China News Service, June 4, according to the Ministry of Commerce website, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce recently issued a notice on the investigation of the vegetable market (hereinafter referred to as the notice). The notice said that the bottom-up survey was to accurately grasp the current status of the development of the national vegetable market, promote the standardization of the vegetable market, and better meet the needs of residents for convenient consumption, safe consumption and quality consumption.
Data map: vegetable market. China News Agency reporter Yang Yanmin photo
The target of this survey is the urban community vegetable market, which refers to the sale of various agricultural and sideline products such as vegetables, melons and fruits, aquatic products, poultry eggs, meat products, soy products, cooked food, lo mei, grain and oil products. Individual entities (merchants or street vendors) continue to operate in the retail market with residents in surrounding communities as their main service targets.
The survey includes the following aspects:
(1) Overall situation of the vegetable market. Including the current number of vegetable markets, business area, scale, regional distribution, ownership of property rights, etc.
(2) The operating situation of the vegetable market. Including the overall financial situation of the vegetable market, the level of income of vendors in the market, and the proportion of vendors’ operating costs in sales revenue.
(3) Policy measures to support the vegetable market. Including local standards such as vegetable market setting and management norms, vegetable market network layout planning, fiscal fund support policies, tax reduction and exemption policies, and other policy measures to strengthen vegetable market construction and management operations.
(4) Construction and transformation of the vegetable market. Promote the number of new and renovated vegetable markets in 2019; the amount of investment in new and renovated vegetable markets in 2019; plan to promote the number of new and renovated vegetable markets in 2020.
(5) Existing problems and policy suggestions. Including the current outstanding problems in the construction and operation of the vegetable market; the main problems encountered in promoting the construction of the standardized vegetable market; policy recommendations for the next step to promote the standardization of the vegetable market and strengthen the construction of urban agricultural retail outlets.