Foreign Media: The Number Of Sheep In New Zealand Has Dropped Dramatically.

According to New Zealand media reports, the latest data show that the number of New Zealand sheep fell to the lowest level since World War II.

The latest animal husbandry survey in the country shows that the number of sheep in New Zealand has dropped by 3.2%, to 29 million 600 thousand, but it still remains 6 times the population of New Zealand.

And in early 2014, the number of sheep in New Zealand also showed 40 million, compared with 10:1 in New Zealand.

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The number of sheep has been declining since it reached the peak of 70 million 300 thousand in 1982.

Because sheep farmers are more engaged in dairy industry, and even surpass the traditional sheep breeding industry, and become new economic pillar industries in New Zealand.

Andrew Burtt, an economist in beef and mutton, said that the continued decline in the number of sheep has been affected by the surge in demand for mutton and the rapid development of the dairy industry in China.

In addition, urban expansion, forest planting and grape cultivation are all factors affecting the number of sheep.

Some sheep farms have even been pformed into real estate sites.

The number of sheep in Australia is roughly the same as that in New Zealand. The number of sheep fell from 170 million in 1990 to 72 million 200 thousand in 2014.

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Reporters learned from the national tax meeting held on 8 th: in 2014, the national tax authorities overcame the unfavorable factors such as the downward pressure of the economy and the reduction of tax, and persisted in collecting taxes and receivables in accordance with the law. The annual tax revenue of 103768 billion yuan (after deducting the export tax rebate) was the first time to break through the 10 trillion mark, an increase of 8.8%.

In 2014, there were 12 categories and 28 new tax incentives issued by the state. The tax departments conscientiously implemented the preferential tax policies, and made the benefit of small and micro enterprises further expand to more than 90% by changing the approval from prior examination to record keeping, and approving the collection enterprises to be included in the preferential scope.

Wang Jun, director general of the State Administration of Taxation, said that in 2014, while maintaining steady growth in taxation, tax reform carried out a new breakthrough in the initiative.

This year, the tax reform will be deepened steadily, the reform of the consumption tax will be further promoted, the positive tax is actively promoted, the environmental protection fee is promoted and the tax preferential policy is cleaned up.

We should increase tax policy support and implementation efforts in structural adjustment, technological innovation, small and micro enterprises, promoting consumption and protecting people's livelihood.

We should actively study and conscientiously implement the tax measures for the three major strategies of serving the "one belt along the way", the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and the Yangtze River economic belt.

In 2014, the General Administration of Taxation made a trial implementation of the national tax service standard for county tax authorities. By standardizing the 9 major categories, 212 categories and 1120 tax processes, it has achieved a standard of serving a ruler and tax.

From March 1st this year, the upgraded version of the tax service standard will be implemented nationwide, and the scope of implementation will be extended from the county tax authorities to the municipal and provincial tax authorities.

This year, we will take the right to standardize the tax administrative penalty as the breakthrough point, and launch the batch list of tax enforcement powers in batches, and formulate a unified national tax administrative penalty discretion standard.

We should comprehensively implement the tax credit management method and the tax blacklist system, and implement joint disciplinary actions against dishonest taxpayers.