China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.4 percent year on year in March, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced here Thursday.+ P- B9 P& ~( q) p9 I
The figure was 0.7 percentage points lower than the previous month, and for the first quarter, it was up 2.2 percent考试用书
2 H6 G0 [% @9 Q/ m4 k5 ? The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 5.9 percent in March from a year earlie.; |9 C4 L0 D N5 ]5 k) d
China’s PPI went up 5.2 percent year on year in the first quarter, said NBS. |