Beijing will establish an animal epidemic disease prevention and control center together with an animal disease information management and early-warning system, sources with the municipal agriculture bureau said on Sunday.

The move is to strengthen the supervision over animal epidemics and improve emergency handling abilities for any exotic animal epidemic diseases, said an official of the bureau.

According to the official, Beijing will enhance the management for animal epidemics prevention, improve the animal epidemic prevention and supervision system and integrate the veterinary technical resources.

The city also plans to establish an animal quarantine farm and two isolation and disposal stations for sick animals or contaminated animal products, while promoting the experiments of chain distribution for pesticides, improving the archive management for the use of pesticides and animal remedies in plantations and fish breeding and poultry raising bases.

In Beijing today, several animal epidemic disease checking stations have been established in the Beijing Zoo, Badaling Wild Animal World and other zoos.

(Xinhua News Agency May 2, 2005)