AP China's communist leaders are striving to keep food flowing to crowded cities despite anti-disease controls. That also kept trucks off the road, disrupting supplies of food to markets, feed to farmers and poultry to slaughterhouses. China already was struggling with surging food prices due to an outbreak of African swine fever that began in 2018. AP Workers prepares packs of pork mince at a food processing plant in Suining city in southwest China's Sichuan province. JD.com, Alibaba Group and smaller rivals say they are delivering meat, vegetables and other supplies in locked-down cities.

Source: Stuff February 08, 2020 07:41 UTC