ecological civilization and in fulfilling the emission reduction plan issued by the State Council. By strengthening cooperation with the Provincial Department of Environmental Protection, in accordance with the recommended model for livestock and poultry emission reduction, and focusing on the construction of livestock and poultry pollution reduction engineering projects, project supervision and inspection were strengthened. The supporting rate of manure treatment facilities in large-scale breeding farms included in the emission reduction task in the province reached 72%. Eight practical technical specifications for livestock and poultry manure treatment and resource utilization were summarized and promoted. Five on-site meetings on manure resource utilization were held successively, and 2,000 person-times of animal husbandry technology extension personnel at all levels were trained. Ten person-times of well-known domestic experts were hired to introduce technical models and treatment methods for comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry waste. The comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry breeding manure in the province was close to 60%. The harmless treatment of livestock and poultry entered the right track, among which the harmless treatment of dead pigs presented a mechanism mainly based on large-scale breeding enterprises and supplemented by centralized treatment at the county level.

Sixth, innovation in the development of the animal husbandry industry was actively promoted. Ten provincial-level and five national-level new livestock and poultry breeds (complete sets of lines) were successively cultivated. Industry research results won 2 first prizes and 7 second prizes for provincial and ministerial-level science and technology progress awards. The “Anhui Province Integrated Technical Manual for Standardized Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry Breeding” was compiled. The application rate of integrated standardized large-scale breeding technology reached 82.6%, and the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress in animal husbandry reached 60%. Centering on breaking through the bottleneck problems restricting animal husbandry development, effective results were achieved in exploring and carrying out pilot work on financial support for animal husbandry development innovation in five aspects: loan interest subsidies, guarantee fee subsidies, pig price index insurance, poultry breeding risk insurance and loan insurance.

Seventh, the policy system promoting animal husbandry development was increasingly perfected. Over the past five years, documents issued by the provincial government or the General Office of the Provincial Government included the “Anhui Province Provincial Medium- and Long-Term Animal Disease Prevention and Control Plan (2012-2020)” (Wan Zheng Ban Mi [2012] No. 136), “Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Beef Cattle and Mutton Sheep Industry” (Wan Zheng Ban [2013] No. 33), “Notice on Stabilizing the Development of Poultry Production” (Wan Zheng Ming Dian [2013] No. 2), “Opinions on Promoting the Stable and Healthy Development of Pig Production” (Wan Zheng Ban Mi [2014] No. 270), and “Opinions on Strengthening the Protection and Utilization of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources and Promoting the Development of the Livestock and Poultry Seed Industry” (Wan Zheng Ban Mi [2015] No. 231), etc. These further clarified from a legal perspective the government's approach to supporting animal husbandry development, strengthened development measures, and systematically established the policy system for supporting animal husbandry development during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and beyond, becoming a strong policy guarantee for promoting the stable and healthy development of animal husbandry. The policy of granting seniority subsidies to rural veteran veterinarians was implemented.

(2) The current situation faced by animal husbandry development in our province

With economic and social development, higher requirements have been put forward for the development of modern animal husbandry. Accelerating the development of modern animal husbandry involves both favorable conditions and difficulties and challenges. But on the whole, advantages outweigh disadvantages, and opportunities outweigh challenges. Forging ahead amid difficulties and developing amid challenges is the only way to accelerate the rapid development of modern animal husbandry.

1. Problems and challenges

First, the proportion of output value is not high, and the industrial structure needs further optimization. The proportion of animal husbandry output value has been below 30% for many years, still a considerable gap compared with the average of 60% in developed countries. In the production structure, the proportion of pigs is relatively high, while the total output of herbivorous livestock and poultry products is relatively low. In product supply, there are many primary products and few deep-processed products. The processing output value of animal husbandry accounts for only 13.5% of the total processing output value of agricultural products.

Second, prices fluctuate frequently, and breeding efficiency needs further improvement. The selling prices of pork, poultry meat and milk in our province all exceed the import prices of the same period. At the same time, livestock product production has entered an era of high costs, with expenses for raw materials, labor, water and electricity showing an upward trend, and the comparative efficiency of the breeding industry declining markedly. The proportion of “three certifications and one geographical indication” livestock products is low, out of proportion to their market share.

Third, the integration of agriculture and animal husbandry is insufficient, and constraints on factor resources need further resolution. The disconnect between planting and breeding has not yet been fundamentally changed, and livestock and poultry breeding pollution still exists. The straw feed utilization rate in the province is less than 10%, and the resource utilization rate of large-scale livestock and poultry manure is less than 60%, with increasing pressure for prevention and control. The supply of industrial development factors such as land and finance is tight, and the disconnect between industry, academia and research and the building of a corps of entrepreneurs need further resolution.

Fourth, the quality and safety situation is severe, and law-based administration needs further deepening. Traditional breeding and modern breeding will coexist for a certain period, and the supervision of livestock product quality and safety involves many points and wide areas, with hidden dangers not fundamentally eliminated. The task of harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry is arduous, and the environment and conditions faced by animal disease prevention and control remain complex. The level of law-based administration and the building of law enforcement capacity in animal husbandry need further strengthening.

2. Opportunities and advantages

First, the policy orientation is clear. During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the provincial government successively issued policy documents supporting pigs, beef cattle, mutton sheep, poultry and the protection and utilization of livestock and poultry genetic resources, and the policy system supporting animal husbandry development was initially established. In response to new development opportunities, in 2015 the Provincial Agricultural Commission also issued policy guidance documents such as the “Implementation Plan for Carrying Out Five Major Demonstration Actions to Solidly Advance the Industrialization of Modern Ecological Agriculture” and the “Implementation Plan for the Research on Green, Low-Carbon and Circular Models of Animal Husbandry in Anhui Province”. These provided a clear and powerful development orientation and policy guarantee for the structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of animal husbandry in our province during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period.

Second, the location and resource advantages are obvious. The Yangtze River Delta region is densely populated and has a large demand for high-quality livestock products. Our province is adjacent to the Yangtze River Delta, so the transport distance for livestock products is short, product market recognition is high, and the competitive advantage is obvious. Our province has large total land resources and grassland resources, many types of usable feed resources, and great room for adjusting the three-element planting structure of grain, cash crops and feed. Livestock and poultry local breed resources are abundant, the climate conditions are suitable, and the potential for developing animal husbandry is great.

Third, the industrial foundation is good. Since the implementation of the animal husbandry upgrading plan, our province's industry has attained a certain scale, and the breeding volume of major livestock and poultry ranks among the top in the country. The “improved breeds, large-scale, high quality, industrialization and ecologicalization” of animal husbandry have been continuously advanced, the industrial quality has been significantly improved, and the development foundation of modern animal husbandry has been effectively consolidated.

Fourth, the system construction is complete. After the reform of the veterinary management system, the province's animal husbandry and veterinary administrative management, administrative law enforcement and animal husbandry and veterinary technical support systems were basically established, and the means and conditions have improved year by year.

II. Overall Approach, Development Goals and Main Tasks for the “13th Five-Year Plan” Period

(1) Overall approach

Deeply implement the development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, take the construction of modern animal husbandry with efficient output, safe products, resource conservation and environmental friendliness as the main direction, center on building the five major systems of modern animal husbandry, promote new breakthroughs in the supply-side structural reform of animal husbandry, achieve green efficiency improvement in animal husbandry and increase farmers' incomes, and improve the market competitiveness of livestock products and the sustainable development capacity of animal husbandry.

(2) Development goals

By 2020, the total output of meat, eggs and milk in the province will reach 5.9 million tons, of which the proportion of grain-saving herbivorous livestock products will increase by 1 percentage point each year; new progress will be made in the standardized construction of livestock and poultry, with the proportion of large-scale breeding reaching 75%; the proportion of large-scale breeding farms with supporting manure treatment facilities will reach over 75%, livestock and poultry manure will basically be resource-utilized, and a long-term mechanism for harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry will be basically established; and it will be ensured that no regional major animal epidemics occur and no major livestock product quality and safety accidents occur.

(3) Main tasks

Centering on the development of modern animal husbandry, accelerate the building of five major systems.

First, build the animal husbandry production system. Accelerate the construction of a modern livestock and poultry seed industry, strengthen the protection and utilization of livestock and poultry genetic resources, and promote seed industry innovation. Focus on promoting the development of facility-based animal husbandry and intelligent animal husbandry, and strive to raise the “five modernizations” level of livestock and poultry breeding.

Second, build the animal husbandry operating system. Build a modern animal husbandry operating system, vigorously develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, actively cultivate new types of animal husbandry operating entities, guide and support large breeding households, family farms, farmer cooperatives and leading enterprises to grow and strengthen, and gradually make them the leading force in developing modern animal husbandry. Vigorously develop pre-production, mid-production and post-production services for animal husbandry, and improve the socialized service system for animal husbandry.

Third, build the animal husbandry industrial system. Accelerate the advancement of large-scale breeding and cultivate high-quality livestock product bases; vigorously develop deep processing of livestock products and cultivate and strengthen industrial clusters; develop emerging circulation formats such as livestock product warehousing, preservation, logistics and e-commerce, and strengthen the construction of animal husbandry trading markets; actively broaden the multiple functions of animal husbandry and vigorously carry out industrialized operations.

Fourth, build the animal husbandry safety system. Firmly establish the awareness that safety is the bottom line of animal husbandry development, effectively carry out prevention and control of major animal diseases, and ensure public health safety; highlight the prevention and control of livestock and poultry breeding pollution to ensure ecological safety; strictly standardize the safety management of veterinary laboratories to ensure biosafety; and strengthen input management to ensure livestock product quality and safety.

Fifth, build the factor support system for animal husbandry. Solidly advance the construction of government-industry-academia-research-extension platforms, accelerate the promotion of advanced and practical technologies, especially improve the informatization level of animal husbandry, and strive to raise the level of scientific and technological support. Expand the pilot scope of policy-based insurance and the combination of policy-based and commercial insurance, explore upstream and downstream linked insurance, solve the problems of difficult and expensive financing, advance the internal integration of funds in animal husbandry, actively seek to channel agricultural funds toward animal husbandry, and strive to raise the level of financial support.

III. Key Engineering Projects

Centering on the development goals and main tasks of animal husbandry during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, and in conjunction with the implementation of the “Implementation Plan for the Research on Green, Low-Carbon and Circular Models of Animal Husbandry in Anhui Province”, ten projects will be organized and implemented to promote the continuous improvement of green, low-carbon and circular animal husbandry, achieve sustainable development, further consolidate the development foundation of modern animal husbandry, accelerate the transformation of the development mode of modern animal husbandry, and push the province's modern animal husbandry to a new level.

(1) Livestock and poultry improved breed enhancement project

With the goal of enhancing the core competitiveness of animal husbandry, cultivate new advantages for the development of a modern livestock and poultry seed industry, vigorously advance the construction of the livestock and poultry improved breed enhancement project, and provide strong support for the sustained and healthy development of modern animal husbandry.

1. Implement the pig genetic improvement plan. Organize the implementation of the “Anhui Province Pig Genetic Improvement Plan (2015-2020)” and accelerate the implementation of the “Implementation Scheme for the ‘Anhui Province Pig Genetic Improvement Plan (2015-2020)’”. Select provincial-level pig core breeding farms and establish a provincial-level pig core breeding farm consortium; establish a boar information database for core breeding farms and improve boar pedigree records; expand the coverage of boar production performance testing; further standardize the construction of boar studs and artificial insemination systems covering the whole province; accelerate the construction of a pig improved breed breeding system with clear generations, excellent breeds and meeting needs; establish a pig traceability system using QR codes as the carrier, and cultivate a high-quality boar industrial cluster; carry out genetic exchange and centralized genetic evaluation to continuously improve boar production performance. Make full use of high-quality local pig breed resources, carry out planned crossbreeding utilization, and encourage the cultivation of new breeds and complete sets of lines. By 2020, basically form a pig breeding system mainly based on inter-farm or regional joint breeding, establish the province's position as a strong province in boar production, and achieve the goal of sustainable development of the pig industry.

2. Launch genetic improvement plans for cattle, sheep and poultry. According to the industrial layout, centering on the production needs of beef cattle, mutton sheep and poultry, formulate the province's genetic improvement plans for beef cattle, mutton sheep and poultry. Select large-scale breeding farms with breeding capabilities, clarify pedigree relationships, build on-farm testing facilities, train breeding professionals, establish stable and orderly genetic exchange relationships between farms, and promote the level of improved breed breeding within the region. Select about 30 improved breed breeding farms or nucleus farms, systematically carry out performance testing, participate in regional joint breeding, and establish an improved breed multiplication system with clear generations and obvious advantages. Expand the national bull station and the provincial dairy cow production performance testing center, establish high-yield core dairy cow herds, promote dairy cow sex-controlled frozen semen technology, and carry out dairy herd improvement (DHI). Select 20 large-scale dairy farms to establish high-yield core dairy cow herds of 10,000 head. Advance the cultivation of a new line of high-fertility meat-type Anhui white goats.

3. Implement the 936 action for the protection and utilization of livestock and poultry genetic resources. Centering on key resources, strengthen overall planning, closely focus on the three key links of protection, monitoring and utilization, take breeds listed in national and provincial protection catalogs as the focus, and accelerate the construction of three types of entities: conservation farms, conservation areas and gene banks. According to the principles of giving priority to the place of origin and encouraging multi-point protection, build more than 40 provincial-level conservation farms in batches, establish more than 10 provincial-level conservation areas, and build a provincial livestock and poultry genetic resource gene bank. By 2020, strive to achieve a protection rate of over 90% for livestock and poultry genetic resources listed in national and provincial resource protection catalogs, strive to cultivate more than 3 national-level new livestock and poultry breeds or complete sets of lines using local livestock and poultry genetic resources, achieve an industrialized development ratio of over 60% for livestock and poultry genetic resources, cultivate and strengthen a number of leading enterprises in the livestock and poultry seed industry, and further improve the production capacity of high-quality livestock products and the competitiveness of the livestock and poultry seed industry.

(2) Industrial structure optimization and promotion project

Focus on optimizing the industrial structure, transforming the production mode, and steadily raising the comprehensive development level of livestock and poultry production in the province.

1. Adjust and optimize the layout of the animal husbandry industry. According to the development status, resource conditions, structural adjustment needs and main functional zone division, establish five advantageous livestock product production regions. Among them, stabilize the development of the pig and poultry industries. Select Bozhou, Fuyang, Suzhou, Bengbu, Huaibei, Hefei, Lu'an, Chuzhou, Xuancheng, Anqing and Huangshan, a total of 11 cities, as the province's advantageous pig development regions, and strive to achieve an annual pig slaughter volume accounting for over 80% of the province's total. In the Jianghuai and riverside areas, select Xuancheng, Hefei, Anqing, Lu'an, Chuzhou and Wuhu, 6 cities, as the province's advantageous meat poultry development regions. Make up for the shortcomings in the province's dairy cow development, incorporate dairy cow development into the overall consideration of animal husbandry development policies, steadily advance the development of the dairy cow industry, and select Hefei, Ma'anshan, Huainan, Chuzhou, Lu'an, Bengbu, Huaibei, Bozhou, Wuhu, Fuyang and Suzhou, 11 cities, as the province's advantageous dairy cow development regions. Accelerate the development of the beef cattle and mutton sheep industries, and select Bozhou, Fuyang, Suzhou, Bengbu, Huaibei, Huainan and Lu'an, 7 cities, as the province's advantageous beef cattle and mutton sheep development regions. Actively advance the development of beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding in the Jianghuai and southern Anhui mountainous areas. In the southern Anhui mountainous areas, select Huangshan and Xuancheng, and in the riverside nectar source areas, Hefei and Wuhu, 4 cities in total, as the province's advantageous bee product development regions.

2. Carry out standardized livestock and poultry demonstration creation. With “improved livestock and poultry breeds, facility-based breeding, standardized production, institutionalized epidemic prevention, harmless manure treatment and normalized supervision” as the main content, carry out the creation of standardized demonstration farms for pig, dairy cow, laying hen, meat poultry, beef cattle and mutton sheep breeding, launch the creation activity of demonstration counties for green animal husbandry development, and guide the healthy development of breeding enterprises. Encourage the construction of large standardized and intensive breeding farms, guide medium-sized breeding farms to upgrade and transform facilities and equipment, and support the standardized construction of appropriately scaled family breeding farms and breeding professional cooperatives. Starting from 2015, create 40 new ministerial- and provincial-level standardized livestock and poultry breeding demonstration farms each year, renovate 400 small and medium-sized livestock and poultry breeding farms, and increase the province's proportion of large-scale breeding by more than 1 percentage point annually.

(3) Grass-based animal husbandry development promotion project

With the industrialization of modern ecological agriculture as the guide, with vigorously developing herbivorous animal husbandry and accelerating the combination of planting and breeding as the key content, adjust and optimize the agricultural structure, and focus on implementing agricultural-livestock integration engineering projects.

1. Create modern ecological agriculture industrialization demonstration counties centering on the planting-breeding combination model. According to the requirements of the “Anhui Province Modern Ecological Agriculture Industrialization Construction Promotion Plan” (Wan Zheng Ban [2015] No. 73), solidly advance the creation of modern ecological agriculture industrialization demonstration counties with livestock and poultry as the leading industry. In eight provincial modern ecological agriculture industrialization construction planning counties, namely Lixin County, Si County, Wuhe County, Linquan County, Dingyuan County, Xuanzhou District, Nanling County and Wangjiang County, centering on county-level macro-circulation, respectively highlight one leading industry, formulate one development plan, determine one expert team and establish one indicator system, and explore models such as planting-breeding combination — pigs, planting-breeding combination — poultry, planting-breeding combination — dairy cows, planting-breeding combination — cattle and sheep, planting-breeding combination — pigs and poultry, and planting-breeding combination — rice-duck symbiosis. Through brand leadership, circular utilization and the integration of the three industries, explore and build a modern ecological agriculture industrialization development model integrating the animal husbandry product ecosystem, enterprise ecosystem and industrial ecosystem, create a modern ecological agriculture industrialization demonstration model area with the planting-breeding combination model, and promote the industrialization of ecological agriculture and the ecologicalization of the agricultural industry.

2. Carry out the southern modern grassland animal husbandry promotion action. Relying on the implementation of the national southern modern grassland animal husbandry promotion action project, and in accordance with the principles of increasing grass and livestock, matching grass with livestock, scientific utilization and environmental friendliness, vigorously develop southern modern grassland animal husbandry in our province, make full use of barren hills, slopes and beaches to carry out grassland improvement and artificial grass planting, encourage the use of winter fallow fields for grass planting and the carrying out of intercropping and relay intercropping of forage grass in farmland, determine planting by breeding, advance the matching of grass and livestock, and promote cattle and sheep breeding enterprises to establish stable forage and feed bases, enhancing their healthy, efficient and sustainable development. By 2020, strive to build 20 comprehensive development and utilization demonstration bases for southern modern grassland animal husbandry, and add 10,000 mu of artificial high-quality forage bases.

3. Carry out the pilot of converting grain to feed. Relying on the industrialization of modern ecological agriculture in Anhui Province, vigorously advance the coordinated development of the three-element planting structure of grain, cash crops and feed, and effectively solve the problem of insufficient supply of high-quality forage and feed. Further optimize the regional layout. In the northern Anhui region, rationally adjust the planting structure, expand the area of high-quality and high-yield feed and forage crops, and promote the coordinated development of the three-element planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage; in the Jianghuai hilly region, the Dabie Mountain area and the southern Anhui mountainous area, give full play to the resource advantages of grassy hills and slopes, develop herbivorous livestock and poultry, and through using livestock to drive grass and increasing grass and livestock, rapidly raise the proportion of grain-saving herbivorous animal husbandry. Integrate existing national straw-fed livestock demonstration projects, high-yield and high-quality alfalfa demonstration projects and provincial special funds for animal husbandry and grain industries, and actively seek national pilot projects for converting grain to feed. By 2020, achieve 1 million mu of dedicated silage corn planted in support of livestock and poultry breeding; 10 mu of alfalfa planting retained area; and 1 million mu of grass planted in winter fallow fields.

(4) Feed industry modernization promotion project

Accelerate the development of the feed industry and focus on implementing the feed industry modernization promotion project. By 2020, the province's total feed output will reach over 6 million tons, an increase of about 11% over the end of the “12th Five-Year Plan” period.

1. Accelerate scientific and technological progress and innovation in feed. By researching efficient and safe feed production technologies, gradually build a province-wide feed industry technological innovation system, raise the industrial technology level, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in feed production, feed safety testing and evaluation, development and research of safe and environmentally friendly feed additives, and development and utilization of feed resources. By strengthening the research, development, production and application of new feed additives such as enzyme preparations, microbial preparations, organic trace elements and plant extracts, develop high-quality, safe and efficient feed products. Through the automation and intelligent construction of factory production, promote the modernization of feed industry management.

2. Build feed industrialization consortiums. On the basis of comprehensively implementing the “Feed Quality and Safety Management Standards”, encourage feed enterprises to integrate and merge through mergers and acquisitions, industrial alliances and other forms, and develop on-demand research and development and order-based production models. Support feed production enterprises in extending their industrial chains to feed raw material production, livestock, poultry and aquatic breeding, and livestock product processing, and form communities of interests with breeding households through contracts, equity cooperation and other means, enhancing risk resistance and sustainable development capacity. Vigorously cultivate feed industry associations, strive to build a feed industry integrity system and industry quality management system, and enhance the sustainable development capacity of the feed industry.

3. Advance the industrialized utilization of feed corn. Gradually expand the planting area of feed corn in major corn-producing areas such as northern Anhui. Use the remaining storage capacity of existing grain collection and storage enterprises and comprehensive support policies such as financial loans and interest subsidies to support and promote feed processing enterprises in actively purchasing corn produced in the province as feed processing raw materials. Vigorously support whole-plant corn silage. Gradually solve the key problems in the supply-side links of corn planting in our province (corn varieties, cultivation techniques, timely harvest, etc.) and the industrialized utilization links (rapid drying technology after corn harvest, selection of storage entities, transport radius, efficiency comparison of feed enterprises, utilization of bulk feed, etc.), laying the foundation for large-scale utilization.

(5) Animal husbandry industrialization enhancement project

Adhere to a market-oriented approach, and enhance the level of animal husbandry industrialization through brand leadership and the integration of the three industries.

1. Cultivate a number of animal husbandry industrialization consortiums. Actively guide and support leading animal husbandry enterprises, family farms and livestock and poultry breeding professional cooperatives in forming livestock and poultry industrialization consortiums through industrial, factor and interest linkages. Advance the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries and the integration of production, processing and sales, cultivate a number of leading agro-pastoral industrialization enterprises with brand reputation, and build close enterprise alliances across the entire industrial chain. Accelerate meat processing, and encourage advantageous pig regions, in accordance with the layout plan, to build modern pig slaughtering and meat processing enterprises with a high starting point, large scale and new mechanisms through investment promotion, social financing and other forms. Support a number of demonstration consortiums on a selective basis, further integrate the industrial chain, factor chain and interest chain, and lead and drive the common development of new types of agricultural operating entities. By 2020, the number of animal husbandry industrialization consortiums in the province will reach 150, including 20 provincial-level demonstration consortiums.

2. Cultivate a number of well-known livestock product brands. Build regional public brands and well-known enterprise brands for animal husbandry, win the market with brands, lead consumption with the market, and use consumption to force circulation, processing, production and production areas. Implement the “Green Wan Nong” brand cultivation plan, and encourage various operating entities to strive for China Well-Known Trademarks, Anhui Famous Trademarks and Anhui Famous Brand Products. Increase intellectual property protection, focus on safeguarding the value of time-honored livestock product brands and regional public brands, and enhance the social credibility of brands. With the certification and management of pollution-free agricultural products, green food, organic agricultural products and geographical indications of agricultural products, namely “three certifications and one geographical indication”, as the starting point, actively advance standardized agricultural production. Make full use of platforms such as agricultural trade fairs to intensively promote a number of well-known livestock product brands. Strive to add 10 new animal husbandry-related well-known trademarks, Anhui Famous Trademarks and Anhui Famous Brand Products in the province by 2020.

(6) Comprehensive animal disease prevention and control project

Adhere to the principle of “prevention first, comprehensive prevention and control”, promote scientific prevention and control of animal diseases, and by 2020 form a comprehensive animal disease prevention and control capacity that is compatible with building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and effectively guarantees the safety of breeding production, animal product quality and public health.

1. Animal disease purification system. Carry out purification projects for major animal diseases in grandparent and parent stock breeding farms, strengthen monitoring, ensure that commercial generation offspring do not carry major animal disease pathogens, and reduce the use of vaccines and chemical drugs in large-scale breeding farms.

2. Green disease prevention and control system. Promote new ecological prevention and control technologies and reduce the use of antibiotics and disinfectants. Establish biosafety isolation zones in qualified farms, villages, townships and counties. On the basis of continuing pilot construction of safe pastures, expand the pilot scope.

3. Animal epidemic early-warning system. Establish an animal epidemic monitoring and epidemiological investigation network with the provincial, municipal and county-level animal disease prevention and control centers as the main body, 9 national epidemic monitoring and reporting stations and 5 provincial-level poultry disease monitoring laboratories as supplements, and monitoring points in villages, breeding farms, slaughterhouses and trading venues as support, with clear division of labor and reasonable layout. Strengthen the infrastructure construction of animal disease laboratories at all levels, improve instruments and equipment, increase monitoring items and content, and raise the biosafety level.

4. Harmless treatment system for dead animals. Accelerate the construction of centralized treatment facilities to centrally treat dead pigs from breeding farms and households with an annual slaughter volume of less than 3,000 head and from other links. Improve the treatment facilities of designated pig slaughterhouses and large-scale breeding farms, for the harmless treatment of dead animals and dead animal products from designated pig slaughterhouses and existing large-scale breeding farms with an annual slaughter volume of 3,000 head or more (including 3,000 head). Simultaneously build harmless treatment facilities for the harmless treatment of dead animals and dead animal products from newly built large-scale breeding farms and designated slaughterhouses.

(7) Livestock product quality and safety guarantee project

In response to the weak links in livestock product quality and safety, focus on strengthening the construction of the “four major systems”: the quality and safety standards system, the testing and monitoring system, the quality traceability system and the safety risk assessment system.

1. Quality and safety standards system. Increase the formulation (revision) of local standards for animal husbandry and research on major technical standards, and improve the industry standards system as soon as possible. Formulate and improve a number of standards for the safe production and monitoring of livestock products, and promote their implementation. Support and encourage leading enterprises and bases to formulate product production technical operating procedures and standardize production behavior.

2. Testing and monitoring system. According to the requirements of provincial-level focusing on technology research and development, municipal-level focusing on quantitative monitoring and county-level focusing on qualitative monitoring, expand the provincial livestock product quality and safety monitoring center, and establish and improve livestock product quality and safety monitoring stations and 90 county-level quality inspection stations.

3. Quality traceability system. Upgrade the Anhui Province Livestock Product Quality and Safety Monitoring and Quality Traceability Management Information System, improve the construction of the Anhui Province Animal Health Supervision Information Management Platform and the Anhui Province Animal and Animal Product Quarantine Electronic Certificate Issuance Platform, build a meat product safety traceability system supervision platform, and build a province-wide livestock product quality and safety traceability system that enables production records to be stored, product flows to be tracked, counterfeit and inferior products to be recalled, and storage and transportation information to be queried.

4. Safety risk assessment system. Establish a province-wide risk assessment basic database with one province-wide risk assessment data processing platform as the center and livestock product quality and safety monitoring data entry points in 90 cities and counties as support, achieve full sharing of information resources, and provide support for risk monitoring and safety assessment.

(8) Livestock and poultry manure resource utilization project

Actively explore new models combining large-scale breeding with farmland utilization, promote livestock and poultry breeding manure treatment and comprehensive utilization technologies, and strive to achieve basic resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure from large-scale breeding farms.

1. Carry out research on livestock and poultry manure resource utilization models. Carry out pilot demonstrations of planting-breeding combination mechanism innovation. Newly built breeding farms shall be equipped with farmland of a corresponding proportion according to the number of livestock, to absorb and take in manure nearby and on site; encourage existing breeding farms to allocate agricultural land matching the amount of manure produced; focus on cultivating professional livestock and poultry manure treatment and comprehensive resource utilization enterprises to provide socialized services to small and medium-sized livestock and poultry breeding enterprises. Implement comprehensive nutrient management plans for livestock and poultry manure, solve key technical points such as manure fertilization, manure storage and farmland application, and through composting treatment and biogas treatment of manure, promote the scientific utilization of livestock and poultry manure as farmyard manure, forming a green, low-carbon and circular development model of planting-breeding combination, agricultural-livestock integration and circular utilization.

2. Carry out county-wide demonstration of manure resource utilization. According to the principles of voluntary participation, demonstration first, resource integration and county-wide advancement, advance county-wide livestock and poultry breeding farm manure resource utilization in some cities and counties first. According to the development approach of agricultural-livestock integration and ecological circulation, with the promotion and application of four models, namely planting-breeding combination, organic fertilizer production, clean recycling and fermentation bed breeding, as the focus, turn waste into treasure and harm into benefit, strive to achieve manure resource utilization of large-scale livestock and poultry breeding farms within the county, achieve the organic integration of breeding development and environmental protection, and promote the sustainable development of modern animal husbandry. By 2020, strive for 1 city and 20 counties to achieve county-wide advancement of livestock and poultry manure resource utilization.

3. Carry out comprehensive treatment of livestock and poultry manure. In severely polluted large-scale pig, dairy cow and beef cattle breeding farms and breeding-intensive areas, according to the approach of dry-wet separation, rain-sewage diversion, planting-breeding combination and circular utilization, build a number of facilities for on-site collection, storage and transfer of livestock and poultry manure, centralized composting or energy utilization of solid manure, and efficient biological treatment of sewage, as well as organic fertilizer processing plants. Actively promote technical models for livestock and poultry breeding manure treatment and comprehensive utilization, and build, with the county as the unit, a number of demonstration points for waste treatment and resource utilization of large-scale livestock and poultry breeding farms and facilities for livestock and poultry manure treatment and organic fertilizer production in breeding-intensive areas. By 2020, in accordance with the requirements of manure resource utilization, focus on building 300 demonstration projects for large-scale livestock and poultry breeding manure resource utilization.

(9) Animal husbandry technology promotion and application project

With accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development mode as the guide, with the “Animal Husbandry Science and Technology into Ten Thousand Homes” activity as the platform, with the research on green, low-carbon and circular models of animal husbandry as the starting point, and with science and technology promotion demonstration actions as the means, solidly carry out animal husbandry science and technology promotion work.

1. Carry out the “Animal Husbandry Science and Technology into Ten Thousand Homes” activity. Continue to jointly carry out the “Animal Husbandry Science and Technology into Ten Thousand Homes” activity with the Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Provincial Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, the Provincial Association for Science and Technology and the Provincial Women's Federation. Each year, organize 2,000 animal husbandry and veterinary technical experts in a targeted manner to investigate and understand the scientific and technological needs of breeding households, pair up to assist large-scale breeding farms, and promote the main recommended breeds and main recommended technologies of animal husbandry. Establish a post responsibility system, a dynamic personnel management system and a work assessment and evaluation system, and strengthen follow-up, inspection, evaluation and commendation.

2. Carry out demonstration and promotion of main recommended technologies. Publish the annual leading breeds and main recommended technologies of animal husbandry. Relying on modern agricultural demonstration zones, agricultural industrialization demonstration zones, modern ecological agriculture industrialization demonstration zones and livestock and poultry standardization demonstration creation projects, carry out experimental demonstrations of new main recommended technologies of animal husbandry. Through the integrated demonstration of advanced and practical technologies in fields such as efficient utilization of animal husbandry resources, matching of improved breeds with improved methods and improved machinery, comprehensive ecological environment treatment, and Internet information, carry out the construction of demonstration points such as industrialized utilization models of feed corn, silage corn utilization in large-scale pastures, planting-breeding combination models, and manure resource utilization models of large-scale livestock and poultry breeding farms, and form replicable and promotable application models of new main recommended technologies of animal husbandry.

3. Accelerate the training of animal husbandry talent. Accelerate the training and introduction of various management and professional talents, strengthen training, and take improving the overall quality of animal husbandry practitioners as the core driving force for transforming the development mode of animal husbandry. In conjunction with the veterinary professional examination, train 1,000 grassroots animal husbandry and veterinary technical personnel each year to improve technical service capabilities. In conjunction with new-type professional farmer training, train 2,000 rural large breeding households and breeding enterprise owners each year to improve professional skills and scientific and cultural quality, and enhance employment and entrepreneurial capabilities.

(10) Animal husbandry informatization foundation project

With the application of information technology as the support, with enhancing information service capabilities as the focus, promote the informatization of animal husbandry production and operation, and continuously raise the informatization level of animal husbandry in our province. By 2020, build a fully functional and applicable provincial unified comprehensive information platform and a comprehensive e-commerce service platform for animal husbandry, and cultivate a number of new-type farmers with information literacy, playing a boosting role in achieving scientific management, resource conservation, environmental friendliness and significant benefits.

1. Establish an informatization management platform. Strengthen the construction of the provincial animal husbandry information platform, and build a shared information resource database, mainly including livestock and poultry breeds, production and operation, quality and safety supervision, market information, scientific and technological information, and expert talent information, etc. Improve and upgrade the province-wide animal husbandry production early-warning information platform, especially strengthen the dynamic monitoring of the production, market operation and cost-benefit status of major livestock and poultry products such as pigs, strengthen the construction of the animal husbandry production and market monitoring system, strengthen analysis, early warning and information release, and strengthen the construction of the data collection and reporting system and the training of information collection personnel; actively advance the construction of the animal husbandry science and technology promotion cloud platform, the breeding livestock and poultry traceability system, the large-scale breeding farm information management platform, and the large-scale poultry farm environmental automatic control management system; build the provincial livestock and poultry genetic resource monitoring and evaluation center, sub-centers and monitoring points; and build the livestock product quality traceability system.

2. Implement the “Internet + Animal Husbandry” promotion action. Use big data technology platforms to actively advance the development of animal husbandry e-commerce. Establish a province-wide livestock and poultry market price information release platform, and build a comprehensive animal husbandry information system covering livestock product market conditions, supply and demand, and transportation information for the whole society. Promote the establishment of a province-wide animal husbandry Internet of Things industry alliance and build an Internet of Things application incubation and support base. Establish a livestock product marketing network and support the creation of “Internet + Feed Breeding + Social Organizations” e-commerce platforms. Carry out Internet informatization talent training.

IV. Safeguard Measures

(1) Strengthen organizational leadership. Animal husbandry departments at all levels shall establish leading groups for promoting animal husbandry development, continue to implement the spirit of the policy documents promoting animal husbandry development issued by the state and the provincial party committee and provincial government (General Office of the Provincial Government) during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, strengthen organizational leadership, clarify development goals, research and formulate implementation plans, and effectively implement all policies and measures guaranteeing the sustained, stable and healthy development of animal husbandry. Actively seek the support of local party committees and governments for animal husbandry development work. Animal husbandry and veterinary institutions at all levels are the main departments implementing the “Plan”, and shall comprehensively implement the spirit of the “Plan”, fulfill their task responsibilities, strengthen functions such as work guidance, supervision and management, and coordination services, solidly carry out all work, and ensure the completion of the “Plan” goals on schedule.

(2) Establish a diversified investment and safeguard mechanism. All localities shall, in accordance with the requirements of the “Animal Husbandry Law”, the “Animal Epidemic Prevention Law” and the “Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Law”, actively seek to include funds for animal husbandry development, animal epidemic prevention, and livestock product safety supervision in fiscal budgets, and increase fiscal budgets year by year according to development conditions. Actively join with relevant departments to explore financial support models and guide various financial institutions to increase credit support for animal husbandry. Actively support the construction of the animal husbandry guarantee system, build an investment and financing platform for modern animal husbandry development, and attract industrial and commercial capital and social capital to invest in modern animal husbandry. Strengthen policy-based insurance, broaden the scope and amount of policy-based insurance for animal husbandry, and seek insurance institutions to develop animal husbandry insurance in multiple forms and through multiple channels. Explore the establishment of policy-based insurance systems suitable for different livestock and poultry breeds, and launch pilot target price insurance. Encourage and support leading enterprises in providing loan guarantees for animal husbandry cooperative organizations and breeding farms and households, and explore loan methods such as policy mortgage and mortgage of livestock and poultry sheds, live animals and breeding equipment. Actively implement the national land transfer policy, and seek government and relevant departments to implement land for large-scale, intensive, standardized and industrialized animal husbandry operations. Increase the implementation of the “Notice of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture on Further Supporting the Healthy Development of Facility Agriculture” (Guo Tu Zi Fa [2014] No. 127) and relevant documents of the Provincial Department of Land and Resources and the Provincial Agricultural Commission, and manage the land for production facilities of livestock and poultry breeding farms and corresponding ancillary facilities as agricultural land.

(3) Enhance industrial support capacity. Promote government-industry-academia-research-extension work, highlight scientific and technological support, integrate scientific research resources such as institutions of higher learning, research institutes, technology extension departments and production enterprises, form provincial animal husbandry industry technology alliances (industrial systems), increase the research and development of new breeds and new technologies and the maturation, integration, assembly, demonstration and promotion of advanced and practical technologies, and promote the promotion and application of new technologies, new breeds and new materials. Strengthen institutional and team building, improve the animal husbandry technical service system, strengthen the management of rural veterinarians, and establish a licensed veterinarian system. Strengthen the infrastructure construction for animal husbandry development, and improve infrastructure such as livestock and poultry improved breed breeding, industry law enforcement, livestock product safety monitoring, and animal disease prevention and control technical support. Strengthen the analysis and early warning of animal husbandry production information, establish an accurate and reliable basic data collection system, regularly release information platform and early warnings, and strengthen macro-control and risk control. Improve various emergency response plans for animal husbandry risk prevention, enhance prevention and handling capabilities, and guarantee the sustained and healthy development of animal husbandry.

(4) Advance the process of rule of law. Earnestly implement the spirit of relevant national laws and regulations on governing animal husbandry according to law, formulate and issue the “Measures of Anhui Province for Implementing the ‘Animal Husbandry Law’”, accelerate the revision of the “Measures of Anhui Province for Implementing the ‘Animal Epidemic Prevention Law’”, and enrich and improve the “Regulations of Anhui Province on the Quality and Safety Management of Livestock Products”. Improve the administrative law enforcement system for animal husbandry, and, relying on animal health supervision institutions, advance comprehensive grassroots animal husbandry and veterinary law enforcement, enrich law enforcement personnel, implement law enforcement funds, and raise the level of law enforcement equipment and testing capabilities. Strengthen and improve daily supervision, severely crack down on illegal acts, regulate and rectify the production and operation order of animal husbandry according to law, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of producers and operators. Increase the publicity and implementation of animal husbandry laws and regulations, and guide breeding practitioners to enhance legal awareness and fulfill their due obligations. Under the premise of governing animal husbandry according to law, innovate service methods and create a harmonious environment for animal husbandry development.

(5) Increase reform and innovation efforts. Strengthen the supply-side structural reform of animal husbandry, cultivate modern animal husbandry market operating entities, ensure the connection between production and sales areas, and enhance the planning, coordination and controllability of animal husbandry development. Advance the informatization process of animal husbandry, establish and improve the provincial, municipal and county-level three-tier animal husbandry information network, and accelerate the application of Internet of Things technology in animal husbandry production. Explore and improve the interest linkage mechanism between leading enterprises and breeding farms and households, and vigorously promote various forms of animal husbandry industrialization operation models. Implement the policies and measures for supporting cooperative economic organizations and family farms, and actively guide and accelerate the development of various forms of animal husbandry cooperative economic organizations and family pastures. Cultivate socialized service organizations for animal epidemic prevention and technology promotion, and effectively establish a grassroots animal epidemic prevention and technology promotion system in which the government purchases services, business departments are responsible for training, assessment and appraisal, and socialized service organizations undertake specific work.