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.
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The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 5.9 percent in March from a year earlie.
) e X) N! n) S5 z China’s PPI went up 5.2 percent year on year in the first quarter, said NBS. |