Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu, who made a study tour of south China's
Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region February 16-19, has urged farmers to
keep up their fight against bird flu while firmly do a good job of
farming to increase their incomes.
The vice-premier visited Dingdang Town, Long'an County, where
China's first bird flu case was reported, and Beihu Horticultural
Farm, Nanning City, where another bird flu case was discovered
later.
Hui visited villagers' homes to ask if they had been compensated
by local governments after measures were taken to prevent the
spread of the disease. Efforts must be made to prevent the
infection of humans by bird flu, he stressed.
Meanwhile, the official also visited a number of poultry farms,
farm produce markets, border passes and animal quarantine stations.
He urged all localities that have not detected bird flu so far to
be on high alert against the disease.
Meanwhile, the central policies for increasing farmers' incomes
must be implemented in earnest, so as to encourage their enthusiasm
for growing grain, Hui said.
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(Xinhua News Agency February 21, 2004)
