January 5, 2016 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change

As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at the national agricultural products wholesale market was 22.79 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 176.74), down 0.3% from yesterday;

Beef 54.06 yuan/kg, down 0.4% from yesterday;

Mutton 46.67 yuan/kg, down 0.3% from yesterday;

Eggs 8.10 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from yesterday;

Dressed chicken 14.88 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from yesterday.

The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables was 4.18 yuan/kg (the vegetable wholesale price index was 229.09), unchanged from yesterday;

The average price of the 7 key monitored fruits was 4.95 yuan/kg, unchanged from yesterday;

The average price of crucian carp was 14.33 yuan/kg, up 0.1% from yesterday;

Common carp 12.00 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from yesterday;

Silver carp 7.13 yuan/kg, down 2.3% from yesterday;

Largehead hairtail 28.75 yuan/kg, down 0.2% from yesterday.

Today, among the 60 varieties in the domestic fresh agricultural products wholesale market under key monitoring, the top five price increases compared with yesterday were: pineapple, Chinese cabbage, Welsh onion, eggplant and spinach, with increases of 2.6%, 2.1%, 1.3%, 1.3% and 0.8% respectively; the top five price decreases were: silver carp, grass carp, bighead carp, oyster mushroom and shiitake mushroom, with decreases of 2.3%, 2.3%, 2.1%, 1.9% and 1.5% respectively.