Beijing permanently closes live poultry market
An official from the Beijing Municipal Agriculture Bureau announced Beijing will never re-open it’s live poultry trade. Markets that sell poultry can remain open but will only be able to sell fowl killed at certain designated spots and then shipped into the markets.
The Beijing municipal government issued a notification suspending live poultry trade in a televised conference in November 2005 when the city was hit by the bird flu epidemic. At the same time, bird transactions and pigeon release activities were also prohibited. Although bird flu had stopped raging for a while, the Beijing municipal government ,up to now, has never mentioned whether it would resume live poultry trade on a permanent basis.
An official with the Beijing Municipal Agriculture Bureau said that recently, the State Council issued a document, urging big cities in China to “gradually call off the killing and sale of live fowl in the market. It said that fowl “should be killed at certain designated spots before they can be put on sale in the market.”
In the future, the Beijing Municipal Agriculture Bureau will work with Beijing Municipal Industry, Commerce Bureau and City Management departments to jointly crack down on live poultry trade.
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