2010 National Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination work was deployed by the Ministry of Agriculture

According to this website, the Ministry of Agriculture recently organized a meeting to make comprehensive deployment and arrangements for the 2010 National Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination work. Vice Minister of Agriculture Gao Hongbin attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. The directors (bureau chiefs) of the animal husbandry and veterinary departments and the directors of the veterinary administrative affairs divisions of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, as well as responsible comrades from relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Agriculture, attended the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination is an access examination for veterinary practitioners, aimed at evaluating whether veterinary practitioners possess the professional knowledge, skill level and professional ethics necessary for practice. Implementing a licensed veterinarian qualification examination system is a common practice in most countries and regions in the world. The Animal Epidemic Prevention Law and the Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Reform of the Veterinary Management System both clearly stipulate and set specific requirements for implementing the licensed veterinarian qualification examination system. Carrying out the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination is not only an important measure for comprehensively implementing relevant policies and laws, but also a requirement for aligning China's veterinary system with internationally accepted practices, and even more a major matter in deepening the reform of the veterinary management system and promoting the construction of a new veterinary system. The Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination, like the licensed physician, judicial examination, certified public accountant and other examinations, is an examination organized uniformly by the state, and is different from any previous veterinary examination.

The meeting held that in 2009 the Ministry of Agriculture organized pilot work for the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination in 5 provinces, including Jilin, Henan, Guangxi, Chongqing, and Ningxia, and achieved remarkable results. In 2010, the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination was carried out nationwide, which was the first nationwide large-scale examination, with many work stages, high public attention, strict confidentiality requirements, and very heavy responsibility. The meeting required that all localities carefully organize and arrange, and safely and efficiently complete the 2010 Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination work. First, leadership must be strengthened and planning must be done in advance. Special institutions must be set up, full-time personnel must be allocated, and they must be specially responsible for the examination work; detailed and feasible implementation plans must be formulated, work tasks must be clarified, time arrangements must be refined, and every work stage must be made as meticulous as possible. Second, responsibilities must be clarified and implementation must be firmly grasped. Training in examination affairs work for examination personnel at all levels must be strengthened so that they are familiar with the work process of the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination; work in all stages of the examination must be done well to ensure that responsibilities are in place and measures are in place. Specific, detailed, and highly operable emergency response plans must be promptly formulated so that whenever any situation arises at any stage, it can be discovered promptly, reported promptly, and handled promptly, ensuring that emergency handling is in place. Third, communication and coordination must be strengthened to form a joint work force. An information transmission and reporting system must be established, communication channels must be kept open, communication methods must be innovated, work developments must be accurately grasped, and problems in the examination work must be promptly discovered and solved; active communication and coordination with relevant departments must be carried out, and work such as maintaining public order, security and confidentiality, handling violations of rules and discipline, medical treatment, and shielding of wireless signals during the examination process must be effectively done. Fourth, examination affairs management must be strengthened and examination discipline must be strictly enforced. The confidentiality work of the examination must be effectively strengthened, education on confidentiality laws and regulations for examination affairs staff must be strengthened, confidentiality responsibilities must be implemented, confidentiality facilities must be improved, and the implementation of all confidentiality work must be firmly grasped. Fifth, publicity must be intensified and a good social atmosphere must be created. All localities must certainly adopt practical and effective measures to strengthen publicity for the Licensed Veterinarian Qualification Examination, and strive to ensure that it is recognized by leaders, understood by society, and clear to the management counterparts.