Nanjing price monitoring. The Nanjing Municipal Government’s affordable meat is checked on the Nanjing Price Monitoring Platform because the platform includes inquiries about Nanjing’s commodity prices and meat prices. Nanjing, referred to as "Ning", known as Jinling and Jiankang in ancient times, is the capital of Jiangsu Province, a sub-provincial city, a megacity, the core city of the Nanjing Metropolitan Area, and an important central city in eastern China approved by the State Council.