Ji'nan vegetable prices fell by 10% over two consecutive weeks, still 15% more than the same period last year.
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business newspaper Ji'nan news 35 C - 37 C, the Meteorological Bureau of Shandong Province issued the high temperature early warning information. At high temperatures, people have reduced their outings, and even holidays in the vegetable market only during the new year are also staged in hot weather. Fewer vegetables were sold, and the amount of losses increased. The price of vegetables that should be raised dropped unexpectedly after entering August, and the average decrease was over 13% in two consecutive weeks. However, the continued decline of vegetable prices did not make the public feel cheap. Compared to the same period in 2012, the price of vegetables in the provincial capital exceeded 15%, which ran over CPI, and the price of vegetables was actually expensive.
high temperature in the provincial capital, the weekend vegetable market is no longer busy, people are more willing to hide in the air-conditioned room cool, before the market on the ear of barbaric bargaining, the silent sale sound, most of the vegetable stall owners sit under the umbrella, constantly fan the fan in hand, constantly wipe the beads of dripping sweat on his face. The hot weather made them lose their spirit.
cucumber 2 yuan / Jin, bean Jiao 2 yuan / Jin, winter melon 0.8 yuan / Jin...... Reporters walked around the vegetable market and found that the price of vegetables in the provincial capital did not rise or fall under the high temperature. Compared to the last period of the 50 kinds of table food price table for common people, there were 16 kinds of vegetables in the 21 kinds of vegetables investigated, of which 11 kinds of vegetables fell more than 10%, 5 kinds of vegetables fell more than 20%, and the price of cucumbers and cucurbits were down by more than 30% in one week.
a review of the "table food price list for the 50 people", the decline of vegetable prices in the end of July, the price has fallen for three weeks, and some of the prices of vegetables have been "cut down".
but the continuous decline in vegetable prices does not make the provincial people feel cheap, and "because of high temperature prices", "because of the high temperature price reduction", the same explanation can not be convinced. The survey reporter compared the same period of 2012, "50 kinds of food price table of common people" found that the 21 kinds of vegetables surveyed, higher than the same period last year, up more than 15%, or far more than the July CPI increase. According to the recently released CPI index, the national consumer price level rose 2.7% in July compared with the same period last year. Among them, the city rose 2.6%, the rural rise was 2.9%; food prices rose by 5%, non food prices rose 1.6%; consumer prices rose 2.7%, service prices rose 2.7%, food has become the main factor driving the rise of CPI. Vegetables, as a member of the food industry, rose far more than the rise of CPI, which revealed that vegetables were really expensive.