Update: China's CPI up 0.3 pct in April-Xinhua

Update: China's CPI up 0.3 pct in April

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2024-05-11 10:40:15

A consumer selects vegetables at a market in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, April 11, 2024. (Photo by Liang Zidong/Xinhua)

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.3 percent year on year in April, official data showed Saturday.

On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.1 percent in April, reversing the 1-percent fall from the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The core CPI, deducting food and energy prices, went up 0.7 percent year on year last month, expanding 0.1 percentage points from March, according to the NBS. 

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