Key point: According to the joint monitoring by the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Shandong ZhuoChuang Information Co., Ltd., for the 8th week of 2026 (i.e., February 24-27, 2026, hereinafter referred to as this week), the weekly average value of the total index of factory prices for lean meat type white stripe pigs in 16 provinces (municipalities) was 15.01 yuan per kilogram, a decrease of 8.7% from the previous week, a decrease of 21.8% year-on-year, and an increase of 6.7 percentage points compared to the drop of the previous week.