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中国经济政策制定者正全力以赴以减轻众多亚洲最大经济体问题的影响，然而，在所有产品类别中脱颖而出的是蔬菜的价格。
这些影响几千万中国民众饮食的日常生鲜商品——包括从卷心菜到黄瓜等，其价格因极端天气和混乱物流因素上涨显著。近期，上海及长江三角洲地区受到超过七十年最强风暴的直接打击就是最新挑战之一。
尽管蔬菜价格上涨可能暂时提升了消费者物价指数的压力，却也存在限制家庭在其他物品消费上的支出风险，并对中国经济复苏产生抑制作用。为此，中国政府展现出坚决意愿，在一周前宣布了一系列旨在提振经济、恢复信心的广泛措施。
在这样的经济背景之下，蔬菜价格飙升尤为显著：自9月20日数据记录显示，批发市场上一千克白菜的价格已涨至6元（约85美分），这一价格相较于今年6月中旬的4.24元上涨明显，并且是至少自2018年同期以来的历史最高价。
根据商务部统计数据，蔬菜整体批发价格从一年前增长了超过三分之一。就个别项目而言，青椒的价格现已翻倍；而菠菜的价格则与同等重量的鸡蛋几乎相等，后者通常定价更高。
这种价格上涨主要是由农田地区所遭遇的极端天气所致——炎热与暴雨交替出现导致生产延迟、市场供应受到影响。以山东为例，这个重要农业省份在本月初因热浪与强降雨影响了蔬菜上市时间，据《中国蔬菜》杂志（该杂志由中国蔬菜花卉研究院运营）报告。
另外，江苏省和浙江省部分地区以及上海周边也遭受了强风暴雨的侵袭；而北方某些关键的蔬菜产区因低洼地带的洪水受到了冲击。未来一周，预计南部中国的部分区域将面临高达250毫米的降水量，这可能对蔬菜生产带来更大挑战——据国家气象局的预报。
在政策调整的背景下，央行采取了一系列行动：下调了为期一年的政策贷款利率并减少了一年期借贷便利设施的资金投入，旨在通过改革框架转向短期工具以应对经济形势。另一方面，一些国际政府正考虑通过一个旨在对抗中国金属供应链主导地位的融资网络增加更多矿产项目的资金支持。
与此同时，在消化一系列旨在支撑中国经济发展的措施后，人民币汇率自16个月以来首次突破7美元大关，并且美元在最近美联储降息的影响下有所走软。具体时间点分别为：
– **周三（9月25日）**
– **周四（9月26日）**
– **周五（9月27日）**
新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：Soaring Vegetable Prices Add to Woes Facing Chinese Households
新闻日期：2024-09-25
原文摘要：
China’s policymakers may be doing their utmost to shake off weighing on much of Asia’s largest economy, but there’s one category of products that stands out as a contrast: vegetables.The prices of fresh produce from cabbages to cucumbers — items integral to the diets of millions across the country — have surged on a combination of disruptive weather and roiled logistics. Among the recent challenges was the hit from , the strongest storm in more than seven decades to strike Shanghai and the neighboring Yangtze River Delta region.While rising vegetable costs may buoy an otherwise pressured consumer price index, they run the risk of restraining household spending on other items, and acting as a brake on China’s recovery. In the latest sign of the authorities’ resolve to inject fresh momentum into the economy and revive confidence, Beijing announced wide-ranging earlier this week.Against that mixed backdrop, the surge in vegetable prices has been marked, with recent gains taking prices far above seasonal norms. At the wholesale level, a kilo of has surged to more than 6 yuan (85 cents) as of Sept. 20, up from 4.24 yuan in mid-June, and the highest price for that time of year since at least 2018, according to commerce ministry data.Agriculture ministry figures paint a similar picture, with the average wholesale price of 19 vegetables up by more than a third from a year ago. Among individual items, green peppers are now twice as expensive, and a kilogram of spinach is close to parity with the same weight of eggs, which are usually more costly.The surge in prices has been underpinned by extreme weather roiling farming regions, with periods that have been too hot as well as too wet. In Shandong province, a major grower, heat and rains at the end of last month delayed produce from arriving at markets, according to “Chinese Vegetables”, a magazine run by the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers.Elsewhere, heavy winds and rains battered plots across Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and around Shanghai, while some important vegetable-producing regions in the north were affected by flooding of some low-lying fields, thereported.Looking ahead, more bad weather — and further challenges for vegetable producers — may be in store. As much as 250 millimeters (9.8 inches) of precipitation is expected to hit parts of southern China in the coming week, according to a from the national weather bureau. lowered the interest rate charged on its one-year policy loans while withdrawing liquidity via the lending facility, as the monetary authority shifts toward a short-term tool in an overhaul of its policy framework. of countries is looking at funding more minerals projects using a financing network aimed at combating China’s dominance of metal supply chains. past the 7 per dollar milestone for the first time in 16 months as investors digested a raft of measures to support the Chinese economy and the recent Federal Reserve rate cut kept the dollar on the back-foot.Wednesday, Sept. 25:Thursday, Sept. 26:Friday, Sept. 27:
