Sufficient food supplies, including fresh vegetables and fruits, have been guaranteed in China during the ongoing seven-day National Day holiday to meet the growing and diversified demands of consumers.
China's National Day falls on Oct 1, and the National Day holiday lasts for seven days from Oct. 1 to Oct 7. The period is typically marked by a surge in consumption demand.
The data released by China's Ministry of Commerce showed that the amount of the goods purchased and traded ahead of this year's National Day holiday by the country's top 200 agricultural product wholesale markets increased by 5.5 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively, compared with a week before.
To better meet the growing demand, the ministry has been monitoring the supplies and the prices of the necessities on the market during the holiday, with close attention being paid to goods like grain, cooking oil, meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables.
A logistics center near the Asian Games Village in Beijing sends over 3,000 types of goods to residents within three to five kilometers. In the first days of this year's National Day holiday, the center has already seen a 15-percent increase in the number of the orders it received.
"To meet the consumption demand during the National Day holiday, we have prepared about 20 percent more of the goods, particularly the seasonal fruits and the aquatic products. We have also increased the supply of the gift boxes to meet the demand of visiting relatives and friends. The supply of the gift boxes grew by around 25 percent," said Wu Yijing, manager of the logistic center.
The surging demand is also witnessed in a fruit wholesale market in east China's Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province.
As the biggest fruit distribution center in the Yangtze River Delta, Jiaxing Fruit Market had already witnessed its growing trading volume ahead of the National Day holiday, with the largest amount of the goods arrived on one day recorded at 19,000 tonnes.
Since mid-September, the daily trading volume in the market had stayed around 10,000 tonnes and by late September, the figure surpassed 13,000 tonnes.
Suffient supplies of necessities guaranteed in China during National Day holiday to meet growing demand
