Living in the Inflation 在物价上涨中生活.docVIP

Living in the Inflation 在物价上涨中生活从“蒜你狠”到“豆你玩”再到“糖高宗”、“棉花掌”，由中国网民创造用以调侃物价上涨的网络新词层出不穷，折射出中国人正频繁遭遇物价上涨压力。一片“涨”声中，让我们看看居民的生活有着哪些变化。 Growing inflationary（通货膨胀） pressure on the Chinese mainland, led by rising food prices, is driving mainland buyers to Hong Kong to fill their shopping carts. More and more residents in Guangdong Province, especially Shenzhen, have in the past few weeks been queuing to cross the border into Hong Kong to buy sugar, salt, soybean sauce and even tissue paper in bulk to cushion increasing pressure from rising food prices at home. While prices are rising so fast, many people are trying to use every method to cut down their expenditures. Du Zhenqi, an 80-year-old resident in Beijing?s Chaoyang District, expressed his sympathy for the people who took away his towel gourds(丝瓜) without permission. Every year Du plants towel gourds in the community yard for decoration. But this year, before they turned ripe, they were all picked by his neighbors for food. “The prices of many kinds of vegetables, not only the towel gourds, have gone up dramatically,” said Du. “So I understand those people and it pleased me to offer my help to them.” The food price surge in China has made residents with low incomes feel serious financial pressure and forced them to spend wisely. An online collection of practical money-saving hints is thus becoming increasingly popular among Chinese people. If you search “money-saving strategies” on Baidu, you will find 4.27 million entries in 0.19 seconds. The collection provides tips such as choosing local and seasonal products, avoiding buying vegetables on rainy or snowy days when higher transport costs increase prices, using e-commerce websites for purchases and planting vegetables on the balcony. Some netizens consider buying in bulk to stay within a tight budget. Fei Yuqin, who lives in Jiading District in Shanghai, frequently hurries to a farmers? market before 6 a.m. to buy large amounts of vegetables for her family