The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said the Farm Products Wholesale
Price 200 Index was 116.17 on Sept. 3, up 0.01 point from the previous day; the
vegetable-basket wholesale price index was 116.82, up 0.03 point. As of 14:00 on
Sept. 3, national wholesale-market average prices were: pork 16.44 yuan/kg (up
0.2%), beef 69.50 yuan/kg (up 0.2%), mutton 65.50 yuan/kg (down 0.8%), eggs
10.81 yuan/kg (down 0.3%), chilled whole chicken 17.23 yuan/kg (up 0.7%).