Authorities try to dilute salt-buying panic
By Cheng Yingqi, Zhang Xiaomin and Wu Yiyao | China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-19 07:43
A worker places newly delivered salt onto a shelf at a supermarket in Jinan, Shandong province, on Friday. Zhu Xiang / Xinhua |
BEIJING / SHANGHAI - The Ministry of Commerce on Friday joined other government agencies in assuring the public of "substantial" salt reserves as panic buying prompted by radiation fears over Japan's crippled nuclear power plant continued in some Chinese cities.
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