Industry Earthquake

After the decision was issued, the official website of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress released the regulations on the comprehensive ban of wild animals in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Draft for comments) on the evening of February 25. Based on the original decision, Shenzhen further supplemented the blacklist of animal consumption, and the edible animals and their products include pigs, cattle, sheep, donkeys, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons and other poultry and livestock that Shenzhen Municipal People's government decided to eat; aquatic animals that are not banned to eat according to laws and regulations.

With the tightening of wildlife trade, the farmers who live on it will be affected.

According to the Research Report on the sustainable development strategy of China's wildlife breeding industry, it is estimated that in 2016, there were more than 14.09 million full-time and part-time practitioners in China's wildlife breeding industry, creating an output value of more than 520.6 billion yuan. Among them, there are about 7.6 million practitioners in fur animal industry, with an estimated output value of 389.483 billion yuan; there are about 210,800 practitioners in the medicinal animal industry, with an output value of 5.027 billion yuan; there are about 6.2634 million practitioners in the edible animal industry, with an output value of 125.054 billion yuan.

According to the decision, except for food, the use of wild animals, such as fur and medicine manufacturing is not prohibited, which are in line with the regular quarantine management. But, under the influence of the current epidemic situation, wild animal breeding is in a state of suspension.

Mr. Xiao, who is engaged in the breeding of sika deer and peacock in Hubei Province, said to Time Finance on February 26 that the farm had received a notice from the Forestry Bureau at the end of January requesting that all trade be stopped. At present, there are more than 20 sika deer in Mr. Xiao's farm. In the past, these sika deer were mainly used to extract antlers.

On February 27, Xiao Chen, whose parents are engaged in the breeding of snake and Oriental rat-snake in Guangxi, also told Time Finance that his parents are pessimistic about whether they can still engage in the breeding in the future. His parents opened a farm seven years ago, and the family has been living on it ever since. Once the farm is closed, Xiao Chen's family income will be cut off.

Time Finance noted that in many rural areas, local cooperatives vigorously developed wildlife breeding, and even took the industry derived from wildlife breeding as an important support for local poverty alleviation.

In 2015, Qinhuangdao Agricultural Bureau agricultural economy general station of Hebei Province once said that Changli County has established 13 branches with 8,365 members and 3 million individuals, covering many towns such as Nijing, Huandian village, etc., driving the members to increase their income by 0.3 billion yuan. The whole Changli County even has the titles of "China fur industrialization base" and "China raccoon dog breeding town".

The development of the special animal breeding industry has also become a highlight of rural work. Last year, Zhang Zhilin, a poor family in Nanyang Village, Shaping Town, Wan'an County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province, adopted 11 groups of civets and built a special breeding base for civets in Nanyang Village. According to Jiangxi Daily, in 2018, more than 1700 people from 560 households in Shaping Town, signed a contract to breed civets with the help of government departments.

According to the plan, 33 civets raised by Zhang Zhilin this year, which is expected to bring him 50,000 yuan of breeding income. But now, it’s not clear.

Gao Guilin, President of the Research Institute of Environment and Resource Law of China Law Society, once said that the state will clean up the relevant wildlife industry after banning the consumption of wild animals, but the special animal breeding industry is unlikely to be banned at once. But it will give a timetable and gradually withdraw.

In Zhou Jinfeng's opinion, compared with the economic value brought by the wildlife industry, what needs to be considered more is the permanent value of society.

After the decision was issued, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress said that the government and its relevant departments need to support, guide and help the affected farmers to adjust and change their production and operation activities, and give a certain degree of compensation according to the situation.

Original Chinese article:

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By / Li Xue