Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 15 (Reporter Liu Hongxia) The reporter learned from the General Administration of Customs on the 15th that in 2020, customs across the country intercepted 384 species and 69,500 species of quarantine pests, which is equivalent to an average of 190 species intercepted per day.
The General Administration of Customs reported that in order to effectively maintain national biosecurity, the customs has established "overseas, ports" for quarantine access, overseas pre-inspection, quarantine approval, port inspection, laboratory testing, quarantine treatment, isolation and quarantine, designated processing and epidemic monitoring. A defense system with nine specific measures on the three lines of defense within the territory.
Maintaining national biosecurity requires not only forward-looking risk warning, but also a rapid response mechanism, as well as joint prevention and control by relevant departments.
The reporter learned that the customs has established a long-term cooperation mechanism with the agriculture, forestry, grassland, ecological environment and other departments to jointly do a good job in the prevention and control of major animal and plant epidemics such as desert locust, African swine fever, and highly pathogenic avian influenza.
The report shows that since 2020, the desert locust disaster has spread rapidly from East Africa to the Middle East and several neighboring countries in China, posing threats to my country's ecological security and food security.
Customs in Shanghai, Lhasa and other customs have implemented unified deployment for desert locust prevention and control, strengthened the quarantine of inbound vehicles and goods from desert locust epidemic areas, intercepted desert locusts on inbound vehicles many times, and promptly adopted pest control measures to effectively prevent the spread of desert locusts. Into.
The relevant person in charge of the General Administration of Customs stated that they will continue to use port animal and plant quarantine work as a starting point, strictly prevent the import of major animal and plant epidemics, resolutely guard national biosecurity, help ensure biodiversity, and continue to achieve ecological environmental protection and high-quality economic development The win-win goal.