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China's consumer prices remained flat in September while factory-gate prices fell at a slower pace, official data showed on Friday. |
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, remains unchanged from a year earlier, down from a 0.1 percent year-on-year rise in August, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics. |
Dong Lijuan, an NBS statistician, said China's CPI stayed flat in September due to the high comparison base in the previous year. |
Within the CPI, food prices dipped 3.2 percent year-on-year in September, compared with a 1.7 percent decline in August. Meanwhile, non-food prices posted a rise of 0.7 percent compared to a year earlier after a 0.5 percent growth in August. |
Prices for pork - a staple for Chinese dinner tables - decreased by 22 percent in September compared with a year earlier, while fresh vegetable prices dipped by 6.4 percent year-on-year. |
On a month-on-month basis, September's CPI surged 0.2 percent after a 0.3 percent rise in August. |
The growth in core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is deemed a better gauge of the supply-demand relationship in the economy, rose by 0.8 percent year-on-year in September, flat with the reading in August. |
Meanwhile, China's producer price index, which gauges factory-gate prices, was down 2.5 percent from a year earlier in September after the 3 percent annual contraction seen in August, the NBS said. |
On a month-on-month basis, the PPI rose by 0.4 percent in September after a 0.2 percent rise in August, according to the NBS. |
Dong said the year-on-year decline in PPI has narrowed due to factors including improved demand for industrial products and the international oil price spikes. |
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