China’s CPI growth slows to 4.1 percent in December

Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:55:32 (GMT+2)

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, in December 2011 China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose by 4.1 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.1 percentage point from November. For the whole of 2011, the CPI of China registered an increase of 5.4 percent compared to 2010.

As stated by the same source, in December China's producer price index (PPI) was up 1.7 percent year on year but down 0.3 percent month on month. Meanwhile, in 2011 China's PPI recorded an increase of six percent as compared with 2010.

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