This National Veterinary Development Plan for the "12th Five-Year" Period (2011-2015), as a sectoral policy document, has been formulated in order to define the national veterinary development principles, make clear the focus of veterinary public services, and promote the development of veterinary services. Concerning enabling more inclusive and efficient livestock and food systems, the main targets of the Plan include: further improved animal disease prevention and control mechanism and responsibility system, eradication of 1-2 kinds of animal diseases such as glanders, significantly improved animal health supervision and law enforcement capacity, steadily enhanced quality of veterinary drugs of animal products (quality inspection qualified rate to remain above 90%), significantly improved ability of the supervision and administration on the veterinary drug residues of animal products (the veterinary medicine residues in livestock and poultry products qualified rate to remain at more than 99%); significantly improved ability of veterinary science and technology progress and independent innovation, etc. The guarantee measures for the development of veterinary in the period of 12th Five-Year are set up: firstly, to improve the veterinary standard system and veterinary law and regulations; secondly, to build a long-term support mechanism for financial support; thirdly, to strengthen the organizational leadership on the implementation of the Plan.
China · 2012-05-14