Is China Running out of Food?

Inflation has made grocery shopping very expensive in the western world. I know as I just came back from Vancouver Island in Canada. You see things like $5 for a head of lettuce. In China there has been no...that's right no inflation in food prices. Don't believe me well watch this video as I go though the wet market in Nanning China and show you the prices. Compare them with your next trip to the grocery store.

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[cheese-dfyx]

I love the wet market. It offers usually more options, and products are cheaper and fresher.

[baohuawu]

Fresh vegetables and food with affordable prices, much better than those in US, I love them so much!

[utubewonderer]

I remember a time when one of the Shanghai mayor's task was to ensure residents get fresh fruits and veg at a reasonable price. One way to achieve that was to source the produce from near by cities. Another was to encourage Shanghai local farm production at city fringe areas. There was policies put in place to ensure results. I remember this as a child in the 90s visiting my Shanghai relatives and seeing the city council meetings about those policies.
Now I live in the west and I've never seen my mayor looking after his constituents one way or another. The flood we had a few month ago the mayor did nothing and told us it wasn't his responsibility. It was just nature. another flood followed in a few weeks the same thing.

[sblb]

It's definitely cheap and numerous variety. Notice some of those vegetables like the chilli it's really large or longer. The bunches of white broccoli are huge. Amazing. They are having a good life. This is what I call the people's Govt. Kudos.❤

[allenwong]

Check this out folks:
China's core inflation, excluding food and energy, remained steady at 0.7% year-on-year and 0.1% month-on-month.

[edmurks]

In Australia they export all the best food, fruit, vegs etc etc to China etc and the Australians get the left over seconds, still at a much higher price than in China etc.

[johnrobertson]

Great video, Only "antique" Canadians still quote food prices in lbs & ounces. We officially switched to metric in 1975. I was called that by my daughter when she was 9 or 10 when I told her what she weighed on the scales in lbs. She is now 33 & I am like you a last gen of Cdns with imperial brains & a very endangered species on the planet outside the US.

[WANDERER]

CGTN has good info on how China keeps food production going great, also Xinjiang cotton growers are bigest in the world, , using John Deere combine harvesters btw 😂

[iWantPeace]

If for every western lie you produce a video, you will have plenty to work on, Gweilo. 🤭🤭🤭Thanks for reporting the truth on the ground.👍

[desmondho]

Until today the US and Western countries doesn't understand China a bit. How China 5000 years of civilization, culture and human values.
From the Qin Dynasty Emperor Shi Huang Ti, to the unification of China and till today current leaders President Xi who have the same vision.
Unified China and its people.
How to develop the Chinese people lifting 850 millions people out of poverty.
No matter how much hardship and humiliation we suffers, 100 years, 200 years, 300 years or a thousand years. The Chinese people will always prevail and always defeat its enemies.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[terencechuo]

Excellent video.Tks.Malaysia imports a lot of fruits n veges from China.Prices are so reasonable.

[xingyu]

Recently i also learnt that, at these wet markets in most Southern china cities, after the food is purchased, you can kindly ask the seller to process the food for free - like washing, cutting, filleting, dicing the food.

[rubisthere-Xue]

So many varieties of affordable vegetables! China is certainly a vegan's heaven.

[longcimb]

Inflation and food security will be the main challenges for the next 3 years from the way i see it. And the West is going to have major issues with it. They are more interested in other people business rather their US is leading you to a slippery slope

[hl]

Guangxi is on south of China and abounds with vegetables and fruit. Prices are a little bit cheaper than the places on north China. Another reason is Guangxi is an underdeveloped area, so most of products are more affordable.

[jeffreyINAus]

Same as in Australia .Vegetables are very expensive here. Especially like Ginger, chinese cabbages

[MrDaftDumb]

Hi Gweilo, this video is PRICELESS 😂. I had requested for a video on the cost of living re expenses and this definitely answers a major part of it. Thank you so much.

To summarize (1 kati = 600gm) in RMB

Long beans 5
Cucumber 2
Eggplant 4
Mushroom. 6
Green onions 1
Durian. 26

In Melbourne, the big local supermarkets r Woolies and Coles and their produce r definitely not as fresh as what I can see from the video. Not to talk about prices. I frequently shop at Aldi which is a German family-owned discount supermarket chain. Even then prices r at least 5 times more than those in China with the exchange rate taken into account.

Thank u once more for this great video

Haven't even watched the whole video yet...here, take my like!

[xuwinrar]

Great video. thanks for reporting and i guess your channel has potential to grow bigger. hang on and make more videos!

[eclhome]

Forget the price just look at all the different varieties 🤤🤤🤤