# China Wholesale Food Prices: Xinfadi & National Index (`sinodata/china-agri-prices`) Actor

Daily China wholesale food prices, no login: 470+ vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, seafood and grain prices from Beijing Xinfadi (新发地) with history since 2022, plus the national wholesale price indexes and daily movers from China's Ministry of Agriculture.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/china-agri-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.45 / 1,000 prices

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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:

```json
{
  "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:

```json
{ "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

```json
{
  "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.

### Feedback

Need another market or a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

First day of Xinfadi prices, YYYY-MM-DD. Leave both dates empty for the latest published day. History goes back to 2022-01-01.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Last day, YYYY-MM-DD (default: same as From date).

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Only these product categories (leave empty for all).

## `products` (type: `array`):

Only products whose Chinese name contains one of these, e.g. 猪 (pork), 鸡蛋 (eggs), 白菜 (cabbage), 苹果 (apple). Leave empty for all.

## `maxPrices` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit on Xinfadi price records per run. One day has about 470.

## `includeNationalData` (type: `boolean`):

Also save the Ministry of Agriculture's national wholesale price indexes (200 index, vegetable basket, grain & oil...) and the day's 20 biggest price movers. Always the latest values.

## `includeHogPrices` (type: `boolean`):

Also save today's live hog prices (外三元, 内三元, 土杂猪), corn and soybean meal prices and the hog-to-grain ratio from China Pig Net (中国养猪网): national by default, provinces below.

## `hogRegions` (type: `array`):

Provinces for hog prices in Chinese or English (e.g. 河南, Guangdong), or "all" for all 31. The national price is always included.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxPrices": 2000,
  "includeNationalData": true,
  "includeHogPrices": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/china-agri-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sinodata/china-agri-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call sinodata/china-agri-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/china-agri-prices"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ahxaj876xkG8TtVsi/builds/rSHH1uxu7FJdUyc9a/openapi.json