As the Chinese New Year approaches, prices are soaring on the mainland. The picture shows a supermarket in Beijing on April 6, 2011.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, people across the mainland are facing Epidemic ravages while living under the pressure of soaring prices. The Epoch Times reporter interviewed people in Beijing and Shanghai on Jan. 21 and learned that the prices of meat, eggs and vegetables are rising or even doubling on the mainland, leaving ordinary people with only a limited number of lower-priced Food options.
The price of meat, eggs and vegetables in Beijing has doubled, and people are eating the “old three items”.
Ms. Wu, a Beijing citizen, said in an interview with the Epoch Times that the prices of meat, eggs and vegetables in Beijing are now rising sharply, “four dollars a piece for tofu (RMB, the same below); three dollars a catty for scallions, and now eight or nine dollars a catty; eggs used to be four dollars a catty, but now they have risen to six or seven dollars; vegetables have doubled.”
She introduced, Beijing’s vegetables mainly from Hebei and Shandong, now “Hebei is surrounded, there are individual places have been closed, can not enter the dish, some places are not closed, depending on the direction you live; Shandong’s dish into, basically the future will certainly be less.”
Talking about the price of pork, she said bluntly that she and her Family basically do not consider eating pork. She said, “Pork has gone up more expensive. The best meat before the swine fever more than ten yuan a catty, now has 40 yuan, pancetta rose to more than forty, our family never eat pancetta, it is too expensive.”
Ms. Wu told reporters that the Beijing government now lets the people eat the “old three” – radish, potatoes, cabbage.
She said, “When I was a child, about thirty years ago, we had the old three, the old three in winter, cabbage, potatoes and radish, (now) equivalent to go back to that era, that feeling. Don’t eat expensive vegetables, only eat cabbage, potatoes, radish.”
According to mainland media reports, the price of the “old three” is also rising. 2021 the second week of the mainland national wholesale market prices of agricultural products monitoring, cabbage, white radish rose between 11.3% and 19.3%.
Shanghai prices keep rising high price vegetables “we only see not buy”
Shanghai citizen Mr. Li told reporters that the monthly income of most citizens in Shanghai is between five thousand and ten thousand, but prices are very expensive and rising fast.
“Pork leg meat was twenty-five or twenty-six, now rushed to more than twenty-nine, immediately rushed to 30. Leg meat stays at 25.26 dollars. Chops 51 yuan, pancetta more than thirty yuan.” Mr. Lee said, “general eggs, some rose to five dollars a catty six, six dollars or more also.”
“The vegetables have gone up very expensive. For example, chili peppers usually four or five yuan, now is almost ten dollars, breakthrough ten dollars. Onions (originally) were a few cents, but now they’re up to a few dollars. Some places need more than thirty yuan for garlic shoots.”
Another Shanghai citizen, Ms. Wei, also revealed that vegetable prices soared in Shanghai this winter as the weather turned cold.
She said, “The first cold, bok choy rose to 3 yuan, the second cold rose to four yuan a catty, now bok choy on four yuan a catty, let alone other vegetables. Artemisia ah, grass head ah, rose outrageously, we only see not buy. More than ten dollars a catty of vegetables is no longer rare, even celery has risen to more than seven dollars. Spinach is divided into hard and flexible, hard up to more than six dollars, flexible up to 10 dollars.”
“Cowpeas and knife beans don’t even look at this kind of seasonal goods are more than ten dollars. Garlic are more than seven dollars, the good ones are more than nine dollars.” Ms. Wei said that the cheapest cabbage is also increasing in price, “Monday’s purchase of 1 yuan 28 cents, neighbors bought today rose to 1 yuan 58 cents. cabbage 3 yuan a catty. Radish 1 yuan 58 cents.”
How difficult is the Life of ordinary people on the mainland?
Soaring prices are a common problem faced by the people across the mainland. In Jinan, Shandong Province, for example, mainland media news on January 22 showed that on the 19th in a supermarket on Yuhuan Road in Jinan’s central district, pancetta was 49.9 yuan per catty and eggs rose to more than five yuan per catty.
After the outbreak of the CCP virus in 2020, the CCP introduced the concept of “internal circulation”, stating that China’s economy relies primarily on “the internal circulation of production, supply and consumption”. However, according to the CCP’s recently released GDP figures for 2020 alone, total retail sales of consumer goods are down 3.9 percent annually, and the mainland population’s spending power is declining.
Ms. Wu, a Beijing resident, told the Epoch Times that while prices are rising, people are also facing expenses for medical care and schooling for their children.
She said, “The drugs that are reimbursed by medical insurance are basically mainland goods for general illnesses. If I have an operation, we reimburse the cost of the operation, and there is a drill for the incision instrument, and the drill costs a thousand out of pocket. The real cure for the disease, the reimbursement of the cure is not allowed to report, the key things still have to pay out of pocket.”
When it comes to children’s schooling, Ms. Wu said, “On the general school, teachers basically do not teach, you have to take remedial classes, remedial classes are very expensive, you have to pay extra money.”
Shanghai citizen Mr. Li also talked about the economic situation on the mainland now, he said that it is difficult to do non-immediate goods in Shanghai, he heard that many foreign trade enterprises in Guangdong, Suzhou and other places shut down.
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