How much can vegetables cost? look at the big screen.

"if you want to know how much vegetables can be sold today, just look at the big screen in the market." In the early morning of the 4th, Zhang Qimin, a vegetable farmer from the streets of Los Angeles, told reporters at the Shouguang vegetable market. The big screen in Zhang Qimin's words actually refers to some of the original data of the vegetable price index released by Shouguang. In Shouguang, when the vegetable market opens in the early hours of every morning, the market authorities will analyze the previous day's sales and prices, calculate the average wholesale prices of vegetables, and publish them on the big screen to provide vegetable farmers with reference prices for wholesale vegetables of the day. On the 4th, the first expert Forum on vegetable Industry Development and vegetable Price Index was held in Shouguang. Shi Yufeng, dean of the School of Statistics at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, said that the establishment of a price index system is likely to put an end to large fluctuations in vegetable prices, such as "ginger", "garlic" and "beans you play".

Shouguang vegetable index has become a national weather vane.

Many people still remember the "Jiang your Army" in early 2014. at that time, the price of a kilo of ginger reached more than 20 yuan, which was even higher than the price of pork. This is the second time that the price of ginger has skyrocketed, and the previous "garlic is ruthless" and "beans you play" have also caused great market reactions. In recent years, some experts have been advising relevant government departments and units to improve the vegetable price index system.

Shouguang's vegetable price index system came into being. Up to now, it has been a year since the official statistics of the price index system were released.

"when the vegetable market opens in the early hours of every morning, the average wholesale prices of all kinds of vegetables yesterday will be immediately announced on the big screen." Lu Guodong, assistant manager of Shouguang Fruit and vegetable Wholesale Market, said that Shouguang's price index already covers 34 kinds of vegetables. Every day, the department in charge of the market will analyze the sales and prices of the previous day, calculate the average wholesale price of vegetables on that day, and announce it on the big screen of the market in the early morning of the next day. The most intuitive function of the price index is to provide vegetable farmers with a benchmark price or reference price for wholesale vegetables. Vegetable farmers can timely adjust the vegetable prices of the day according to the average wholesale prices of vegetables released on the big screen.

As Shouguang is one of the four major vegetable markets in China and the third largest vegetable producing area in the world, Shouguang's vegetable price index is the weather vane of national vegetable prices. At present, all the vegetable price index statistics in the country require that Shouguang vegetable price index must be covered, otherwise the data will not be representative.

Vegetable price system can reduce the risk of vegetable farmers.

According to Shi Yufeng, dean of the School of Statistics of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, the role of Shouguang vegetable price index is more than a price vane. Shi Yufeng said that Shandong Shouguang vegetable Industry holding Group is currently cooperating with big data and Index Research Institute of Shandong University of Finance and Economics. In the future, it is hoped that this price index can be made into a systematic system, which will play a guiding role not only to Shandong, but also to the whole country and even the whole world.

"it's like a stock market." Shi Yufeng takes the current stock market as an example, "for example, now we all know that the market has reached 4500 points, which represents the market of the whole stock market, not just a single stock." The price index system also hopes to achieve this. In addition to marking the daily wholesale price trend of vegetables, it is more important to cooperate with market analysis, including professional statistical data analysis, not only the price and market quotation, but also the forecast of the future market trend. Take the weather, social politics and other factors into the factors that affect the price system, and use big data's thinking to analyze the trend of the vegetable market. "

Shi Yufeng believes that vegetables are a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood. in recent years, phenomena such as "Jiang your army", "garlic you are ruthless" and "beans you play" have had a great impact on people's livelihood, and if you want to minimize the probability of these situations, it is necessary to establish a vegetable price index system.

Shi Yufeng said that after the vegetable price system is complete in the future, the vegetable futures market can be established like the stock market to reduce the risk of vegetable farmers growing vegetables to a certain extent. For example, at present, vegetable farmers grow vegetables all depends on the sky, if the market is good, they sell well, and if the market is bad, they can only accept their fate. After the futures market is established, vegetable farmers can list their products on the futures market in advance, so that the market price is set in advance, the risk is transferred, and the income is guaranteed.

Our province will build a price index system in an all-round way

The reporter learned from the Provincial Price Bureau that in addition to Shouguang's vegetable price system, our province is actively promoting the construction of Shandong price index. After a period of work, the first phase has been planned to include Shouguang vegetables, Linyi Mall, Golden Gong Live Pig, Zibo Chemical Industry, Yantai Apple, Luhua Edible Oil, Jinxiang garlic, Qingdao Rubber, Dongying Tire, Rizhao Timber and so on.

Search the website of Shandong price index system, from which anyone can know the recent average price of a product or a certain type of product and the price trend over a period of time, which is as detailed as the stock market.

The reporter learned that at present, Shouguang vegetable Wholesale Price Index, Linyi Mall Composite Index and Golden Gong Price Index have been reviewed by experts, officially released in December 2014, and synchronized with the China Development Network of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Wang Luyue, director of the price monitoring center of the Shandong Price Bureau, said that comprehensively promoting the construction of Shandong price index system can help "Shandong price" seize domestic and international voice. In the future big data era, it can effectively consolidate and promote the favorable price position of relevant industries in our province in the system of economic division of labor at home and abroad.