China's consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.6 percent year on year in March, while in the first quarter of the year it increased by 3.8 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.
In the given month, China's producer price index (PPI) was down 0.3 percent year on year - the first time the PPI has indicated negative year-on-year growth since December 2009 - but registered a month-on-month increase of 0.3 percent. In the first three months of the current year, China's PPI rose 0.1 percent year on year.