China may have a pork problem ahead of its Lunar New Year feasts
The price of pork — propelled upwards because of a swine fever epidemic — has become a focus for leaders as China heads into its festive season
Beijing — While many around the world were preparing to usher in 2020 with Champagne and fireworks, some of China’s most senior officials were busy on inspection tours that revealed one of the their biggest worries for the new year: pork.
Two members from the Communist Party’s elite Politburo — Li Qiang and Li Hongzhong, the party chiefs of Shanghai and Tianjin, respectively — made new year’s visits to local grocery markets. That’s after Beijing party secretary Cai Qi — another Politburo member and a former subordinate of President Xi Jinping — led a December 24 meeting urging officials in the capital to help ensure sufficient pork supply among other livelihood-related tasks in 2020...
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