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Since April this year, the prices of live pigs and pork as well as vegetables and eggs have been rising, which lifted the consumer price index to a new high of 3.4 percent.

According to the subsistence allowance division under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, all local governments will launch emergency assistance programs to combat consumer goods prices fluctuation, and implement a subsidization scheme that better reflects the changing situation.

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