In 2003, the State Forestry Administration issued the Catalogue of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Mature Domestication and Reproduction Techniques and Commercialization, and in 2004, it further issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Sustainable Development of Wild Animals and Plants, which clearly defined the universal protection of wild animals and plants, prohibited or strictly restricted the hunting of wild resources for commercial purposes, and prohibited the hunting of wild animals for edible purposes.
The above requirements make most catering enterprises in China stop operating snake dishes, which greatly reduces the consumption of snake resources. In 2007, the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Food and Drug Administration and the Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening the Protection of Saiga antelope, pangolin and rare snakes resources and standardizing the management of their medicinal products.
It is clearly required to stop hunting snakes in the wild, guide and standardize the artificial breeding activities of snakes, check, register, standardize and package the stored snake raw materials, and keep them in designated places. The scope of use of snake raw materials is defined, the macro-control measures of total resource consumption are determined, and a special labeling management system is implemented for products containing snake ingredients.
At the same time, the law enforcement and supervision of wildlife protection in China has been continuously strengthened, and a law enforcement system has been established, with forest public security and wildlife protection administrative management systems as the mainstay, and industry and commerce, customs and other relevant departments performing their respective duties. Regular law enforcement inspections and special crackdown actions have effectively curbed the momentum of illegal hunting, hunting, management and utilization of wild animals such as snakes.
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Snakes have important economic value, not only can be used as medicine and food, but also are important raw materials for China ethnic musical instruments such as erhu. The Chinese nation is the first nation to recognize and utilize snake resources.
As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the medical work Shennong Baicao recorded the medicinal effects of some snake products, and Compendium of Materia Medica recorded more than ten kinds of medicinal snakes.
Besides erhu, there are three kinds of stringed instruments and tambourines in China. The history of erhu can be traced back to 1000 years ago, and the history of Sanxian and tambourine can also be traced back to 500 years ago.
On the utilization of snake resources, not only China has a long history of snake resources utilization, but also some other countries have considerable snake resources utilization.
As a developing country, China is one of the largest snake exporters, which also affects the sustainable utilization of wild snake resources in China.
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