(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Yangzhou Market under the Epidemic: Sufficient Supply of Living Supplies, Prices Stable and Declining

  China News Service, Yangzhou, August 14 (Cui Jiaming and Xu Shanshan) On the 14th, the reporter saw in a large supermarket in the main city of Yangzhou that the supply of vegetables, meat and eggs, fresh fruits and other ingredients was abundant, with abundant varieties and stable prices.

Strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures in supermarkets. Citizens wear masks consciously, and queue up for purchases and checkouts according to their daily needs in an orderly manner.

Citizens calmly lined up to buy and check out, in order.

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  On the same day, Yangzhou held the 16th press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Jiang Kaisheng, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Yangzhou Development and Reform Commission, introduced the current supply of living materials and the prices of main and subsidiary products in Yangzhou.

The supply of ingredients is abundant, the variety is abundant, and the price is stable.

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  "At present, the supply of living materials in the main urban area of ​​Yangzhou is generally sufficient." Jiang Kaisheng introduced that as of August 13, there are about 6,000 tons of inventory, which can meet the needs of residents for about 5 days.

At the same time, the large supermarkets in the main urban area have sufficient food stocks such as grains and oils, rice noodles, instant noodles, ham sausage, and milk, which can meet the needs of the market.

The supply of ingredients is abundant, the variety is abundant, and the price is stable.

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  Regarding prices, the overall situation is stable and somewhat decreasing.

According to the data collected by the Price Special Class of Yangzhou City Development and Reform Commission on August 13, the current prices of agricultural and sideline products in large supermarkets in the main urban area of ​​Yangzhou are basically close to their pre-epidemic levels.

The supply of ingredients is abundant, the variety is abundant, and the price is stable.

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  Data shows that on the 13th, the average selling price of 10 kinds of vegetables in Yangzhou city supermarkets was 3.4 yuan/kg, pork (ribs) 16.9 yuan/kg, and eggs 5.8 yuan/kg. The prices in the farmers’ market were generally higher than those in the supermarkets, but they also showed In response to the trend of “decreasing while stabilizing”, the prices of grain and oil continued to remain stable, and the prices of pork fell slightly as a whole; the prices of vegetables and eggs also fell slightly from the previous period.

The supply of ingredients is abundant, the variety is abundant, and the price is stable.

Photo by Cui Jiaming

  Jiang Kaisheng said that overall, prices in Yangzhou have increased compared to before the epidemic, but with the implementation of a series of policy measures to ensure supply and stabilize prices, the prices of primary and secondary products have also become more stable.

The price of vegetables with a relatively large increase in the previous period continued to fall. On the 13th, the average sales price of 32 kinds of vegetables in the farmer’s market at the monitoring point was 4.98 yuan per catty, down 13.2% from the highest point.

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