The price of lamb on the mainland has risen for nine weeks in a row, rising above 80 yuan per kilogram.
During the New Year period, mainland meat prices rose for several weeks in a row, with mutton rising for nine weeks in a row, breaking 80 yuan (yuan, the same below) per kilogram, beef prices close to 80 yuan per kilogram, and pork prices rising for seven weeks in a row. Mainland people have lamented that they could not afford to eat.
Since January 10, the mainland microblogging netizens on the price hike hot debate. Some netizens said: “The epidemic has come to a large wave of people to lose their jobs, there are many people during the epidemic no income, vegetables, fruits, meat, a substantial increase in prices, still let people live?”
Netizen “the cat in the nest” posted on January 10: “Tangshan supermarkets began to grab food and oil, eggs, meat and vegetables have also increased in price.”
Mutton rose for nine weeks in a row, rising above 80 yuan per kilogram
January 11 mainland media news, only according to the Ministry of Agriculture and rural Affairs of the Communist Party of China on the mainland 500 counties market and collection point of fixed-point monitoring found that the fourth week of December 2020 is the ninth consecutive week of lamb prices rose, an average of 83.93 yuan per kilogram, up 0.8% over the previous week, up 4.6% year-on-year.
At the lamb sales counter of a large fresh supermarket in Beijing, the price of lamb leg meat is 60 yuan a kilogram and lamb slices 55 yuan a kilogram. The sales staff said that the price of lamb this winter is 10 to 15 percent more expensive than in previous years.
According to Radio Free Asia, after China reduced its imports from Australia, the price of lamb meat within the mainland has fluctuated abnormally. It is reported that since Australia announced an independent investigation into the source of the Chinese Communist Party virus (Wuhan pneumonia), the Chinese Communist Party has taken high-profile retaliatory measures to restrict the import of a variety of Australian agricultural products.
Data from the General Administration of Customs of the Communist Party of China show that from January to November 2020, the total import of lamb from the mainland fell by 5.32% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Beef close to lamb prices pork up seven weeks in a row
The price of beef on the mainland also continued to rise. in December 2020, the average price of beef in the agricultural wholesale market was 76.33 yuan per kilogram, up 0.8% from November and 8.6% from the same period a year earlier.
A staff member of a beef and mutton store in Beijing’s Fengtai District said that customers ask every day why the price of beef and mutton has risen so high, and the staff member believes that the main reason is the epidemic coupled with the decline in the amount of imported meat, which is now sold domestically in the store.
The mainland meat production decreased in 2020. According to official data only, the production of pork, cattle and lamb poultry meat in the first three quarters fell by 4.7% year-on-year. Among them, pork production fell by 10.8%, beef production by 1.7% and mutton production by 1.8%.
Pork prices also saw consecutive increases on New Year’s Eve. The “National Agricultural Products Wholesale Market Price Information System” monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Communist Party of China found that the wholesale price of pork on the mainland started to rise from the 47th week of 2020 to the 1st week of 2021, rising for 7 consecutive weeks, from 39.36 yuan to 45.92 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 16.67%.
Results from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) monitoring 500 county marketplaces and collection points on the mainland showed that the average price of live pigs on the mainland was 34.8 yuan per kilogram in the 5th week of December 2020, up 3.2% from the previous week and 4.6% from the same period of the previous year.
This follows a rise in hog feed prices in November. The average wholesale price of corn in the mainland’s production areas was 1.2 yuan per kilogram, a six-year high, up 29.7% over the same period the previous year and 31.8% higher than at the beginning of 2020.
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