Act against price manipulators, local governments ordered

Premier Wen Jiabao has ordered local governments to crack down on merchants who deliberately stock up on food products or release false information to drive up prices.

Mr Wen, who inspected an open market in Beijing yesterday, said stabilising food supplies and prices was vital to national development. The central government had already issued a series of measures and he believed soaring prices of pork and other foods would soon be brought back to normal.

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