This National Medium-and Long-term Animal Epidemic Prevention and Control Plan （2012—2020）is the first comprehensive plan to guide the prevention and control of animal diseases in China. Its overall objective is: by 2020, the integrated animal disease prevention and control capacity of effectively guaranteeing the production safety of the animal husbandry sector, the quality and safety of animal products and the public health safety will be formed, which will meet the needs of building a well-off society in an all-round way. In order to achieve the overall objective, the Plan sets out the following specific objectives: 1. Sixteen priority domestic animal epidemics, such as foot-and-mouth disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza, will met the planned assessment criteria; The incidence of pig, poultry, cattle and sheep decreased to less than 5%, 6%, 4% and 3% respectively, and the animal morbidity, mortality and public health risk decreased significantly. 2.The risk of introduction and spread of 13 kinds of exotic animal epidemics, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and African swine fever, effectively reduced, and the ability of prevention and disposal of exotic animal epidemics significantly improved. 3. laws and regulations, science and technology will be improved, financial investment mechanism will be more stable, and the level of social services will be improved in an all-round way. According to the reality of China's economic and social development and animal health situation, the Plan comprehensively assesses the economic impact, public health impact, epidemic transmission capacity, as well as the technical, economic and social feasibility of epidemic prevention and control, and defines the priorities of disease prevention and control and the key regional arrangement in the coming period. The key tasks are proposed, including: a. Control of major animal diseases. b. Control of major zoonoses. c. Eliminate horse gangrene and infectious anemia. d. Control key diseases of breeding livestock and poultry. d. Preventing the introduction of exotic animal diseases. The Plan proposes to further improve the epidemic prevention ability of animal breeding, slaughtering and other places; improve quarantine supervision measures, improve health standards for market access of livestock and poultry, the quality of quarantine supervision, and reduce the risk of long-distance transportation of animals and their products to spread the epidemic; strictly implement the epidemic reporting system, improve the emergency response mechanism and mandatory culling policy, and establish the evaluation system of culling animal subsidies; improve the compulsory immunization policy and the vaccines procurement system by bidding; improve the regionalized management system and actively promote the construction of epidemic-free areas and biosafety isolation zones; etc. In addition, the Plan requests to improve the capacity of animal epidemic surveillance and early warning and enhance the emergency management capacity of outbreaks. Strict etiological surveillance and follow-up investigation will be carried out to provide scientific basis for epidemic early warning, epidemic prevention decision-making and vaccine development and application.
China · 2012-05-20