China's pork prices soar 74.6% |
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| The wholesale1 price of pork in China surged 74.6 percent in June compared with the same month last year, the Ministry2 of Agriculture (MOA) announced on Monday. |
| July 17 - The wholesale price of pork in China surged 74.6 percent in June compared with the same month last year, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced on Monday.
The ministry, however, did not provide the average wholesale price last month.
The wholesale prices polled by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) in 36 large and medium-sized cities averaged 18.57 yuan per kilogram on July 11, up nearly 30 percent from the 14.25 yuan on May 11. The average retail3 price for lean pork has exceeded 22 yuan per kilogram.
The price hikes in feedstuff and the outbreaks of the blue ear disease are mainly blamed for the pork price surge.
According to the MOA, the prices of rice, wheat and corn rose 7.9 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, 39,455 pigs or 27.5 percent of the pigs that contracted blue ear disease in 586 epidemic4 areas, had died by July 10.
Blue-ear pig disease remains5 a severe challenge to China's Yangtze River valley despite the fact that the outbreak has been basically brought under control on the whole, the MOA said on Saturday.
The MOA, the MOC and the National Development and Reform Commission urged local authorities on Monday to ban new corn processing facilities that helped push up the prices of corn.
The three agencies also ordered local officials to ban pork that was injected with water and failed safety tests to enter the market and to eliminate the blue ear disease to ensure pork supply.
The price of pork plummeted6 in the first half of 2006, prompting pig raisers to slaughter7 their sows and piglets to avoid further losses.
The nation's pig population stood at 476 million at the end of June, down 0.15 percent from the same period last year.
The pork price will continue to rise in the second half of the year as the supply shortfall can hardly be eased in a short period of time, said Huang Hai, Assistant Minister of Commerce.
"Normally, it will take half a year to complete a pig breeding cycle and make more pork available on markets. That is why it's so difficult to make a turnaround in supply-demand relations," Huang said.
The hikes in pork price, along with other food price rises, have pushed the consumer inflation in May to 3.4 percent, much higher than the target of three percent set by the Chinese government for the whole of 2007.
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wholesale
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| n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售 |
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- The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
- Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
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ministry
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| n.(政府的)部；牧师 |
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- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
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retail
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| v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格 |
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- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
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epidemic
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| n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的 |
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- That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
- The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
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remains
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| n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹 |
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- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
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plummeted
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| v.垂直落下，骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 ) |
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- Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
- A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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slaughter
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| n.屠杀，屠宰；vt.屠杀，宰杀 |
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- I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
- Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
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