Big data safeguards animals' health in Xifeng

Xifeng county, Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has recently made creative use of the Fangkongguanjia app, (which means disease prevention and control stewarding in Chinese), applying it to the prevention and control of animal diseases.

The practice shows how big data assists the health inspection process of farm animals. Through the platform offered by the application, inspection procedures are simplified to a large degree and are rendered traceable online.

Filling in the sector's gaps in intelligent management, the software has made animal inspection work more convenient and precise, and has been praised by the WeChat public account of the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, the Xuexiqiangguo app, the Chinese Veterinary Medical Association and the China Animal Health Product Association respectively.

Xifeng has established an online animal epidemic prevention and control system based around the application, which gathers information about inspectors, epidemic prevention materials, vaccines, locations and animal files.

The Fangkongguanjia app so far has been adopted by 160 administrative villages in 11 towns in the county. Its service model has been promoted to 20 districts and counties in Guizhou, and it now has more than 2,800 end-users.

Through the app's online administration, the local government's animal health inspection work has become paperless. The app's services in data sharing and analysis, as well as in remote monitoring and training, have helped reduce animal mortality by more than 20 percent, saving billions of yuan for local residents.