Does it sound natural and grammatically correct? Any alternatives?
When a central senior official was visiting a local place, people living there shouted to her, "it's all fake. The vegetables served to us [by residential committee of the CCP] are at high prices.
[From other source: the price is at least twice higher than elsewhere in wholesale markets nearby.]

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Does it sound natural and grammatically correct? Any alternatives?
When a central senior official was visiting a local place, people living there shouted to her, "it's all fake. The vegetables served to us [by residential committee of the CCP] are at high prices. 
[From other source: the price is at least twice higher than elsewhere in wholesale markets nearby.]

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Thank you

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The meaning is totally clear! Grammatically, the beginning should either be "When...visited" or "While...was visiting" - which one depends on how the rest of the sentence is phrased. I've never heard "people living there" before, and shouting isn't really done "to" someone. Keeping the quotation as a direct translation is probably fine, even though it sounds awkward (maybe replace "served" with "sold"). So overall, I would write "When a senior official visited [local place, insert name here], (s)he was met by residents (or "members of the community") shouting "(quotation)".

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