CHINA: Food prices soar
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As China's economy continues to hot up, so do its food prices. In the past year, the price of pork has gone up by more than 50 percent; vegetables by nearly a third and the cost of food oil has junped by 34 percent. Premier Wen Jiabao has held an urgent meeting of the State Council to discuss measures to stabilise food prices.
Presenter: Xiaoning Mo
Speakers: Professor Jonathan Unger, director of the Contemporary China Centre at the Australian National University; Professor Zhang Jun, director of China Centre for Economic Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai
