China News Service, Taiyuan, March 2 (Yang Jing) The reporter learned from Taiyuan Customs on the 2nd that Taiyuan Customs has taken measures to strengthen supervision, optimize services, and do a good job in the inspection and quarantine of live pigs supplied to Hong Kong. In 2021, Shanxi will supply 3640 live pigs to Hong Kong. It has increased by more than 20 times year-on-year, and no quality and safety problems have occurred throughout the year.

  Taiyuan Customs staff introduced that Shanxi Province's live pig enterprises to Hong Kong are located in Jiaokou County, Luliang City. Among the national live pig enterprises that supply Hong Kong, the location is the most remote. It often takes more than 3 hours for customs supervision personnel to arrive, and the transportation time is the longest. , Land transportation generally takes about 36 hours to reach the Shenzhen port.

  In view of the high timeliness requirements for the export of fresh and live commodities, Taiyuan Customs has established a working mechanism of priority order receipt, priority inspection and priority release for live pigs supplied to Hong Kong, opened up a "green channel", and implemented appointment clearance and 24-hour customs clearance services.

Taiyuan Customs officers inspected live pigs supplied to Hong Kong and imposed lead blockade.

Provided by Taiyuan Customs

  At the same time, Taiyuan Customs will carry out the supervision of live pigs supplied to Hong Kong throughout the whole process of enterprises from pig breeding to shipment supervision and loading, and regularly implement national biosafety monitoring and edible terrestrial animal safety risk monitoring on a quarterly basis. Quality and safety of live pigs.

  The data shows that in 2021, a total of 9 samples of pig liver, pig urine and pork will be sent for testing, and 236 items of agricultural and animal residues will be tested; 581 pig blood samples will be collected, and 707 items of infectious diseases of various live pigs will be tested, with a pass rate of 100%. .

  At present, Shanxi Province's only registered live pig breeding and export base with export business in Hong Kong has passed the certification of the first batch of African swine fever-free communities in China.

Taiyuan Customs said that in the next step, it will continue to give full play to its functional advantages to help more agricultural product enterprises supplying Hong Kong realize transformation and upgrading by relying on the "quality competition" strategy, and form a brand of Shanxi supplying Hong Kong with the reputation of high quality and safety.

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