China Releases More Pork From Reserve to Cool Prices

A clerk stacks cuts of pork at a meat market in Beijing on Sept. 11, 2019. Chinese families are having to rethink menu options as prices for pork soar despite government efforts to boost inventories after herds were decimated by African swine fever and large-scale closures of pig farms for environmental reasons Fu Ting/AP

BEIJING—The Chinese regime is releasing more pork from stockpiles to help cool surging prices ahead of celebrations of the Communist Party’s 70th anniversary in power.

The regime said on Sept. 26 it will auction off 10,000 tons of pork, the country’s staple meat. It was the second release in two weeks following a similar announcement Sept. 18.