CCTV News: Pork is a major vegetable basket product and an important factor affecting prices. What are the new changes in the pork market in recent times? Let’s see the reporter’s visit to the Beijing wholesale market.
At 8 am, it is the peak period for pork trading in Xinfadi Market in Beijing, and consumers are coming to purchase.
Merchant reports that after the twelfth lunar month, it is the most prosperous period for pork consumption. At present, this period is also the period of concentrated live pig slaughtering, and demand and supply have increased simultaneously. The average daily market volume of white-striped pigs in Xinfadi market reached the highest value in the same period in the past five years.
Due to sufficient supply, the pork price in Xinfadi market showed a steady decline in December last year, down 4.46% month-on-month. Since January this year, driven by demand, pork prices have rebounded slightly and remained stable overall.
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in the first week of January 2025, the national average price of pork was 27.75 yuan per kilogram, up 0.1% month-on-month and 13% year-on-year.
Beijing: The fruit market is heating up and the supply is sufficient.
As the Spring Festival approaches, fruits have also entered the traditional peak sales season. What are the current supply and price of fruits? Let’s continue to watch the reporter’s visit to the Beijing market.
In the Xinfadi Fruit Market in Beijing, citrus fruits such as Sichuan's jelly oranges and Guangxi's sugar oranges and wogans are at the peak of their listing, with sufficient supply and price declines.
In addition, domestic strawberries have also entered the centralized supply period. Strawberries from Liaoning, Hebei and Shandong have entered the market one after another. The price of this strawberry produced in Dandong, Liaoning is about 14 yuan per catty, a decrease of 30% compared with the previous month. At the same time, imported Chilean cherries arrived in large quantities and the price dropped significantly. At present, the wholesale price of cherries in Xinfadi market is around 40 yuan per catty, and the sales volume has increased significantly. During the interview, the reporter learned that the prices of apples and pears in the new season were supported by costs and rose slightly; the supply of watermelons and grapes continued to decrease, driving prices to rise.
Data shows that in December 2024, the average wholesale price of the six types of fruits monitored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was 7.16 yuan per kilogram, up 0.4% month-on-month and 0.7% year-on-year.
