December 22nd: The "Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products" decreased by 0.17 points compared to last Friday.

According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, on December 22, the "Wholesale Price Index of Agricultural Products 200" was 130.52, a decrease of 0.17 points from last Friday, and the "Basket of Vegetables" product wholesale price index was 133.46, a decrease of 0.18 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in the national agricultural product wholesale market is 17.56 yuan/kg, up 0.2% from last Friday; beef 65.92 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday; mutton 63.00 yuan/kg, up 1.0% from last Friday; eggs 7.48 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from last Friday; and chicken 17.92 yuan/kg, up 0.4% from last Friday. The average price of the 28 key monitored vegetables is 5.83 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday; and the average price of the 6 key monitored fruits is 7.74 yuan/kg, up 0.8% from last Friday. The price of grass carp is 19.43 yuan/kg, unchanged from last Friday; the price of carp is 13.78 yuan/kg, down 0.7% from last Friday; the price of white carp is 10.57 yuan/kg, up 0.5% from last Friday; and the price of bighead carp is 41.02 yuan/kg, up 2.6% from last Friday. Today, among the 46 varieties of fresh agricultural products monitored in the domestic wholesale market, the top five in terms of price increase compared to last Friday are leeks, bananas, pumpkins, eggplants, and winter melons, with increases of 4.9%, 4.2%, 3.5%, 3.2%, and 3.1% respectively; the top five in terms of price decrease are cauliflower, lettuce, cucumbers, celery, and rapeseed, with decreases of 6.4%, 4.9%, 4.5%, 3.9%, and 3.5% respectively.