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In Chap. 3, we revealed why local vegetable operators or farmers turned away from Dongwayao Marketplace and chose Meitong Marketplace and other secondary marketplaces, namely, their difficulty in ensuring a transaction site in the marketplace. Based on this, we will focus this chapter on discussing the changes and reasons regarding vegetable transaction sites in Dongwayao Marketplace, as well as its influence on different kinds of vegetable circulation, namely, that of local and nonlocal vegetables.
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Interviews and surveys of operators in wholesale markets for agricultural products in Hohhot, Xi’an, Guiyang, Lanzhou, and Chengdu show that all wholesale markets for agricultural products in the above-mentioned cities are private enterprises.
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The rise in price is one of the factors affecting business income. According to the data of vegetable prices collected from Dongwayao Marketplace, which have been submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, while taking cucumbers, cabbage, potatoes, onions, and other common vegetables as an example, the (pure) average price respectively increased from RMB 1.45, RMB 0.35, RMB 0.25, and RMB 0.60 per kilo in October 2002 to RMB 3.15, RMB 0.81, RMB 2.00, and RMB 1.16 per kilo in October 2010. Such data helps us infer that the vegetable price in Hohhot increased twice between 2002 and 2010.
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Farmer-sellers do not need to load and unload vegetables in Dongwayao Marketplace because they will sell directly from their tricycle or four-wheeler.
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The data from interviews and surveys of operators in Dongwayao Marketplace shows that there was not one idle fixed stall in November 2011.
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Some primary wholesalers rented two fixed stalls at one time, leading to fewer resident primary wholesalers than fixed stalls.
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Zhao, L. (2015). Reorganization of the Vegetable Wholesale Market. In: Survivable Restructuring of Vegetable Distribution and Wholesale Markets in Western China. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47253-8_4
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