Data platform to help China, ASEAN control diseases across their borders

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations launched a data platform for the control and prevention of plant and animal diseases, during a meeting in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Saturday.

Through the platform, China and ASEAN members can follow unified regulations in the monitoring, prevention and control of animal and plant diseases across their borders, and will have more intensified and effective cooperation in this field, Li Jianwei, chief of animal and plant quarantine supervision at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said during the launch ceremony for the platform at the Fifth China-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

The meeting was attended by 95 delegates from China and the 10 ASEAN members.