China's salt product structure accounts for 87% of well salt, 10% of sea salt and 3% of lake salt. The production of well salt and lake salt is not affected by nuclear pollution in Japan. China's salt production capacity is 50 million tons, and the salt consumption is maintained at around120,000 tons. The existing salt production capacity fully meets the annual consumption of edible salt, and the national supply is sufficient. Because the supply of salt far exceeds the demand, the price of salt has no upward trend.
China has established a relatively complete salt storage system and emergency management system. According to market demand, salt production enterprises can process raw salt into salt at any time. Salt wholesale enterprises also have the ability to ensure product distribution. The General Administration of Market Supervision deployed all localities to strengthen salt price monitoring, strengthen price supervision and law enforcement, and strictly investigate illegal activities such as hoarding, fabricating and spreading price increase information.
Factors affecting the price of salt
From the most intuitive point of view, the rise of salt price may be related to its production and supply chain. The purchase cost of raw materials, transportation cost and the tension of market supply may all affect their prices.
Under the background of globalization, macro factors such as climate change and unstable energy prices indirectly determine the production cost of salt. For example, climate change may affect the output of salt fields and make the supply of raw materials unstable; The fluctuation of energy price is directly related to the transportation and processing costs of salt. When these costs keep increasing, the price of salt will naturally rise.
Secondly, unscrupulous merchants deliberately spread false information, creating a panic atmosphere, causing people to buy a lot of salt, causing salt panic, increasing demand, and then pushing up the price of salt.
Reference to the above contents: People's Daily Online-General Administration of Market Supervision strengthens the supervision of aquatic food safety and salt price.