Chinese cabbage price hike hit Beijing

时间：2007-10-27 03:15:11

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Chinanews, Beijing, October 26 – Beijingers have the habit of preserving a large quantity of Chinese cabbages for winter. This year, they are surprised to find that the price of Chinese cabbages has increased nearly 900% from last year.

 

Averagely the wholesale1 price of Chinese cabbages in Beijing is 1.05 yuan per kilo, while the price last year was only 0.1 yuan per kilo.

 

The price hike started early this month, when Chinese cabbages were sold at 0.6 yuan per kilo. Currently2, a kilo of good-quality Chinese cabbage costs no less than 1.3 yuan at the retailers’.

 

Last year, there were too many farmers growing Chinese cabbages, and quite a large proportion3 of them suffered a great loss due to the low price. Thus only very few farmers grow Chinese cabbages this year. The wide supply-demand gap4 should be blamed for the price hike.

 

This year, the sown acreage of Chinese cabbage fields in Beijing alone is 10.1% smaller, not to mention that the farmers in Hebei Province, one of the major vegetable suppliers to Beijing, have also cut the growth of Chinese cabbages.

 
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1 wholesale Ig9wL     
n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售
参考例句：
  • 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。
2 currently SvMzI2     
adv.通常地，普遍地，当前
参考例句：
  • Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
  • Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。
3 proportion cRxx7     
n.比率，比例；大小
参考例句：
  • His head is out of proportion to the size of his body.他的头部与身体大小不成比例。
  • The proportion of imports to exports is worrying the government.进口与出口的比例令政府担忧。
4 gap FhkxL     
n.缺口；间隔；差距；不足，缺陷
参考例句：
  • We must see that there is no gap in our defence.我们必须确保我们的防御没有漏洞。
  • There is a gap of five miles between towns.镇与镇之间相隔五英里。

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