This year is an important year for building a modern and powerful socialist country in an all-round way and realizing the goal of the second centenary struggle. In order to deeply study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, comprehensively implement the food safety strategy, and ensure the production safety, food safety, public health safety and ecological safety of the aquaculture industry, the 7th China Animal Health and Food Safety Conference with the theme of "Gathering Momentum and Integrating to Create the Future" was grandly held in Chengdu from June 12 to 14, 2023. More than 2,000 people attended the conference by 4 academicians, more than 210 speakers, and representatives of more than 650 enterprises and institutions from government departments, industry associations, scientific research institutes, enterprises and foreign countries. The conference was splendid, including the academician innovation meeting, 12 parallel forums, the annual alliance award ceremony and exhibition activities, etc., the atmosphere was warm and full of dry goods.
Conference site
The conference was hosted by the National Animal Health and Food Safety Innovation Alliance, and co-organized by China Agricultural University, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chongqing Academy of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Swine Technology Innovation Center, Sichuan Veterinary Association, Sichuan Animal Husbandry Association, Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sichuan University, Yangzhou University, South China Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Health Products Association, Sichuan Dairy Association, Veterinary Food Hygiene Branch of China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association, etc. The opening ceremony of the conference was presided over by Huang Xiangyang, Secretary-General of the National Animal Health and Food Safety Innovation Alliance.
Shen Jianzhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the National Animal Health and Food Health and Safety Innovation Alliance, delivered a welcome speech
Bian Zhenjia, President of China Nutrition and Health Food Association and former Deputy Director General of the State Food and Drug Administration, delivered a speech
Yang Hanchun, Vice President and Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine and Professor of China Agricultural University, delivered a speech
Zi Cragg, a first-class inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Sichuan Province, delivered a speech
The vice chairman of the Sichuan Meishan CPPCC introduced the advantageous industries of Meishan City to the east
Huang Xiangyang, Secretary-General of the National Animal Health and Food Safety Innovation Alliance, presided over the opening ceremony
In addition to academician innovation meetings, parallel forums and exhibition activities, in order to continuously and stably promote the work of the alliance, better serve the members of the alliance, further commend advanced enterprises with outstanding contributions, demonstrate the leading force of role models, jointly improve the efficiency of "production, learning, research and use" technology sharing and utilization of animal-source food in the whole industry chain, and jointly promote the quality and branding of animal-derived food, the alliance held the 2023 award awarding ceremony.
Group photo of the winners of the Outstanding Contribution Award
Group photo of the winners of the Animal Health Science and Technology Innovation Award
Group photo of the winners of the Food Safety Science and Technology Innovation Award
Academician Innovation Meeting - feel the banner figure of industry development and stimulate the power of collaborative innovation
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shiyan Chen
When Shiyan Chen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, shared the theme report of "Progress in the Research and Application of Antimicrobial Proteins/Peptides", he briefly introduced the development and development time of important antibacterial proteins/peptides, and classified them according to different connection modes and functional diversity. He showed that as the research progressed, the concept of antimicrobial peptides also changed. Antimicrobial peptides are part of the immune defense function of all organisms, with proteins or glycoproteins synthesized in ribosomes and transcribed and translated; extensive resistance to pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses); Microorganisms are not prone to develop key characteristics such as drug resistance. Academician Shiyan pointed out that the antibacterial mechanism of antibacterial peptides is extremely complex, and its mechanism of action includes peptide-membrane interaction and targeting intracellular receptors, and at present, there are new advances in the production technology of antimicrobial peptides, such as solid-phase peptide synthesis, heterologous system expression and purification, and antimicrobial peptide recombinant production method based on fusion proteins, and talked freely about the challenges and solutions of antimicrobial peptides in animal husbandry, medicine, food and other fields.
Academician Dialogue 1: Food Safety and Green Development of Animal Husbandry
Li Defa, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Liu Zuohua, president of Chongqing Academy of Animal Science and director of the National Swine Technology Innovation Center, Liu Chunxi, executive president of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and vice chairman of the alliance, Feng Guangde, president of Tieqi Lux Group, discussed the theme of food safety and green development of animal husbandry, and Zhu Li, dean of the College of Animal Science and Technology of Sichuan Agricultural University, presided over the academician dialogue.
Academician Dialogue II: Agricultural Science and Technology Revitalization and Animal Husbandry Power
Zhang Yong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Yang Hanchun, secretary general of the Chinese Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Society, Feng Bin, founder of Huang Swan and chairman of Fengji Food Group, Lu Zhibin, general manager of Lilan Animal Protection Greater China and vice chairman of the alliance, discussed the theme of agricultural science and technology revitalization and animal husbandry power, and Cheng Anchun, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, presided over the academician dialogue.
Academician Dialogue III: Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
Wang Hongning, Dean of College of Life Sciences of Sichuan University and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, Xu Lei, President of Tianjin Ruipu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Chen Lijun, Deputy General Manager of Beijing Sanyuan Food Co., Ltd. and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, discussed the topics of veterinary public health and food safety, and Cheng Anchun, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, presided over the academician dialogue.
Roundtable discussion 1: Healthy breeding and improving quality and efficiency
Xie Jianyong, Chairman of Huapai Biotechnology (Group) Co., Ltd. and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, Kang Duli, President of Beijing Zhongke Gene Technology Co., Ltd. and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, and Chen Li, Executive President of the Research Institute of Wen's Food Group Co., Ltd. and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, held a round-table discussion on the theme of healthy breeding and improving quality and efficiency.
During the discussion, regarding the opportunities and challenges faced by animal protection enterprises in the post-non-plague era, Xie Jianyong, chairman of Huapai Biotechnology (Group) Co., Ltd. and vice chairman of the alliance, said that Huapai Group is the first private biological product enterprise in China, and has mainly focused on swine vaccines and animal health products for many years. With the development of the industry, Huapai Group has involved pig and poultry vaccines, ruminant vaccines, waterfowl antibodies, and antibiotic products in the biopharmaceutical sector. Not only that, this year in Tengchong, Yunnan, its subsidiary Huayu Biotech foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle vaccine subunit vaccine production line was completed and passed the veterinary GMP dynamic acceptance, at present, pig foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle vaccine and bovine foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle vaccine have obtained the national first-class new drug certificate. In Zhejiang, the strategic layout of pet vaccines, antibodies and drugs has begun.
Xie Jianyong pointed out that under the dual epidemics of non-plague and new crown, the change of people's consumption habits and the overcapacity of pigs have caused a huge impact on the industry, and the breeding end is in a stage of heavy losses. This situation also makes the entire animal protection industry fall into "involution" and face great pressure. Only by giving full play to their own advantages, seizing opportunities, seeking progress in a stable manner, constantly innovating, professional people doing professional things, and solving the pain points and difficulties of the breeding group can we survive and win. He emphasized that in terms of improving quality and efficiency, Huapai Biotech pays attention to product research and development, especially the development of more multivalent vaccines and antidote products. The Group invests 100 million yuan in R&D funds every year in the field of biological products, and has set up a total of three R&D centers in Chengdu, Chongqing and Yunnan, which play a firm role in the innovation and creation of some new biological products for Huapai Biotechnology.
Huapai Group adheres to the development concept of "quality-oriented, innovation as the soul", and its full coverage of animal protection products and a full range of technical services has won the trust of customers and widely recognized by the industry, and has become the preferred brand for the prevention and control of epidemics in large-scale breeding groups in mainland China.
Panel Discussion II: The Future of Food, Nutrition and Food Safety
Wu Yongning, Chief Technical Officer of the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Yang Qichang, Executive Director of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yang Hua, Vice President of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Scientist of Quality Safety and Nutrition Quality Evaluation of the National Waterfowl Industry Technology System, held a roundtable discussion on the topics of future food, nutrition and health and food safety.
Keynote Speech - In-depth discussion of current affairs hot topics, seize opportunities to lead the future
Jiao Xin'an, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yangzhou University and Vice Chairman of the Alliance, shared the theme report of "Genomic Epidemiology and Prevention and Control Application of Foodborne Pathogens", explaining in detail the genetic evolution law and epidemic transmission characteristics of bacteria, as well as the impact of foodborne diseases on the benefits in social, economic and ecological aspects. Finally, he suggested that a new system of prevention and control from the source and integrated prevention and control should be formed to strictly prevent infection at the source, expand pollution, and strictly control the last line of defense.
Wang Jiaqi, director of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and vice chairman of the alliance
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has triggered global thinking, and the mainland's dependence on soybean imports is as high as 85.5%, so opening up protein feed resources is a major task for animal husbandry. Wang Jiaqi, director of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and vice chairman of the alliance, pointed out from the aspects of feed and food in the theme report of "Big Food View and Nutrition and Health" that the big food concept is the core of building a Chinese-style food structure, food security, national health and environmental friendliness, and has the connotations of good production, good use, excellent eating and ecological beauty. Finally, he stressed that the implementation of the concept of big food should realize from what is grown and eaten to what to eat; From simple food to large food resources; From today's technology to pay more attention to future technology, the mainland can neither follow the old road of hunger and cold, nor can it take the crooked road of decline before it gets rich.
Wu Yongning, technical chief of the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment and vice chairman of the Alliance
Wu Yongning, technical chief engineer of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center and vice chairman of the alliance, elaborated on the theme report of "New Ideas and New Challenges for Food Safety Risk Early Warning", saying that there are two overall goals in the programmatic document of the national implementation of the food safety strategy. As the burden of foodborne diseases is used as an indicator to evaluate food safety in food safety strategies, the overall status of food safety in China is mainly measured by foodborne diarrhea. In the report, Wu Yongning briefly introduced the main elements and steps of foodborne disease burden research, and interpreted the results of national disease burden.
Yang Qichang, director and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
Urbanization is the product of civilization progress, and the future will be the trend of the times, so the issue of sustainable urban-rural development is becoming increasingly prominent. Yang Qichang, director and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, shared the theme report of "Technical Approaches to Promote Rural Revitalization and Food Security with Urban Agriculture as a Carrier", pointing out that urban agriculture, as an important carrier connecting cities and villages, is an important way to achieve rural revitalization, and introduced its regional characteristics and industrial forms in detail to the participants. Urban agriculture makes the urban-rural dependence closer, and has the characteristics of functional multidirectionality, extension of production areas, and closeness of production, circulation and consumption.
On the day after the conference, twelve parallel forums were in full swing, among which the forum on healthy pig breeding and food safety attracted many participants to watch and listen.
Professor Zhu Li, Dean of College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University
Professor Zhu Li, Dean and Professor of College of Animal Science and Technology of Sichuan Agricultural University, shared the theme report of "Current Status and Development Direction of Pig Breeding at Home and Abroad", and analyzed the importance and current situation of China's pig breeding industry. He pointed out that mainland pigs have pain points such as insufficient protection and utilization of germplasm resources, low level of breeding innovation, weak competitiveness of seed enterprises, and imperfect commercial breeding system, and have long fallen into the strange circle of "introduction-degradation-reintroduction". Regarding the measures and development trend of the revitalization of the pig seed industry, Zhu Li said that the mainland should take measures to accelerate the revitalization of the seed industry, ensure the safety of seed sources, cultivate enterprise subjects, and develop policy-oriented modern commercial breeding models, and the application of intelligent technology to breeding in the future is a trend.
Guo Zongyi, researcher of Chongqing Academy of Animal Science and director of the Institute of Chongqing Pig Academy of Sciences
Guo Zongyi, researcher of Chongqing Academy of Animal Science and director of the Institute of Chongqing Pig Academy of Sciences, made a theme report entitled "Development Trend of Pig Technology under the New Situation", elaborating and sharing the current situation of pig breeding and new technologies of pig breeding. He pointed out that under the dual pressure of epidemic disease and market downturn, prevention of non-epidemic and stable production capacity are still the focus, and the pig industry is a high-tech system engineering, and saving costs and increasing efficiency from technological progress is the main way.
Yu Hongwei, deputy general manager of Ruipu (Baoding) Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Yu Hongwei, Deputy General Manager of Puri (Baoding) Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., explained in detail the main pathogens and harms of porcine viral diarrhea in the theme report "Epidemic Status of Swine Viral Diarrhea and Research Progress of Vaccine Core Technology", and showed the relevant experiments and effects in pathogen isolation and virus reserves, attack intensity and screening of vaccine strains, research on vaccine core process technology and immune effect research.
Liu Yebing, director of the China Institute of Veterinary Drug Inspection and the National Reference Laboratory for Swine Fever
Liu Yabing, director of the National Swine Fever Reference Laboratory, made a keynote report on "Helping the pig industry to save costs and increase efficiency, the development status and trend of pig vaccines, and the development and prospect of pig biologics" from three aspects: cost saving and efficiency improvement in the pig industry. Liu Yabing pointed out that reducing the cost of pig breeding mainly includes improving production performance, reducing economic losses and improving management capabilities. In reducing economic losses, vaccines make a significant contribution to the development of the livestock industry. He stressed that in the future, the research and development of joint seedlings will enter a "blowout period", strengthen technological innovation, enhance industrial competitiveness, and comprehensively do a good job in the research and development of pig vaccines to ensure the sustainable development of the pig industry.
Huang Xiaobo, director of the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and deputy director of the Swine Disease Research Center of Sichuan Agricultural University
Huang Xiaobo, Director of the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Deputy Director of the Swine Disease Research Center of Sichuan Agricultural University, briefly introduced the harm and epidemic status of PDCoV, epidemiological risk, clinical characteristics, vaccine research progress and comprehensive prevention and control measures in "Progress in the Epidemic and Prevention and Control of Swine δ Coronavirus (PDCoV)". He pointed out that for PDCoV, nursing piglets are the most susceptible to infection, with wide transmission routes, many risk factors, seasonality and the characteristics of mixed infection, and the principle of "early, fast, strict and small" should be adopted after the onset.
Dr. Li Jinhai, Director of Technical Services of Huapai Biotechnology (Group) Co., Ltd
Dr. Li Jinhai, Director of Technical Services of Huapai Biotechnology (Group) Co., Ltd., shared the theme report of "PRRS Epidemic Status and Control and Purification", and introduced the pathogen classification, epidemic history, epidemic status, and the advantages and disadvantages of the current PRRS vaccine types through the harm of PRRS. Li Jinhai elaborated on the current difficulties, principles and ideas of PRRS control and purification measures in mainland China, and took the immunization strategy of Huapai Biotech in pig farms as an example, through a large number of data and the expected prevention and control effect, whether in the blue ear positive active field or positive stable field, the effect of sows, piglets and gilts after adopting corresponding prevention and control strategies is remarkable. It is understood that Huapai Biotech has carried out a lot of research on the PRRS vaccine production process and the stable control and purification of PRRS in pig farms for many years. The launch of the new PRRS inactivated vaccine, Hualantai, will further promote the prevention, control and purification of PRRS in domestic pig farms.
Dr. Du Ping, Quality and Technical Director of Huayu Biotechnology (Tengchong) Co., Ltd
At the same time, at the Dairy Healthy Breeding and Dairy Product Safety Forum, Dr. Du Ping, Quality and Technical Director of Huayu Biotechnology (Tengchong) Co., Ltd., shared the "Research on Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus-like Particulate Vaccine", and pointed out that the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine faces the dilemma of high production cost and generational difference with international vaccines. The prevention and treatment of animal diseases is related to the healthy development of animal husbandry, involving food and public health safety, and vaccines are the main means of disease control. Through the new process route, fully automatic production system and automatic review of critical control points and other high-tech technical means, Huayu Biotech strictly controls the foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle vaccine, which will greatly improve the uniformity and stability of the product.
The FMD VLPs vaccine created by Huayu Biotech is the first subversive product in China to fill the gap in the world, and has passed the GMP dynamic acceptance and obtained the national first-class new veterinary drug certificate. Du Ping stressed that in the next step, the company will grasp the development direction, adjust the pace of development, as always, take "focusing on animal health and promoting human health" as its own responsibility, strive to cast high-quality vaccines, devote itself to the innovation and application of biomedical technology, break through difficulties and pain points, and promote the development of the biomedical industry.
Wang Wenqiang, technical director of Guozhu Health Technology Chongqing Co., Ltd
Wang Wenqiang, technical director of China Pig Health Technology Chongqing Co., Ltd., briefly introduced the concept, technology birth, application field, application limitation and bacteriostatic performance characteristics of photocatalyst in the theme report of "Research and Progress of New Long-term Disinfectants in Farms". Laboratory evaluation and pig farm application data show that compared with traditional chemical disinfectants, the new photocatalyst disinfectant has obvious application effects, lower cost, and has a wide application prospect in animal husbandry.
Professor Hao Ning, School of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology
Professor Hao Ning, School of Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, pointed out in the theme report "R&D and Application of a Microecological Product in Livestock and Poultry Breeding" that the changes in residents' consumption and the status quo of the breeding industry have ushered in a period of development opportunities for microbial related technologies, and mentioned the technical problems to be solved in feed microecological preparations. He studied the carriers and protectors of a variety of bacterial agents by establishing a microbial resource library, and demonstrated their application effect on products.
Zeng Xiangfang, professor at the College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University
Zeng Xiangfang, professor of the College of Animal Science and Technology of China Agricultural University, shared the theme report of "Sow Nutrition Regulation", and briefly introduced the function of fatty acids and early embryonic development, fatty acid metabolism and ovarian function, and functional fatty acid types. She pointed out that based on the key scientific question of how to improve the early embryo survival rate of pigs by regulating fatty acid nutrition, the study of follicular fluid, blood and urine differential metabolites and endometrial differential lipid metabolism pathways of high and low producing sows compared and found that retinol metabolites improved the in vitro implantation efficiency of pig embryos, and developed their related experimental directions.
Liu Hanping, general manager of Chengdu Shiji Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Liu Hanping, General Manager of Chengdu Shiji Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., elaborated on the theme report of "Technology Innovation and Value of Swine Important Disease Vaccine", taking the innovation of Shiji Biologics annular inactivated vaccine, mycoplasma inactivated vaccine, PRRS inactivated vaccine and diarrhea inactivated vaccine process technology as the starting point, explained in detail its production process and market use feedback, and shared the overview, R&D center and development strategy of Shiji Biotechnology.
Liu Rui, researcher of Sichuan Academy of Animal Sciences
Liu Rui, a researcher at the Sichuan Academy of Animal Sciences, shared the theme report of "Thoughts on the Protection and Utilization of Local Pig Breeds Resources", pointing out that the mainland has rich local pig breed resources, but there are problems such as no resource protection farm, impure breeds, low uniformity and unclear pedigree, so how to make good use is particularly important. She emphasized that local pig breed resources can be protected by means of efficient hybrid matching combinations, new supporting line cultivation and new breed breed cultivation, and show their corresponding effects by giving examples of relevant typical cases.
Professor Wu Zhenlong, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University
Professor Wu Zhenlong of the College of Animal Science and Technology of China Agricultural University elaborated on the theme report of "Nutrition Strategy of Grain Saving and Efficiency to Promote the High-quality Development of Pig Breeding" from the aspects of protein feed status and pig production strategy of grain saving and efficiency enhancement in mainland China. He pointed out that the mainland is facing a shortage of high-quality protein feed, and the import dependence is as high as 86%; The dilemma of low utilization efficiency of protein feed and increased breeding costs. According to the factors affecting the protein utilization of pig feed, Wu Zhenlong demonstrated a large number of targeted experimental results such as new physiological and nutritional functions of functional amino acids, amino acid metabolism and needs of different types of pig cells, and shared nutritional strategies for the high-quality development of pig breeding industry.
Chu Xueqin, China Farm Project Manager of the World Society for Animal Protection
Chu Xueqin, project manager of China Farm of the World Society for Animal Protection, pointed out the problems of farm animal welfare, especially the widespread phenomenon of low-welfare industrial farming. Based on the unoptimistic use of antibiotics in China's animal husbandry, she proposed policy recommendations for domestic antibiotic governance and basic standards for farm animal welfare.
Cathy, Professor at the University of Edinburgh's School of Veterinary Medicine
Professor Cathy from the University of Edinburgh's School of Veterinary Medicine shared the report "Improving Sow Welfare, Production Efficiency and Food Safety" by comparing the limit bar with sow nesting in the grass. She stressed that improving welfare sow welfare can increase productivity and improve piglet health, achieving a "win-win-win" situation for the pig industry.
The conference focused on the improvement of food safety technology innovation capabilities and resource sharing in the fields of animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, aquatic products, catering and supermarkets, discussed current affairs hot topics in depth, and united global experts and scholars to jointly find solutions, seize development opportunities, and lead the future with innovation for key development issues in all links of the animal source food industry chain. With the courage to work hard, the courage to innovate, always practice the great mission of "protecting animals and healthy human beings", adhering to the development vision of "integrating advanced biotechnology and creating a century-old vaccine quality" and first-class product quality and service, Huapai Group shined in this conference. In the future, Huapai Group is willing to work closely with all walks of life, go hand in hand, and strive to achieve the ultimate goal of creating and sharing win-win!