Plan your Beijing tours? You may enquire about the present vegetable prices if you are interested in the price comparison of vegetables between Beijing and your resident country. The vegetable prices in Beijing like anywhere else fluctuate with the market demand and the weather concerned.
With the Chinese new year 2012 approaching, traditional retail commnity markets or grocerries are swarmed with shoppers eager to buy vegetables, fruits and daily necessities, forcing them to queue up for the highly priced vegetables.
Every year no matter whatever the cuases for the soaring vegetable prices, local governments would double their efforts to curb price hikes. But very often they would be in a dilemma – Low vegetable prices hurt farmers, but high vegetable prices hurt shoppers. It is not easy to find a point for the balanced prices. Each market has its winners and losers.
This morning I buy some vegetables at our local community vegetable market named “Lejia Vegetable Market”. The indoor market has been festively decorated with red lanterns and dragons, symbolic of the coming new year of Dragon. I have collected the following prices for the major vegetables Jan 16, 2012:
Tomatos: RMB6.2 for one kg
Cucumber: RMB4.8 for one kg
Celery: RMB1.2 for one kg
Spinach: RMB4.7 for one kg
Broccoli: RMB5.1 for one kg
Lettuce: RMB5.9 for one kg
Eggpant: RMB5.1 for one kg
Garlic: RMB3.3 for one kg
Chinese cabbages: RMB.55 for one kg
Scallion: RMB1.95 for one kg
Sweet broad pea: RMB15 for one kg
Carrot: RMB1.1 for one kg
Leek: RMB6.2 for one kg
Lotus: RMB4 for one kg
Gourd: RMB2.5 for one kg
Green pepper: RMB11.5 for one kg
Ginger: RMB2.7 for one kg
Towel gourd: RMB12.8 for one kg
Potato:RMB1.46 for one kg
One vendor says the prices will go higher in a few days due to the strong market demand for the coming Chinese new year.
I’m entering Lejia Vegetable Market, an indoor grocerry in our Donghuashi Nanli Commnity.
The whole market is piled up with various kinds of vegetable and fruits.
Bamboos shoots, celery, scallion and more
My favorite vendor who sells vegetables targeted at the southerners.
Some vendors who have no marketing license, have to sell their stuff outside the offcially run vegetable maket.
