We have to eat fresh
vegetable to keep healthy.
我们得每天吃新鲜蔬菜保持健康。
The accident turned him into a
vegetable.
事故使他变成了植物人。
Organic
vegetable is more healthy and more expensive.
有机蔬菜更健康也更贵。
ZPMC, also a subsidiary of Beijing-based China Communications Construction Co Ltd, said that its seven canteens in Changxing base have sufficient vegetable and food supplies.
ZPMC也是总部位于北京的中国交通建设股份有限公司的子公司，该公司表示，长兴基地的七个食堂有足够的蔬菜和食品供应。
Currently, their stocks of rice, flour, cooking oil and frozen vegetables can be used for three weeks, while fresh vegetable stocks can be consumed for more than three days.
目前，他们库存的大米、面粉、食用油和冷冻蔬菜可以使用三周，而新鲜蔬菜库存可以使用三天以上。
"We will continue to focus on overseas direct sourcing and the upstream supply chain to bring premium fresh products like cherries from Chile, durian and black tiger shrimp from Thailand and salmon from Norway to Chinese consumers," said Zhou Xiaozhou, general manager of the fruit and vegetable procurement division at JD Fresh.
京东生鲜果蔬采购部总经理周晓洲表示：“我们将继续专注于海外直采和上游供应链，将智利的樱桃、泰国的榴莲和黑虎虾以及挪威的三文鱼等优质生鲜产品带给中国消费者。”。
According to the ingredients list of a China-made Magnum ice cream bar, water and vegetable oil are listed ahead of milk powder.
The proportion of vegetable oil, or coconut oil in China-made Magnum ice cream, is also higher than its European counterpart, as Song said coconut oil in China is mostly imported from Malaysia and is typically priced at 12,000 yuan per ton.
"Thanks to the local innovation center, our fruit and vegetable milk powder hit markets in just six months.
"Wu pointed out that the company has built a factory in Hubei province that can produce 50,000 metric tons of the plant-based meat from soybeans, red beets, wheat and vegetable oil.
The new plant will double its capacity to supply soybean meal and refined vegetable oils to eastern China.
It also develops and markets conventional vegetable and corn seeds for Chinese farmers through its wholly-owned subsidiary and a joint venture.
Because of the hot and humid climate, insufficient vegetable and fruit supplies, expensive living costs and homesickness, Qian described the Maldives as a paradise for tourists but a difficult place for his company's construction workers who nearly all come from China.
The new unit covers hog raising, vegetable cultivation and enterprise catering.
In Wuhan, under the guidance and support of the local government, Walmart has actively participated in government-led projects, such as the "10-yuan low-price vegetable package" and "government reserved frozen pork" projects to support supplies and balance prices.
According to a report by Meituan-Dianping, the country's leading on-demand service platform, a rising number of people are searching for baking-related goods on its online take-out and vegetable delivery platforms during the epidemic.
Over 10,000 vegetable greenhouses across the country have been turned into live-streaming rooms, with farmers hosting broadcasts in the fields.
People can order through the Easy Joy app by Sinopec to select a vegetable box that weighs around seven kilograms, including tomatoes, carrots, broccoli and eggs, which is expected to last three days for a family of three, according to Sinopec.
All vegetables are from premium vegetable production bases in the capital, including Xiaotangshan, one of the country's largest suburban agriculture parks, and the farm by Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group, it said.
"Opposite our site were vegetable patches, farmers' bungalows, a table tennis court and a deserted warehouse," said Chen Yudong, the president and CEO of Bosch China.
"Opposite our site were vegetable patches, bungalows where farmers lived, a table tennis court and a deserted warehouse," said Chen Yudong, president of Bosch China.
The company will cooperate with local vegetable markets to run the project, in an attempt to help groceries improve their digital operations, and let consumers and small restaurants buy their food more efficiently.
"With more affluent consumers willing to pay for unique food and vegetable experience, we are confident of more growth in the Chinese market next year," he added.
Cheung said the company has upgraded its Happy Meals from a three-item menu to a four-item menu with the addition of healthy fruit and vegetable options.
Its research and development team has developed more than 500 product categories in its 26 years of history, from popular vegetable sausages and meatballs, to some exotic Chinese products like plant-based crawfish and mooncakes.
It also plans to bottle and brand other fruit and vegetable juices.
Higher income has also increased the consumption of dairy products, meat proteins and vegetable oils.
The company will scale up to more than 100 merchandises by the second half of this year, covering over 10 categories, including fresh meat, vegetable, seafood and its self-developed private brands.
“The aeroponic technology can retain vegetable freshness for up to two weeks, so when the vegetables are delivered to customers, they are still alive,” Chen said.
Freedom Foods is Australia's largest UHT milk and vegetable protein manufacturer and the second-largest cereal maker in the country.
According to Dada-JD Daojia, Carrefour has displayed approximately 4,000 items on the platform, including those in the fresh fruit and vegetable, beauty care, baby and toddler and grocery categories, among others.
China is also increasingly playing a role in driving agricultural innovation across the world, for example in the development of hybrid rice and vegetable seeds.
With a daily soybean crushing capacity of 4,000 metric tons and a daily oil refining capacity of 1,200 metric tons, the plant will bolster the group's supply of soybean meal, crude soybean oil and refined edible vegetable oil to meet the needs of partners and consumers in China.
As head of the Tianjin final assembly line project, Laurence Barron, former CEO of Airbus China, has a vivid memory of how vegetable fields turned into a factory in two and a half years and rapidly developed into a new industrial zone.
China Railway Nanning Group now operates vehicle-carrying trains in the auto city of Liuzhou, trains adapted to carry seafood in coastal areas, and refrigerated containers for carrying vegetables in Baise, an important fruit and vegetable production base.
Syngenta showcased its latest innovation and technology in biotechnology, crop protection and seeds in its vegetable seeds research and development farm in Beijing this September.
As a major supplier of fresh frozen food, the group was once called "Hong Kong's vegetable basket", Fu said.
According to Fitch Ratings, Bright Food accounts for 41 percent of Shanghai's trade in vegetable and edible agriculture produce.
According to Ge, Peng Xin will focus on Brazilian animal protein and vegetable protein products in the next few years.
Prices for pork - a staple for Chinese dinner tables - decreased by 22 percent in September compared with a year earlier, while fresh vegetable prices dipped by 6.4 percent year-on-year.
SHANGHAI — Tucked away in the Longshan vegetable market in Shanghai is a tailor shop so small that one might easily miss it if not for the sign outside hung in recent years.
Jiang, another regular customer, is a retired subdistrict office worker who lives near the Longshan vegetable market.
Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, has seen its fruit and vegetable exports to Mongolia double in both volume and value over the first six months of this year, according to local customs.
About 714 km from the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, the Erenhot Port in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region handles most of Mongolia's fruit and vegetable imports.
The Haogang fruit, vegetable, grain and oil import and export park company in the city of Erenhot, Inner Mongolia, can fill an average of 20 containers per day with about 500 tons of fruit, vegetables and daily necessities bound for Mongolia.
A variety of Russian products were exhibited, with items such as flour, honey, beer, vegetable oil and fruit juice highlighted at the event.
The year-on-year growth of the CPI in March was down from the CPI rise in February, dragged down by vegetable and fuel prices as well as relatively sluggish durable goods consumption.
China mainly exports niche products or raw materials such as fish, garlic, citrus, apples and condiments to ASEAN, and imports primary agricultural products like fruits, vegetable oils, aquatic products, crops and yams, according to Sui Pengfei, director general of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
It imports primary agricultural products such as fruit, vegetable oils, aquatic products, crops and yams, according to Sui Pengfei, director-general of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Vegetable prices dropped overall, in line with previous years, as the supply of vegetables on the market increased due to warmer temperatures.
This year, China will seek to keep overall prices stable within a reasonable range, given the sufficient supplies of grain and oil, expanding acreage of vegetable farms, effective measures to use pork reserves to steady prices and the solid foundation for ensuring stable prices of essential commodities, said Zhang Xuewu, chief of the price analysis and forecasting division at the Price Monitoring Center, which is part of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic regulator.
In 2023, Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to China may increase by 20 to 30 percent, mainly thanks to smoother transport, quicker Customs clearance, lower tariffs under the RCEP agreement and e-commerce development, Nghia said, adding that his company is looking forward to exporting frozen durian to the neighboring country.
The Agency of Foreign Trade under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade shared Nghia's view, saying that fruit and vegetable export turnover is expected to become bigger in the future because durian has been allowed to enter China, the biggest importer of Vietnamese fruits and vegetables, under official quotas since September.
Sales of intelligent vegetable planters and vegetable seeds on JD's online marketplaces surged by 70 percent and 60 percent year-on-year, respectively, in 2022.
Combined daily vegetable supplies in the eight largest wholesale marketplaces in Beijing have reached 22,000 metric tons, while that for pork exceeded 600 tons.
The combined vegetable inventory of the five major wholesale marketplaces in Jiangxi province has reached 9,000 tons while in Shenyang, Liaoning province, the inventory of its three major wholesale marketplaces has exceeded 7,000 tons, Sheng said.
However, fresh vegetable prices fell by 8 percent.
Nghia estimates that in 2023, Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to China may increase by 20 to 30 percent, thanks mainly to smoother transport, quicker Customs clearance and more efficient and transparent regulations and procedures under the RCEP agreement, as well as e-commerce development.
"The meeting emphasized the need to further enforce the system of provincial governors assuming responsibility for the "rice bag "and city mayors for the "vegetable basket", and conduct timely market reallocation.
Nghia estimated that in 2023, Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to China may increase by 20 to 30 percent, thanks mainly to smoother transport, quicker customs clearance and more efficient and transparent regulations and procedures under the RCEP arrangement, as well as e-commerce development.
Approved by the State Council, the adjustment involves changes in the import and export tariffs of some products and sets up new tariff items such as white tea, jasmine tea, surgical robots, laser radars, and vegetable seeds.
However, fresh vegetable prices fell by 21.2 percent.
"The country's year-on-year CPI growth may fall to about 1.8 percent in November, Wang said, given the expected peak of pork prices, falling vegetable prices and lukewarm consumer activity.
Wang Qing, chief analyst at the Golden Credit Rating, said the CPI growth in September was mainly attributed to the hike of pork and vegetable prices.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the September CPI rise is mainly due to pork and vegetable price hikes, while the slower-than-anticipated PPI rise was due to effective government measures to ensure stable prices and supplies.
Dutch vegetable breeding and seed production company Rijk Zwaan, the fourth-largest of its kind in the world, will be present in the special zone.
The output of aquatic products reported slight growth, and the vegetable and fruit markets had adequate supplies during the period, the official said.
Amid better supplies and improving logistics efficiency, vegetable prices slumped 9.2 percent month-on-month in June.
Vegetable prices may rebound in light of their seasonal characteristics.
But given the relatively higher base readings last year, vegetable prices will continue to fall on a yearly basis.
The circular stressed a smooth channel from the farmlands and vegetable bases to wholesale markets and express delivery, urging related departments not to block transport on the pretext of COVID-19 control.
Prices of vegetable oil, grains and meat all touched a historic high.
The rising vegetable and energy prices have been the major elements pushing up the March reading, Fu said.
Vegetable prices surged 17.2 percent year-on-year in March due to the resurgence of COVID-19 and weather reasons.
The wholesale price index is compiled on the basis of data collected from around 200 agricultural wholesale markets and is updated daily based on the weighted average of price indices for goods including vegetables, fruits, aquatic products, livestock products, cereals and edible vegetable oil.
While pork prices dropped 41.4 percent year-on-year in March, fresh vegetable prices surged 17.2 percent.
Zhong said the average wholesale price index for agricultural products decreased 2.4 percent month-on-month, with figures in pork, fruit, egg and vegetable up 0.1 percent, 3.3 percent, -4.9 percent and -9.1 percent, respectively.
Vegetable prices have dropped markedly, leading to whole food prices going down, with a month-on-month decline about 1 percent, said Dong Qi, chief analyst at Guotai Junan Securities.
With the effective measures stabilizing supplies and prices, vegetable prices have fallen nationwide after good weather helped to relieve tight supplies.
Meanwhile, the growth in the consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, remained mild at 1.5 percent year-on-year last month, up from 0.7 percent in September amid rising vegetable prices, the bureau said.
The CPI growth went up as vegetable prices increased due to rainy weather, higher costs and COVID-19 cases in some areas.
Spinach, a green leafy vegetable typically found on most dining tables at Chinese households, was retailing at about 16 yuan ($2.5) per half a kilogram.
Then I consumed the news－how recent extreme weather in some regions combined with factors like COVID-19 resurgence in some areas and energy crunch to send vegetable prices soaring.
Rising vegetable prices have caught people's attention as much as the recent surge in coal prices.
Tang Ke, director of the ministry's market and economic information department, said vegetable production in North China has generally returned to normal levels thanks to good weather since mid-October.
Since late September, rising vegetable prices in China have raised concerns among consumers, and some leafy greens were described as more expensive than pork.
The current vegetable production and the supply during the Spring Festival holiday will be at a healthy level because only the production of some leafy vegetables has been affected.
According to a white paper issued by China's State Council Information Office, China's annual grain output has exceeded 650 million metric tons for six consecutive years, and China's fruit, vegetable, tea, meat, egg and fish outputs have led globally.
Weifang has been serving as a major vegetable base in China.
The report said in recent years, China has stepped up efforts promoting technologies and training professionals in many Arab states, including promoting dairy cattle embryo transfer technology in Mauritania, setting up vegetable growing demonstration areas in Jordan, growing rice in deserts in the United Arab Emirates, and promoting smart irrigation and water-saving technologies in Egypt.
The China Shouguang vegetable price index, a barometer of the country's vegetable market, rose 0.57 percent to 119.22 points on Sunday.
The closely-watched vegetable price index was published daily by the city of Shouguang, Shandong Province, China's major vegetable production base and its vegetable distribution and price-setting center.
The index was approved by the Ministry of Commerce in 2010 and first published on April 20, 2011 to offer more timely and accurate reference for vegetable growers and traders.
Crops grown within Beijing met production targets in 2020, with annual grain output growth of 6.2 percent and vegetable output growth of 23.7 percent, according government records.
Grain output in Beijing last year was 305,000 metric tons; vegetable output at 1.38 million tons.
Xia Meili, who runs a vegetable stall at a wet market in Zhangjiang of Shanghai's Pudong New Area, said she and several of her peers are working as usual during the holidays.
Shanghai Vegetable (Group) Co Ltd is providing 7,000 metric tons of 180 different vegetables on a daily basis.
To further boost consumption, the MOC will roll out a series of policies including expediting online and offline integration, expanding rural consumption, and promoting the construction and renovation of convenience stores, breakfast shops, vegetable markets and other convenient service facilities.
The China Shouguang vegetable price index, a barometer of the country's vegetable market, rose 3.34 percent to 229.75 points on Sunday.
Among the products, vegetable exports added up to 210 million yuan, and fruit and vegetable juice exports posted 130 million yuan, increasing 1.5 percent and 87.7 percent year-on-year, respectively.
In the first three quarters, Gansu's export of agricultural products reached 1.28 billion yuan, up 11.9 percent year-on-year, among which vegetable exports reached 190 million yuan and seed exports reached 160 million yuan, increasing 1.1 percent and 36 percent year-on-year, respectively.
In a small county in Southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, the country's sole province devoid of any significant plains, a large-scale high-yield agricultural park has witnessed solid growth this year, and it aims to become a major vegetable base for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The Chejiang dam vegetable base, located in Rongjiang county, southeastern Guizhou, utilizes gradual gradients and rolling hills in the region for cultivation.