Ningbo witnessed the first snow in the Year of Dragon on the second day of the first lunar month. At about nine in the morning, snowflakes began to fall down and it became heavier near noon. Although the snow was somewhat gentle, the atmosphere of the festival became thicker. According to the weather forecast released by Ningbo Meteorological Observatory at 11 o’clock, today it will be cloudy with snow sometimes, and at night it will be overcast to cloudy. Tomorrow it will be cloudy to clear. The maximum temperature of tomorrow will be 6 degrees and the minimum temperature will be minus 3 degrees, frozen

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Fountains in TianYi Square, Ningbo, China with fancy music in the background
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For the first three days of the Spring Festival period, despite the bad weather condition, the festival food basket maintained a smooth transportation, and the sales increased while prices dropped.

On the morning of January 25, there is a busy scene in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market. Suburban vegetable farmers from Jiangbei District and Zhenhai District brought in such seasonal vegetables as green vegetables, spinach and lettuce. Meanwhile, over 100 tons of such vegetables as lamp pepper, bean, leek, pea and aubergine, are also carried to the market by trunks from places outside Ningbo. According to statistics, the turnover of the vegetable wholesales amounted to 283 tons on January 25, increased by 1.8 times compared with the day before. And the average wholesale price for vegetables is 3.63 yuan per kilo, down by 25.6% over the day before and down by 2.9% over the same period last year.

In Ningbo Aquatic Products Market, the seafood from the East Sea arrived before the Spring Festival Eve and the frozen fish stock become the main products. Besides the local aquatic products, such as hairtail, pomfret, eel, swimming crab, little clubs fish, small yellow croaker, sepia and squid, imported salmon, tuna, squid and pomfret, etc. from Norway, the United States and Japan can also be seen in the market. According to statistics, since the Spring Festival Eve, the turnover of aquatic products has reached 580 tons. The average wholesale price on the 25th is 28.37 yuan per kilo, down by 13.4% over the period before the festival.

Since the Spring Festival Eve, the total sale of pork reached 225 tons in the urban district, an increase of 3.1% over the same period last year. The average wholesale price of pork on the 25th is 23.73 yuan per kilo, down by 0.9% over the period before the festival. In Ningbo Meat, Poultry and Egg Wholesale Market, about 330,000 live chickens were sold, an increase of 85% over the same period last year, while the sale of eggs reached 222 tons, almost the same as that of last year. The wholesale price for live chicken and egg are 13.18 yuan per kilo and 7.48 yuan per kilo respectively, down by 3.7% and 20.3% respectively over the same period last year.

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Two separate performances (5/13/2010 and 5/22/2010) of “Jam” spliced together from our recent tour in China. The crowds eat it up!
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The light snow of the Chinese New Year’s Eve made little impact on the vegetable supply during the Festival. On January 23, with the weather turning clear, wholesalers from all over the country poured in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, and the total transaction of vegetables reached over 1380 tons, an increase of 7.3% over the same period last year. Of over one hundred varieties of vegetables, only three to four kinds rose in price while others all maintained the same price level as before the Festival.  

Although it is the Spring Festival, there are still lots of citizens purchasing vegetables in supermarkets. In the Jiangdong shop of CRV supermarket, the prices of such vegetables as broccoli, celery, cabbage and radish remain the same as days before, and some vegetables are even on membership sale. According to a person in charge of the supermarket, they have reserved about ten kinds of vegetables, including 15 tons of broccoli, 15 tons of bamboo shoots and 10 tons of celery, which not only ensures the adequate supply of vegetables during the Spring Festival period but also guarantees the same price level as that before the festival.  

On the noon of January 23, in Ningbo Vegetable Wholesale Market, large trucks loaded with vegetables and purchasing tricycles and pickups can be seen now and then. A person in charge of the purchasing department of Sanjiang Supermarket said that their purchase had completed two days before. But considering the citizens’ need for fresh vegetables would surely increase after January 25, they were making further reservations these two days as the weather was fine. It is learned that on January 23, the total transaction of vegetables of the wholesale market reached over 1380 tons and there were about 100 kinds of vegetables involved, both increased slightly compared with the same period last year.

“Since one week ago before the festival, we have completed the 5000 tons of dynamic reserve of vegetables, which can guarantee one week’s need of the public.” said a person in charge of the transaction sector of the wholesale market.

Apart from the vegetables, the wholesale for the meat and poultry and the aquatic products decreased by about 15%. According to a related person, that is because the demand for these two kinds of products is small as the consumers have made adequate purchase before the festival, and it is estimated that the demand will return to the normal after the Lantern Festival

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