The overall supply of rice, flour, grain, oil, meat, vegetables and eggs in the market throughout the country is sufficient, and the price is basically stable

 

Don't panic! The vegetable basket is still full

 

On February 2, law enforcement officers of Qingdao Laoshan District Market Supervision Administration investigated vegetable prices in a supermarket. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziheng

 

At present, residents are extremely concerned about the material security of daily life, and to some extent, they are also worried. Recently, the demand for some daily necessities in some regions has increased periodically, and prices have risen sharply for a time. In response to this situation, the central leading group for responding to the pneumonia epidemic has set up a multi-department support group for daily necessities and established a fast-moving joint working mechanism to do everything possible to increase the supply of daily necessities.

 

At present, the "vegetable basket" of the major cities is stable? Your correspondent investigated.

 

Adequate supply is guaranteed

 

-- There is no need to follow the trend of "hoarding vegetables" because the goods are already here.

 

By 10am, the normally bustling Shengfu Xiaoguan market in Beijing was a bit quiet, with passers-by and vendors donning protective masks and fewer people coming out to buy food. "There are so many cabbages these days that I can hardly sell them." "Some time ago, I saw some people follow the trend of 'hoarding vegetables' on the Internet, and all the cabbages have been snatched up. Now the stock has increased, but fewer people are buying them." Yang uncle told reporters that this period of time the supply of vegetables is sufficient, there is no need to rob the situation of the network. "Everything is normal. We hope everyone stays calm and don't follow the trend."

 

On Jan. 22, Beijing set up a leading group for the prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia, and on Jan. 24 launched a first-level public health emergency response, carrying out a series of work. In order to ensure the supply and price of important commodities for the people's livelihood, we adopted a series of measures. We formulated the Work Plan to Guaranty the Supply of Daily Necessities, and increased government reserves. More than 4,000 tons of frozen pork were put in reserve before the Spring Festival. Strengthen the organization of goods supply, timely study and judge, schedule the market supply of goods; Organize the meeting of wholesale market, request Xintafadii, Yuegezhuang and Shunxin Shimen wholesale markets to resume normal business as soon as possible, merchants return to Beijing for business opening in advance, and maintain sufficient supply of goods and basically stable prices; In the city, 7 key agricultural products wholesale markets, 14 supermarket chains, 15 chain catering enterprises and 10 vegetable direct marketing and direct supply enterprises at the same time to carry out the joint vegetable supply protection work.

 

Auntie Wang, who lives in Beijing, said she used to go to the supermarket in front of her home to buy food, but now affected by the epidemic, the supermarket has not yet opened, so she took a detour to buy food in the small market. "Now I don't come out unless I can, so I buy enough for a few days at a time." "I think the amount of food here is quite sufficient, not only vegetables, rice, flour, grain and oil can choose a lot of types, you see, I bought so much, there are vegetables, meat, rice and oil, enough for our family to eat for several days."