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[COVID-19 Virus] The PRC Situation Thread

Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry



Michael Standaert

11 mins ago

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Nearly 20,000 wildlife farming operations including peacocks, civet cats, porcupines, ostriches, wild geese and boar have been shut down across China in the wake of the coronavirus, in a move that has exposed the hitherto unknown size of the industry.
Until a few weeks ago wildlife farming was still being promoted by government agencies as an easy way for rural Chinese people to get rich.

But the Covid-19 outbreak, which has now led to over 1,800 deaths and more than 72,000 known infections, is thought to have originated in wildlife sold at a market in Wuhan in early December, prompting a massive rethink by authorities on how to manage the trade.
a woman wearing a costume: Freshly-slaughtered meat from wildlife and farm animals is preferred over meat that has been slaughtered before being shipped.
© Photograph: Visual China Group/Getty Freshly-slaughtered meat from wildlife and farm animals is preferred over meat that has been slaughtered before being shipped.China issued a temporary ban on wildlife trade to curb the spread of the virus at the end of January and began a widespread crackdown on breeding facilities in early February.
The country’s top legislative officials are now rushing to amend the country’s wildlife protection law and possibly restructure regulations on the use of wildlife for food and traditional Chinese medicine.
The current version of the law is seen as problematic by wildlife conservation groups because it focuses on utilisation of wildlife rather than its protection.
“The coronavirus epidemic is swiftly pushing China to reevaluate its relationship with wildlife,” Steve Blake, chief representative of WildAid in Beijing, told the Guardian. “There is a high level of risk from this scale of breeding operations both to human health and to the impacts on populations of these animals in the wild.”
Further instructions from the National People’s Congress are expected next week to give authorities more tools to enforce the ban and restrict trade until the law is amended.
For the past few years China’s leadership has pushed the idea that “wildlife domestication” should be a key part of rural development, eco-tourism and poverty alleviation. A 2017 report by the Chinese Academy of Engineering on the development of the wildlife farming industry valued the wildlife-farming industry those operations at 520bn yuan, or £57bn.
a person petting a cat: Civet cats – thought to be potential carriers of Sars – are among the animals farmed for meat in China. Photograph: China Photos/Getty
© Provided by The Guardian Civet cats – thought to be potential carriers of Sars – are among the animals farmed for meat in China. Photograph: China Photos/GettyJust weeks before the outbreak, China’s State Forestry and Grassland Administration (SFGA) was still actively encouraging citizens to get into farming wildlife such as civet cats – a species pinpointed as a carrier of Sars, a disease similar to Covid-19. The SFGA regulates both farming and trade in terrestrial wildlife, and quotas of wildlife products – such as pangolin scales – allowed to be used by the Chinese medicine industry.
“Why are civet cats still encouraged to [be eaten] after the Sars outbreak in 2003? It’s because the hunters, operators, practitioners need that. How can they achieve that? They urged the government to support them under the pretext of economic development,” Jinfeng Zhou, secretary-general of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), told the Guardian.
On state TV the popular series Secrets of Getting Rich, which has aired since 2001, often touts these kinds of breeding operations – bamboo rats, snakes, toads, porcupines and squirrels have all had starring roles.
But little was known about the scale of the wildlife farm industry before the coronavirus outbreak, with licensing mainly regulated by provincial and local-level forestry bureaus that do not divulge full information about the breeding operations under their watch. A report from state-run Xinhua news agency on 17 February revealed that from 2005–2013 the forestry administration only issued 3,725 breeding and operation licenses at the national level.
But since the outbreak at least 19,000 farms have been shut down around the country, including about 4,600 in Jilin province, a major centre for traditional Chinese medicine. About 3,900 wildlife-farming operations were shuttered in Hunan province, 2,900 in Sichuan, 2,300 in Yunnan, 2,000 in Liaoning, and 1,000 in Shaanxi.
a cat sitting on top of a refrigerator: Breeding of animals such as rats has been seen as central to alleviating poverty in rural areas. Photograph: Zhang Ailin/Alamy
© Provided by The Guardian Breeding of animals such as rats has been seen as central to alleviating poverty in rural areas. Photograph: Zhang Ailin/AlamyThere is little detail available about the animals farmed across China, but local press reports mention civet cats, bamboo rats, ostriches, wild boar, sika deer, foxes, ostriches, blue peacocks, turkeys, quails, guinea fowl, wild geese, mallard ducks, red-billed geese, pigeons, and ring-necked pheasants.
Neither do reports offer much detail about the shutdowns and what is happening to the animals, although Blake said he does not think animals are being culled, due to issues overcompensation.
Chen Hong, a peacock farmer in Liuyang, Hunan, said she is concerned about her losses and whether she will get compensation after her operations were suspended on 24 January.
“We now aren’t allowed to sell the animals, transport them, or let anyone near them, and we have to sanitise the facility once every day,” Chen said. “Usually this time of year would see our farm bustling with clients and visitors. We haven’t received notice on what to do yet, and the peacocks are still here, and we probably won’t know what to do with [them] until after the outbreak is contained.
“We’re very worried about the farm’s future,” she added. “The shutdown has resulted in a loss of 400,000–500,000 yuan (£44,000–55,000) in sales, and if they decide to put an outright ban on raising peacocks, we’ll lose even more, at least a million yuan(£110,000).”
a bird that is standing in the grass: Peacock breeders use plastic bags to wrap up the birds in transit to stop their feathers falling off. Photograph: Visual China Group/Getty
© Provided by The Guardian Peacock breeders use plastic bags to wrap up the birds in transit to stop their feathers falling off. Photograph: Visual China Group/GettyOn a visit to Shaoguan, Guangdong province, last year, the Guardian and staff from CBCGDF saw a caged facility previously used for attempted breeding of the notoriously hard-to-breed pangolin.
While there was no longer pangolin at the site, several locals near the facility confirmed the species had been raised there, along with monkeys and other wildlife.
Besides being used for Chinese medicine, much of the meat from the wildlife trade is sold through online platforms or to “wet markets” like the one where the Covid-19 outbreak is thought to have started in Wuhan.
“All animals or their body parts for human consumption are supposed to go through food and health checks, but I don’t think the sellers ever bothered,” said Deborah Cao, a professor at Griffith University in Australia and an expert on animal protection in China. “Most of them [have been] sold without such health checks.”
There have been calls for a deep regulatory overhaul to remove the conflicting duties of the forestry administration, and for a shift in government mindset away from promoting the utilisation of wildlife and towards its protection.
a group of sheep in a fenced in area: Zhangjiakou city has more than 1,500 firms processing furs from animals including foxes and racoons. Photograph: Greg Baker/Getty
© Provided by The Guardian Zhangjiakou city has more than 1,500 firms processing furs from animals including foxes and racoons. Photograph: Greg Baker/Getty“The ‘referee-player’ combination needs to be addressed and is the toughest [challenge],” Li Shuo, a senior campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia told the Guardian. “This goes back to the institutional identity [of the SFGA] which was established to oversee timber production. Protection was an afterthought.”
Proposals include fully banning trade in wildlife that is protected or endangered within and outside of China, plus bans on raising and selling meat from known carriers of diseases that can impact humans such as civets, bats and rodents.
There are concerns that in trying to prevent outbreaks authorities may go too far in the culling of wild animals that can carry disease.
“Some law professors have suggested ‘ecological killing’ of disease-transmitting wild animals, such as pangolins, hedgehogs, bats, snakes, and some insects,” Zhou said. “We believe lawmakers need to learn [more about] biodiversity before advising on the revisions to the law, or they’ll bring disaster.”
Additional research and reporting assistance provided by Jonathan Zhong.
 
Projections:

Instead of raising alert level to red, due to the widespread of the virus, Singapore will portrait the virus as another common flu and expected to soften stance due to exhaustion of resources. Singapore will end up downgrading alert level to yellow to prove rumours wrong and, ownself grade ownself.

DORSCON level could be lowered if COVID-19 spreads widely worldwide: Gan Kim Yong
https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/co...se-to-2019-ncov-situation.279014/post-3054072
 
Wuhan chio bu looks like Kelly Chen huiling
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...oad-wuhan-natives-us-unite-support-their-city

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Ivy Yang, a graduate student at Columbia Business School, hopes to launch a social media campaign to educate others about Wuhan’s cultural traditions.

Foreign universities are infested with CCP-controlled Chinese student associations and so-called 同乡会. At any time, those students might be activated to paint the regime ('祖国‘) in a good light to the media, or take part in paid political protests. :rolleyes:

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Foreign universities are infested with CCP-controlled Chinese student associations and so-called 同乡会. At any time, those students might be activated to paint the regime ('祖国‘) in a good light to the media, or take part in paid political protests. :rolleyes:

Singapore got many. from secondary school, JC and universities.
how ah? Maybe we reduce our risks by half and only accept female?

China got good women folks, but usually not from coastal cities.
 
Educate others about Wuhan culture....like cremating people while they are still alive.

You don't really need some overseas student bitch to educate you about Wuhan/Hubei culture.

This Hubei villager tells you all you need to know on his Youtube channel.

鄂东老男孩

By the way, most ordinary Tiongs won't ever send their kids to overseas universities. CCP officials and their business cronies, on the other hand, always send their kids (and illegitimate bastards) there. Let's just say it's their insurance policy just in case things get bad in mainland China. :cool:
 
Good news for ah tiong land

Hurun: New Chinese billionaires outpace US by three to one
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Jack Ma of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group topped China's billionaires with US$45bil (RM190.09bil) and came in No 21 overall on the global list. — Bloomberg
BEIJING: China minted three times as many new billionaires than the United States in the past year, with fortunes made in drugs and online entertainment after a mini-boom from the coronavirus outbreak, a ranking of the world's wealthiest people shows.
The Greater China region, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, created 182 new billionaires in the year to Jan 31, taking its total to 799, according to the 2020 Hurun Global Rich List released on Feb 26. That compares with 59 new US billionaires.
While the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has hammered the world's second-biggest economy, it has also driven up stock valuations of Chinese companies in online education, online games and vaccinations, the report said.
With much of China stuck at home due to quarantines and travel restrictions, demand for online services has surged, lining the pockets of billionaire founders such as Robin Li of Baidu, owner of popular online video platform iQiyi.
Healthcare entrepreneurs specialising in vaccinations did well, including An Kang of Hualan Biological Engineering and Jiang Rensheng of Zhifei Biological Products.
"China today has more billionaires than the US and India combined," said Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and chairman of the Hurun Report, which counted 629 US billionaires and 137 in India.
New Chinese entrants include Cheng Xianfeng of drug maker Yifan Xinfu Pharmaceutical and Shen Ya of online discount retailer Vipshop.
In the past year to end-January, tech stocks in China surged 77% and Chinese pharma companies gained 37%, beating a 16% rise in world stocks.
"A boom in tech valuations and strong stock markets across the US, India and China propelled the billionaires to record heights," said the British accountant, who began publishing the list in 1999.
US tycoons still led the list, with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos retaining the top spot for a third year with a US$140bil (RM591.41bil) fortune.
Jack Ma of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group topped China's billionaires with US$45bil (RM190.09bil) and came in No 21 overall, but he was overtaken by Elon Musk from Tesla due to soaring shares in the US electric carmaker.
Technology was followed by property, manufacturing, capital and retail as a major source of wealth in the past year.
Despite the US-China trade war, Ren Zhengfei, founder of Shenzhen-based telecoms giant Huawei Technologies, saw his personal wealth grow 7% to US$3bil (RM12.67bil), roughly on par with that of US President Donald Trump.
Beijing is the world's billionaire capital for the fifth year, with 110 billionaires, against 98 in New York. Shanghai overtook Hong Kong to claim third spot. – Reuters
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