BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- As more bird flu cases were spotted across China, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have intensified poultry market surveillance while at the same time ensuring meat supply.

    In addition to a daily report on market demand of daily necessities of the country's 36 major cities, the commercial departments of the provinces and regions where bird flu cases werefound have intensified the surveillance of the local supermarkets and community marketplaces to maintain market stability.

    Avian product export from Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei, where bird flu cases have been found, has been suspended by the local qualitysupervision, inspection and quarantine organizations. And all the poultry processing factories within the bird flu affected-regions have been closed down.

    Poultry markets in bird flu-affected areas have also been closed down by local industry and commercial administrative organizations, and market patrol has been stepped up in the transition areas between bird flu-affected and unaffected areas. Enditem