BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose by 0.2 per cent year-on-year in December, compared with a 0.5 per cent decline in November, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday (Jan11).
Dong Lijuan, a NBS statistician, attributed the rise mainly to the pickup in consumer demand, the cold weather that pushed up food prices, and rising production costs.
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