China's consumer price
index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 3.2 percent year on year in
February, the lowest growth since June 2010, the National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
The increase eased from a 4.5-percent
rise registered in January, when a shopping spree during the traditional
Chinese Lunar New Year boosted retail prices.
The country's CPI climbed 3.9 percent in
the first two months compared with the previous year. On a monthly
basis, CPI dipped 0.1 percent in February, the NBS said.
Food prices, which account for nearly
one-third of the weighting in the calculation of China's CPI, increased
6.2 percent last month from one year earlier. Food price growth also
slowed from January's 10.5 percent rise.
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