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Guangzhou
Yesterday, Guangzhou mayor Zhang Guangning and other officials visited a farmers' market, a super market, a farm and a pork wholesale market.
Zhang said, Guangzhou government will spare no effort to reduce the impact of the pork price hike to citizens' daily life.
He urged related departments to increase the city's pork import from other provinces, to expand the local farms' pig raising business, to strengthen the pork quarantine and quality check, to give more financial help to needed families and students, and to keep citizens informed of the latest pork-supply-related news.
Shenzhen
(By Shenzhen Daily, Helen Deng, Guo Huan)
Shenzhen's health authority has acted to try and check the rising prices of pork by sparing pigs from government-sponsored farms from quarantine, the Daily Sunshine reported yesterday (July 10).
The wholesale prices of the meat rose above 20 yuan (US$2.63) per kilogram Monday evening, the highest in Shenzhen's history. Some pork retailers have stopped trading due to the high wholesale prices.
The new favorable rule applies to pigs from 56 government-sponsored farms where the city government believes pigs are safe.
Pig wholesalers have been reluctant to sell pigs to slaughterhouses in Shenzhen due to the complicated quarantine procedure and low prices as the price of pork has risen less quickly than in other Pearl River Delta cities, said Dai Ruwu, vice director of the municipal meat quarantine institute.
According to Shenzhen Daily's interview with a local pork dealer Li Shun, the wholesale prices of pork stood at 10 yuan per kilogram in the latter half of last year. It rose to 12 yuan in February, 19 yuan in July, and finally, 20.6 yuan per kilogram Monday.
Li said the price would not fall below 20 yuan per kilogram in five months, because the cost of pigs continues to rise.聽聽
Editor: Yan
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