According to the monitoring of the Ministry ofCommerce, the market price of edible agricultural products in the country lastweek (March 4 to 10) was 0.3% higher than that of the previous week, and themarket price of production materials rose by 0.1% from the previous week.

Production materials market: Steel prices roseby 0.5% from the previous week. The prices of high-speed wire rod, rebar andwelded steel pipe were 4119 yuan, 4063 yuan and 4223 yuan respectively, up0.6%, 0.6% and 0.4% respectively.