They say the price of salt is going up. Really?
It's true, the reason is as follows: yesterday morning, Fujian Province, the city salt sector has launched an emergency plan, scheduling inventory of salt into the market, as of press time, Fuzhou City, part of the supermarkets have been adjusted to the salt, the situation in the city is also basically under control. Fuzhou City, the price department said, will be price gouging behavior to be cracked down on. CBN reporter who was informed of the matter on the evening of the 21st found that in the Wanjia supermarket in the Golden Vienna neighborhood on Wuyi South Road in the Taijiang District, although the price is still 1 yuan, but the two boxes of salt have been exhausted. "Some residents bought away the whole box, not in packages, I don't know why." The store owner said. Almost at the same time, not far away from the Wal-Mart and good and more two large supermarkets, *** about 30 boxes of salt was snapped up. These two supermarkets retail price is cheaper, only 0.9 yuan / packet. On the morning of the 22nd, a bigger rush swept across the city - 10 o'clock, the above Wal-Mart and good and two supermarkets were snapped up nearly 80 boxes of salt, not only 0.9 yuan / packet of common salt was snapped up, and even 3 yuan / packet of high-priced salt is also completely empty. On the morning of the 22nd, Fuzhou, a local city newspaper published in Fujian Ningde Xiapu, Fuding area due to rumors of seawater contamination salt was snapped up out of the news. 10:00, Fuzhou City, the major supermarkets, grocery stores appeared to be out of stock of salt phenomenon. On the morning of the 22nd, Fujian Salt Industry Company (Provincial Salt Industry Bureau) immediately launched the "Emergency Plan for Salt Reserves in Fujian Province". Informed of the situation, Fuzhou Salt Industry Company (City Salt Industry Bureau) also quickly reported the situation to the deputy mayor in charge, Chen Weimin. In the afternoon, Chen Weimin went down to the market to investigate the situation. Action faster Fuzhou City, Lianjiang County Government, in the morning that has been issued through the television media, the government security announcement. "Rumors are coming in from Zhejiang, spreading to Fuding City and Gutian County through Xiapu County in Ningde, and then to Fuzhou." Fuzhou Salt Bureau Director Lin Gaozhi told CBN reporter that the Division *** have 7 vehicles to 1000 outlets in Fuzhou City, the order quantity of nearly 1,800 tons / month, the rush, the total amount of reserves of the quarter has been used up, Fujian Salt Company has been urgently deployed from the neighboring city of Putian City and Fuzhou Pingtan Salt transfer, 23 should be able to cover the city's major supermarkets. Fujian Provincial Salt Bureau (Provincial Salt Company) franchise department manager Luo Jianqiang told CBN version is that on June 21, Ningde City, Xiapu County rumors spread suddenly, said the salt field is contaminated, salt out of stock and to increase the price of salt, many people rush to buy salt, part of the townships are out of stock, individual places 1 yuan / packet was speculated by the unscrupulous vendors to 3 ~ 5 yuan. That night, the rumor spread to Ningde City, Jiaocheng District and Fuzhou City, triggering the public rush to buy, some stores out of stock. He gave the data that the usual daily order quantity in Ningde area and Fuzhou area were 44 tons and 77 tons respectively, but from the night of the 21st to 10:00 on the 22nd, the order quantity surged to 321 tons and 716 tons. After the salt incident, Fujian Salt Company immediately launched an emergency plan, set up to deal with sudden events to protect the salt supply coordination headquarters, and telegrams to the branches and iodized salt plant every two hours to report the situation, and overtime production, to ensure that the inventory, increase the number of vehicles transfer, while reflecting the situation to the government and the media, issued a bulletin to dispel rumors, but also Fuzhou, Ningde, the two cities of the salt scheduling authority back to the command. Before this reporter went to press, the command has been asked to first ensure that major supermarkets, retail outlets supply, all types of outlets according to the normal monthly sales of limited supply, to prevent unscrupulous traders hoarding. Luo Jianqiang said that at present, production and inventory are normal throughout the province, the company's logistics fleet will work overtime distribution. CBN also learned that in early June, Fujian Province, an important salt production base in Zhangzhou City, also suffered a salt rush storm, the storm originated from a "seawater pollution, salt will not be able to eat" rumors, rush wind from Zhangzhou City under the jurisdiction of the Yunxiao County, Dongxia Town, Zhangzhou City, has subsided.