Rising food prices upset Chinas shoppers

It is lunchtime at one of Beijing's busy open-air markets. Most of the stalls are crowded, but the meat counters are quiet.

Pork prices have jumped by as much as 70% in the last year in some parts of the country.

In fact, the prices of everything in the market seem to be on the up.

In a country where people have grown used to having more money in their pockets, that has come as a shock.

"We earn 1-2,000 yuan a month," says one woman shopper. "Now everything - including noodles, vegetables and meat prices - is going up. They're too expensive, we can barely afford it."

Twenty years of a booming economy mean that an entire generation has grown up in prosperity.