Yufeng Hui: 50 cabbage "kimchi crisis" warning
kimchi, Korean table that common, essential food, in recent days has forced South Koreans headache, suck. With the cabbage, radish prices skyrocketing, a "kimchi crisis" so many families to eat is not fragrant, but also some squatting prison for stealing cabbage. (October 6 Xinhua)
Korean Chinese cabbage and radish surprising degree of price increases. This week the South Korean market and grocery stores sold an average price of cabbage Meike 10,000 won (about $ 8, more than 50 yuan), when the price is 3 times in September, is 6 times more than the same period last year. Many people began to use the carrot as a substitute, which in turn makes the radish prices rose more than double the same period last year, reaching about 25 RMB each.
Kimchi is Korea an important part of food culture, even "if you do not eat three meals a day pickles, you are not Korean," said. The main material is cabbage kimchi, cabbage price inflation inevitably makes the Korean "kimchi complex" damage. A "kimchi crisis" has made Korea very confusing: buy cabbage, radish, are beginning to appear; night line up the ranks of the purchase price of cabbage Olga Bay and some people get up early to queue; thieves began stealing cabbage; Even South Korean President Lee also began to afford to eat pickles; Korea as "kimchi crisis", the residents began to increase the government's dissatisfaction with the situation, many people began to criticize the government.
Korean "kimchi crisis" for many countries, especially large population like China, there is a great warning. Contrast Korean "kimchi crisis", we have been "pork crisis", and "garlic you relentless", "Jiang your army" continues. "Pork crisis" by the government successfully resolved, garlic and ginger are the condiments, the price increase caused inconvenience to residents living after all relatively small. Once the cabbage, carrots and other common vegetables prices higher impact on people's livelihood will be enormous.
must recognize the possibility of higher vegetable prices of Chinese cities exist. Cold, heat, rain and other natural disasters continue to wreak havoc vegetables can lead to reduced production of relative surplus liquidity easily lead to speculation phenomenon. Real estate development in recent years in particular, exponential rate of increase in vegetable fields around the city have become a large cement bricks, on the one hand food decreased, while the middle part of increased transportation costs, pushed up vegetable prices.
deserves more attention is that South Korea to resolve the "kimchi crisis" has been abolished import duties on Chinese cabbage, this vegetable market in China for the neighbors may have some impact. Authorities need to pay close attention, if necessary, to quickly come up countermeasures. Recently, there has been some market price of Guangdong cabbage rumors. If a new round of prices of vegetables, especially cabbage, etc. Anyway, prices not only put pressure on people's life, and will fuel inflation further higher. China's inflation rate has exceeded the warning level of 3%, which must not be taken lightly.
Yufeng Hui
