There are no signs of revolutionary ferment among the farmers unloading boxes of oranges and sacks of garlic in the warehouses of Beijing’s largest wholesale produce market.
But it is places like this that the Communist party is watching closely for evidence of spiking food prices that many believe could threaten its grip on power.
Every day thousands of trucks trundle into the Xinfadi (literally, and unimaginatively, “new wholesale place”) market in the south-west of the capital carrying heavy loads of vegetables, fruit and meat from across the country and beyond. It attracts vendors from across the city, many visiting at night to buy produce to sell in open markets and supermarkets closer to the city centre.
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