China Wholesale Food Prices: Xinfadi & National Index

Get daily wholesale food prices in China as clean JSON. No login, no Chinese needed.

• Beijing Xinfadi (北京新发地), China's largest wholesale food market: about 470 prices every day for vegetables, fruit, pork, beef, lamb, eggs, poultry, fish, seafood, rice and oil, with min / max / average price, unit, spec and origin province
• History since 2022-01-01: any day or date range
• National indexes from the Ministry of Agriculture's price portal (全国农产品批发市场价格信息网): the Agricultural Products Wholesale Price 200 Index, "vegetable basket" index, grain & oil, vegetables, fruit, livestock and aquatic indexes
• Daily movers: the 20 products whose national average wholesale price moved most since the previous day
• Hog prices (optional): live hog, corn and soybean meal prices and the hog-to-grain ratio, national and for all 31 provinces
• English category names and prices converted to CNY per kg

Use cases

• Food inflation and CPI nowcasting: Chinese food prices days before official statistics.
• Commodity and agri trading: pork, eggs, vegetables and fruit price trends.
• Food companies, importers and exporters: track the Chinese wholesale market for your products.
• Research and journalism: long daily time series for hundreds of products.
• Monitoring: schedule a daily run and send the results to Google Sheets, Slack or your database.

Example input

{
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
  "categories": ["meatEggs"],
  "products": ["猪", "鸡蛋"],
  "includeNationalData": true
}

Leave the dates empty to get the latest published day.

Output

A Xinfadi price:

{
  "type": "price",
  "market": "北京新发地 (Beijing Xinfadi)",
  "date": "2026-10-07",
  "product": "大白菜",
  "spec": null,
  "category": "蔬菜",
  "categoryEnglish": "Vegetables",
  "minPrice": 0.35,
  "maxPrice": 0.45,
  "avgPrice": 0.4,
  "unit": "斤",
  "avgPricePerKg": 0.8,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "origin": "冀",
  "originProvinces": ["河北"]
}

A national index and a national mover:

{ "type": "nationalIndex", "date": "2026-09-30", "indexName": "农产品批发价格200指数", "indexNameEnglish": "Agricultural Products Wholesale Price 200 Index", "value": 115.36, "previousValue": 115.32, "change": 0.04 }
{ "type": "nationalMover", "date": "2026-10-07", "product": "豆角", "avgPrice": 6.846, "previousAvgPrice": 6.6683, "changePct": 2.66, "unit": "元/公斤" }

• Prices are in CNY. Most Xinfadi prices are per 斤 (jin, 500 g); avgPricePerKg converts them. Some items are priced per box (箱), piece (个) or basket (筐).
• origin uses Chinese province abbreviations (冀 = Hebei, 蒙 = Inner Mongolia, 鲁 = Shandong...); originProvinces spells them out.
• Product names are in Chinese as published. Use the Product names filter with Chinese keywords: 猪 pork, 牛 beef, 羊 lamb, 鸡蛋 eggs, 白菜 cabbage, 土豆 potato, 苹果 apple, 大米 rice.

Hog prices

Turn on Include hog prices to add today's farm-gate prices from China Pig Net (中国养猪网), the reference for China's hog market:

• Live hogs: 外三元 (crossbred), 内三元 (domestic three-way cross) and 土杂猪 (local breeds), in CNY per kg
• Feed: corn and soybean meal, in CNY per tonne (also converted to CNY per kg)
• Hog-to-grain ratio (猪粮比), the government's profitability benchmark
• National, with day-on-day, year-on-year and month-on-month changes, plus any of the 31 provinces (or "all") with day-on-day changes

{
  "type": "hogPrice",
  "date": "2026-10-11",
  "region": "全国",
  "regionEnglish": "China (national)",
  "product": "生猪(外三元)",
  "productEnglish": "Live hog (crossbred, Duroc x Landrace x Yorkshire)",
  "price": 10.26,
  "unit": "元/公斤",
  "pricePerKg": 10.26,
  "changeFromPreviousDay": 0.02,
  "yoyChangePct": -8.39,
  "momChangePct": -6.3,
  "hogGrainRatio": 4.37
}

Hog prices are today's values only (China Pig Net keeps its history for paying members); schedule a daily run to build a history.

Pricing

$0.0005 per record. One full day (about 500 records including the national data) costs about $0.25; one product category for a month is usually a few hundred records. Hog prices for all provinces add 160 records ($0.08).

Notes and limits

• Xinfadi publishes prices every day, with fewer items on public holidays.
• The national indexes and movers are always the latest published values (not historical).
• Only public data is collected.

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