The Spring Festival is approaching, and we are facing the challenge of the epidemic. Is the "vegetable basket" of the people stable? The reporter recently visited Beijing, Sichuan and other places, went deep into vegetable markets, supermarkets and wholesale markets, and brought front-line observation. The supply is sufficient, and there is no basis for a sharp rise in prices 1.38 yuan per kilogram of cabbage, 4.98 yuan per kilogram of mushrooms and 5.98 yuan per kilogram of string beans... The reporter recently saw in a Wumart supermarket in Fengtai District, Beijing that the supply of vegetables and other commodities is sufficient and the price is relatively stable. According to the monitoring of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, the wholesale price of "vegetable basket" products has continued to rise slightly recently. On January 29, the wholesale price of onion and lotus root increased higher month on month, 7.3% and 7.1% respectively. The price trend is greatly affected by supply and demand. From the perspective of supply fundamentals, the supply of livelihood commodities such as vegetables and pork is relatively sufficient, and there is no basis for a sharp rise in prices during the Spring Festival. According to the statistics of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, the current national vegetable field area is more than 80 million mu, which can provide about 3 kilograms of vegetables per person per day; Pig production resumed ahead of schedule, and the production capacity of beef, mutton, poultry, milk and eggs was at a high level; The total amount of fruit market is sufficient, there are many varieties, and the price is relatively stable. This year's Spring Festival coincides with the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Superimposed on the impact of the epidemic, the "vegetable basket" faces certain pressure to maintain supply and stabilize prices. In this regard, many parts of the country have strengthened the organization of goods sources, started the release of government reserve meat and vegetables, and ensured market supply. For example, Beijing has adopted a comprehensive "reward + subsidy" model to encourage large chain supermarkets to increase the procurement scale, and support guarantee and supply enterprises to organize the supply of goods to Beijing through multiple channels. At present, the goods of major supermarkets in the city are complete; Yinchuan, Ningxia, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Tianjin and other places have successively launched the release of government reserve vegetables to ensure sufficient supply in the market. "Recently, vegetables are mainly transported to the north, and the price is relatively stable." Zhu Limei, the stall owner of the Second District of the vegetable area of Sichuan Yurun international agricultural products trading center, said that recently, thousands of kilograms of chili peppers have been sent from her stall every day to various places. According to the relevant person in charge of the trading center, in order to ensure the supply of holiday agricultural products, the wholesale market has strengthened the connection between production and marketing, established a working commando team, and mobilized merchants in the market to actively allocate sources of goods to ensure market supply. Smooth logistics transportation is a key link to ensure the supply of "vegetable basket". Recently, there has been snowfall in Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other places. Relevant places have made it clear that while implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, they should strictly implement the green channel policy for the transportation of fresh agricultural products, and give priority to the detection and passage of guaranteed vehicles. "We will do a good job in winter and spring vegetable production in key areas such as the 'South to North vegetable transportation' base, large vegetable provinces and large and medium-sized cities in the north, continue to do a good job in livestock and poultry aquaculture, and constantly improve the market supply capacity of 'vegetable basket' products." Tang Ke, director of the Department of market and information technology of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, said. Strengthen price monitoring and early warning to ensure the basic livelihood of people in difficulty "During the Spring Festival, some areas may have continuous strong rain and snow weather, superimposed with the rise of gasoline and diesel prices and the influence of seasonal factors. It is expected that vegetable prices will be relatively strong. We should continue to strengthen monitoring and early warning and resolutely crack down on bid up prices and malicious price increases." Wang Likun, associate researcher of the Institute of market economy of the development research center of the State Council, said. Monitoring and early warning is an important part of ensuring supply and price stability. Strengthen the accurate monitoring of the market price, supply and reserves of "vegetable basket" commodities during festivals, especially in epidemic areas, so as to timely grasp the market dynamics and reserves and effectively maintain the market price order. In order to further standardize the market price order during the Spring Festival, many places across the country continue to strengthen market price monitoring, analysis and early warning, and strengthen price supervision. For example, the development and Reform Commission of Liuzhou City, Guangxi province organizes price inspections, and cooperates with the market supervision department to continue to carry out key market inspections and random spot checks, and increase the inspection frequency, so as to ensure that the quantity of "vegetable basket" commodities is sufficient and the price is stable. The price change of "vegetable basket" is directly related to the living cost of people. During the Spring Festival, doing a good job in ensuring the basic livelihood of the people in need is the due meaning of ensuring the supply and price stability of the "vegetable basket". Recently, Tianjin, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places have increased their efforts to ensure the basic livelihood of people in need by issuing one-time price subsidies and implementing preferential supply of materials for the Spring Festival. Zhang Wei, deputy director of the social assistance department of the Ministry of civil affairs, said that he would guide all localities to pay close attention to, track and judge price changes, launch the linkage mechanism between social assistance and security standards and price rise according to the regulations, and timely issue temporary price subsidies to alleviate the impact of price rise on the lives of people with difficulties. Compact the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket" and build a long-term mechanism to ensure supply and stabilize prices Many experts said that in the long run, to ensure the supply and price stability of the "vegetable basket", we should further consolidate the mayor responsibility system of the "vegetable basket", optimize the whole chain of production, circulation and consumption of important livelihood commodities, and build a long-term mechanism. The reporter learned from the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas that, on the whole, the total production and supply of "vegetable basket" products in various cities is sufficient, but some cities have also exposed the decline of self supply capacity. Affected by the epidemic and extreme disastrous weather, the prices of some "vegetable basket" varieties have risen in the short term, and the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket" needs to be further compacted. "To consolidate the mayor responsibility system of 'vegetable basket', we must first protect and build a good 'vegetable garden' to ensure a steady increase in vegetable land area." Zhang Jing, an associate researcher at the Institute of agricultural information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that some cities with large gaps should establish supply guarantee channels for production bases in other cities on the basis of fully tapping their self-sufficiency potential, so as to ensure that they can be transferred and supplied in key periods. Wang Likun suggested that we should strengthen the construction of the city's own production base of fresh agricultural products and build a number of emergency support bases. At the same time, we should strengthen the construction of cold chain logistics facilities for the storage and preservation of agricultural products and improve the market circulation system. Giving full play to the role of assessment baton is an important link in compacting the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket". Tang Ke said that we will optimize and improve the assessment content of the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket", give more prominence to the construction of production capacity and market regulation capacity, put more emphasis on ensuring supply and price stability during important time points, promote and improve the assessment incentive and restraint mechanism, and comprehensively promote the assessment of prefecture level cities. "To build a long-term mechanism to ensure supply and stabilize prices, we should also give full play to the positive role of the market in regulating supply and demand and stabilizing prices, comprehensively deploy and improve the price regulation mechanism, establish and improve the price monitoring, prediction and early warning system, emergency regulation mechanism and people's livelihood guarantee mechanism to deal with price increases, so as to prevent the sharp rise and fall of" vegetable basket "prices from affecting the basic people's livelihood." Zhang Jing said. (Xinhua News Agency)