Today's data highlights: The price of Chinese medicinal materials has continued to rise this year; the average monthly income of undergraduates in 2023 is 6,050 yuan

Cheap overseas beef is pouring into China, and raising a cow in China means a loss of 6,000 yuan

Monitoring data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs showed that as of 14:00 on June 12, the price of beef in the national agricultural product wholesale market was 61.02 yuan/kg, a drop of 24% compared with the beginning of the year, falling back to the level of three years ago.

From the supply side, the reasons for the changes in beef prices include both internal and external factors. Internally, domestic beef production has hit new highs and the number of culled dairy cows has accelerated. Externally, cheap beef continues to pour in from overseas. The combined forces of internal and external factors have led to oversupply.

Industry insiders told reporters that global deflation has led to an overcapacity of beef production abroad, which has made imported beef cheaper than domestic beef. With a large amount of beef from Argentina, Australia, Brazil and other countries entering the domestic market, coupled with the fact that domestic demand for beef is not that high, and the consumption rate is not as high as pork and chicken, supply exceeds demand, leading to a drop in beef prices.

In contrast, domestic beef cattle farmers and slaughterhouses are having a hard time. Based on the current market price of 21 yuan per kilogram for fattening cattle, farmers will lose about 6,000 yuan for raising a cow.

In the past few days, many cities in the north have entered high temperature areas one after another, and the temperatures have even reached 40000.

According to China Weather Network, on June 13, high temperatures in the North China Plain and other places are still at their peak. Temperatures of 40°C may appear in central and southern Hebei, northwestern Shandong, and central and northern Henan. The highest temperatures in some areas may be 43°C or even 44°C, which may approach or break the highest record in June or even the record in observation history.

The characteristics of this round of high temperature process are different from the usual ones: high ground temperature and long duration. In the afternoon, the surface temperature in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong may exceed 60℃, and even exceed 70℃ in some places. In this regard, some netizens joked that if you go out during this period, you may experience what it means to "burn your feet".

According to the Central Meteorological Observatory, as of 13:00 on June 13, the top two places on the national high temperature list were both in Henan, and 7 of the top 10 places were in Henan. Under the high temperature weather, many regions issued drought warnings, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an agricultural high temperature drought risk warning.

Yang Wentao, director of the Flood Control and Drought Relief Division of the Henan Provincial Emergency Management Department, said that since May, the rainfall in Henan Province has been more than 70% less than the multi-year average, and more than half of the meteorological monitoring stations have reached the level of moderate drought or above, and the scope of severe drought and extreme drought is expanding. As of June 12, the area in Henan Province that could not be planted due to drought reached 3.23 million mu.

The average monthly income of undergraduates in 2023 is 6,050 yuan. Only 7% of undergraduates have an average monthly income of over 10,000 yuan.

Data from the 2024 edition of the MyCOS Employment Blue Book shows that the average monthly income of undergraduate and vocational college graduates in 2023 was 6,050 yuan and 4,683 yuan respectively, a steady increase from the previous class.

The report shows that in terms of the starting salary distribution of fresh college graduates, the proportion of undergraduate and vocational college graduates in 2023 with an average monthly income below 6,000 yuan six months after graduation is 57.8% and 81.7% respectively, 6,000-8,000 yuan is 23.9% and 12.1% respectively, and 8,000 yuan or more is 18.3% and 6.2% respectively. Among them, the proportion of undergraduate graduates in 2023 with an average monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan six months after graduation is only 7.0%.

The price of Angong Niuhuang Pills has increased. The price of Chinese herbal medicines has continued to rise this year.

In the past two days, the news that Tong Ren Tang's Hong Kong version of Angong Niuhuang Pills has increased in price from HK$1,060 per pill to HK$1,280 per pill has aroused market nerves. Along with the price increase of Angong Niuhuang Pills, price monitoring on some professional Chinese medicine websites shows that the latest price of natural bezoar is 1.65 million yuan per kilogram, up 65% from the same period last year. From the price trend of Chinese medicines, it is not just the natural bezoar that has increased in price. Since the first half of this year, many Chinese medicine varieties have ushered in a wave of sharp increases. We have entered the traditional off-season for Chinese medicine sales, but the prices of some medicines are still strong.

After the price increase in the first half of this year, the price of Chinese herbal medicines has stabilized somewhat, but it is still hard to say what will happen in the future. When the market was booming last year, some growers increased their planting. Some Chinese herbal medicines require a three-year growth cycle. In this way, they may be put on the market in large quantities next year, which will suppress prices. But on the other hand, the recent continuous drought in some central regions has affected the planting of some Chinese herbal medicines. In any case, for downstream Chinese patent medicine companies, after the price increase of Chinese herbal medicines, they need to increase prices to absorb the cost pressure of raw materials, but in the context of medical insurance cost control, it is not easy to directly increase prices. In general, after the price increase of Chinese herbal medicines, the pressure and challenges brought to downstream Chinese patent medicine companies are great.

Apple fined 210 million won for allegedly illegally collecting user data

Apple was fined 210 million won by South Korean regulators for allegedly collecting location data without user consent and violating policy terms for disclosing location data.

Not only Apple, the Korea Communications Commission has fined 188 companies, including Google's Korean branch, which was fined 3 million won for allegedly violating the terms of the policy on disclosing location data.

Kim Hong-il, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, said: "Location information is an important resource for improving user convenience and the development of innovative industries, but we also need to consider the protection of personal privacy and social security when using this information." According to Apple, with your permission, location services will allow apps and websites to use information from cellular networks, wireless LANs, GPS networks and Bluetooth to determine your location.