National egg prices have risen almost every day and have climbed to the level of the end of last October

      According to monitoring by the Xinhua News Agency's national agricultural and sideline products and agricultural input price quotation system, compared with the previous day, on August 24, pork and egg prices rose; vegetable, edible oil, aquatic product, fruit, beef and mutton prices fluctuated slightly; finished grain and dairy prices were basically stable.

The price of ordinary fresh eggs rose 0.6%, while the price of dressed chicken was flat; the prices of hind leg tip pork and pork belly both rose 0.2%; among the 21 vegetables monitored, 9 rose in price, 7 fell, and 5 were flat.

Monitoring data show that since late July this year, national egg prices have continued to rise rapidly, almost rising every day. Compared with July 20, on August 24, the national average daily price of ordinary fresh eggs rose 14.3%. By region, egg prices rose in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with the increases generally larger in northern regions; in Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Shandong and many other places, price increases were 20%—40%.

As of August 24, national egg prices had risen to the level of the end of last October, only 6.7% below last year's historical high at the Mid-Autumn Festival.