China will release winter and spring vegetable reserves in major northern cities to ease supply shortages amid the new coronavirus outbreak, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. It said the move was announced in a circular published by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce.
They also asked cities to supplement their vegetable reserves by procuring from out-of-town production bases and conducting local off-peak purchasing.
Poster Comment:
China released its stores of pork to combat food shortages and price increases. China even bought half of the mules in an African nation to increase their food supply back home. Food will become the ultimate weapon. A lack of food makes even a moderate virus fatal. That happened to many poor people in the 1930s.