date:Jul 22, 2013
and food safety and environmental regulations are upheld.
The size requirements for live poultry markets might explain the absence of markets in Shanghai's central urban area, although a batch of markets in the city-center is being reconstructed.
Influenced by the outbreak of the H7N9 bird virus, sales for the catering industry that use poultry went down by 80 percent. To prevent the spread of the virus, the government closed many markets in many regions, including Zhejiang and Jiangsu provin