The Welfare of Farm Animals in China

Author Biography

Clive Phillips was Australia’s first Professor of Animal Welfare, at the University of Queensland, and a lecturer at the Universities of Cambridge and Wales. Has authored over 430 scientific journal articles on the welfare of farm, zoo and companion animals, and animal nutrition, transport and production. His books include Long Distance Transport of Farm Animals, Towards an Ethical Approach to Animals, Principles of Cattle Production, The Animal Trade, The Encyclopaedia of Animal Nutrition and The Welfare of Animals - the Silent Majority. Clive is editor-in-chief of the journals Animals, and Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases, as well as Animal Welfare and Ethics book series published by Springer and CABI. His interview series with leading experts in livestock production, ‘Conversations with Clive’, addresses the problems associated with livestock production in developing countries. In 2012 he received the Australian Museum’s Eureka award for Scientific Research that Contributes to the Protection of Animals, and in 2025 he was named Australia’s top veterinary medicine scientist by The Australian and one of Australia’s top 250 scientists. Dr. Zhong-Hong Wu is a professor at the College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, the head of the Department of Intelligent Livestock Farming and Environmental Sciences. She is the vice president of Branch of  Livestock Environmental Hygiene and Livestock Ecology, and executive Director of the Animal Welfare and Healthy Farming Branch of Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, and the position scientist of the China Agriculture Research System. She engages in research on the area of animal environmental engineering, environmental physiology, and animal welfare. Her research in animal environmental physiology and animal welfare centers on the interaction mechanisms between environmental factors (e.g. thermal and light environment) and farming practice-dictated feeding, activity and sleep patterns in regulating livestock reproductive and metabolic rhythms, addressing metabolic/reproductive disorders and young animal health risks induced by adverse environmental factors and rearing techniques. She pioneered in adopting animal biological rhythms as a criterion to assess animal environmental suitability and animal welfare.