Shi Jiuyun/Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Xi
The "May Day" holiday is approaching, the consumption climax is coming, all departments in Xinjiang, especially the commerce departments at all levels, have deployed in advance to guide farmers' markets, shopping malls, supermarkets and other commercial and trade circulation enterprises to strengthen the connection between production and marketing, increase the organization of supply of goods, increase inventory appropriately, and stock up and replenish goods in a timely manner. At present, the consumer goods market in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains presents a good situation of sufficient supply, abundant supply, stable prices, prosperity and order.
On April 28, consumers were purchasing fruits in the Jiuding Agricultural Products Wholesale Trading Market in Xinjiang. Photo by Wang Xiaoyan
Early in the morning of April 28, the Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Products Wholesale Trading Market was already busy with traffic. Tomatoes, green peppers, and cucumbers are the most conspicuous in the vegetable trading area, while mangoes, strawberries, grapes, and other fruits are available in the fruit trading area. In response to the strong consumer demand of the festival, the market actively orders and transports all kinds of vegetables and fruits, arranges special personnel to collect prices on the spot, and increases the dynamic monitoring of commodity prices and sales. The market also conducts food safety testing on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, so that all inspections are carried out. "At present, the average daily trading volume of fruits and vegetables is about 11,000 tons, and the average daily entry of more than 240 heavy trucks can fully ensure sufficient supply during the festival. Feng Juan, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Products Management Co., Ltd., said.
On April 28, residents of Qitai County buy souvenirs at an open-air market. Photo by Xie Guangshun
The Urumqi Municipal Department of Commerce planned in advance, on the one hand, to solve the supply chain problems of supermarkets, on the other hand, to organize commercial and trade enterprises to do a good job in the supply reserve during the festival, and to strengthen the market supply of daily necessities closely related to the lives of the masses. There are more than 100 large shopping malls and supermarkets and more than 1,000 chain stores in the city, which are actively organizing and expanding the supply of goods and carrying out multi-field and multi-level consumption promotion activities. In the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar Pedestrian Street, there are a variety of goods in restaurants, dried fruit shops, and tourist souvenir stores. On the basis of sufficient supply of daily necessities, some stores also use online celebrity live broadcasts, online entertainment and other methods to attract diversified and characteristic consumption of people of all ethnic groups.
The major shopping malls, supermarkets and catering enterprises in Yumin County have seized the opportunity of holiday consumption and have done enough to stock up and store various commodities, and the amount of material reserves has generally increased by 2 to 3 times compared with usual. The county's market supervision, health, animal husbandry and veterinary law enforcement departments also strengthened joint law enforcement during the festival, strengthened the management of food procurement, processing, storage and sales, carried out special supervision and inspection of livestock and poultry slaughtering, and severely cracked down on illegal acts of illegal slaughter and indiscriminate slaughter to ensure the orderly supply of the festival market.
On April 28, in the Tabei store of Jinqiao Supermarket in Aksu City, citizens were shopping for goods. Photo by Wang Xu
"Our cattle and sheep slaughtering and deep processing production line is running in an orderly manner, and livestock products are continuously supplied to major festival markets inside and outside Xinjiang. As a key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization at the autonomous region level, Wang Wenbin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Aksu Xiyu Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., introduced that the company has prepared enough beef and mutton to be put on the festival market, and employees are also working overtime to ensure people's livelihood and supply.
The Aksu Prefecture Bureau of Commerce has made overall plans to ensure safe production in the field of commerce and trade circulation, guided key supply enterprises to enrich the types of goods, and signed agreements with national high-quality brands to ensure the supply of goods and supply, so as to ensure the adequate supply of daily necessities. In addition, 21 large supermarkets were selected as monitoring samples in Aksu Prefecture, and a daily monitoring and weekly reporting system was launched for changes in the prices and demand of 23 key daily necessities such as grains and oils, meat, and vegetables. "Through advance planning, the key supermarkets in all counties and cities in the region are abundant, reliable in quality, and stable in price, which can ensure that the supply of the festival market is not out of stock and continues to be filed. Hou Mingping, Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Aksu Regional Bureau of Commerce, said.
With the advent of the festival, Hotan Prefecture, Kashgar Prefecture, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture and other southern Xinjiang regions have taken the initiative to map out the inventory guarantee of daily necessities of commercial and trade circulation enterprises, guide enterprises to increase the procurement of green, healthy, intelligent, fashionable and other commodities, increase the frequency of replenishment, and smooth terminal distribution. At the same time, combined with brand activities, key exhibitions, industrial clusters and leading enterprises and other advantageous resources, we will carry out a variety of consumption promotion activities to create a harmonious and orderly festival market atmosphere.