Contain vegetable prices

Reducing the prices of such daily necessities as vegetables is the most practical approach to cutting the cost of living for urban residents. And this is exactly what the State Council is trying to do by encouraging rural villagers to sell the vegetables they have grown directly to residents at morning or temporary markets in cities.

A State Council meeting at the weekend decided that preferential policies should be implemented to establish agricultural produce markets and broaden channels for the transportation of such goods.

The meeting also decided that rural villagers should be exempted from fees of any kind for selling vegetables or other agricultural products and local governments are required to do a good job in supplying relatively cheap and quality vegetables for residents.