The State Council's food safety committee recently released a list of 29 National Food Safety Demonstration Cities (Regions). Changsha City is the first and only candidate in Hunan Province on the list.

The committee launched the building of "National Food Safety Demonstration Cities" in September 2014. Changsha City was shortlisted for the second batch of pilot cities in this regard in September 2015, and started related work since the following January.

The Changsha government has firmly implemented the overall food safety plan, applied the right prescriptions to address both symptoms and root causes of food safety problems, combined institutional construction and supervision measures, made innovations in food safety supervision mechanism, and took concerted efforts to improve quality and efficiency of food industry. The food safety situation keeps stable, and the management and guarantee capacity has been improved. Changsha City has joined the ranks of national model cities in food safety management.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn