China News Service, May 12, according to the National Bureau of Statistics website, in April 2020, national consumer prices rose 3.3% year-on-year. Among them, urban prices rose 3.0%, rural areas rose 4.0%; food prices rose 14.8%, non-food prices rose 0.4%; consumer goods prices rose 4.7%, and service prices rose 0.9%. On average from January to April, national consumer prices rose by 4.5% over the same period last year.
In April, national consumer prices fell by 0.9% month-on-month. Among them, the city fell by 0.8%, the rural fell by 1.0%; food prices fell by 3.0%, non-food prices fell by 0.2%; consumer goods prices fell by 1.3%, and service prices remained flat.
Year-on-year changes in the prices of various goods and services
In April, the price of food, tobacco and alcohol increased by 11.3% year-on-year, which affected the CPI (Consumer Price Index) to increase by approximately 3.39 percentage points. In food, the price of livestock meat increased by 66.7%, affecting CPI by about 2.97 percentage points, of which pork price increased by 96.9%, affecting CPI by about 2.36 percentage points; the price of aquatic products rose by 2.3%, affecting CPI by about 0.04 percentage points; food prices Increased by 1.2%, affecting CPI by about 0.02 percentage points; fresh fruit prices decreased by 10.5%, affected CPI by about 0.21 percentage points; fresh vegetable prices decreased by 3.7%, affected CPI by about 0.10 percentage points; egg prices decreased by 2.7%, affected CPI It fell by about 0.02 percentage points.
The prices of the other seven categories rose four times and dropped three times year-on-year. Among them, the prices of other supplies and services and medical care increased by 4.8% and 2.2% respectively, the prices of education, culture and entertainment, daily necessities and services increased by 2.0% and 0.1% respectively; the prices of transportation and communications, clothing and housing decreased by 4.9% and 0.4 respectively % And 0.3%.
Monetary price changes of various goods and services
In April, the price of food, tobacco and alcohol decreased by 2.1% month-on-month, affecting the CPI by about 0.68 percentage points. In food, the price of fresh vegetables decreased by 8.0%, affecting CPI by approximately 0.23 percentage points; the price of livestock meat decreased by 5.5%, affecting CPI by approximately 0.42 percentage points, of which pork price decreased by 7.6%, affecting CPI by approximately 0.38 percentage points; fresh fruit prices A decrease of 2.2% will affect CPI by about 0.04 percentage points; egg prices will fall by 1.9%, which will affect CPI by about 0.01 percentage points; food prices will rise by 0.4%, which will affect CPI by about 0.01 percentage points.
The prices of the other seven categories rose one by six and fell. Among them, the price of health care rose by 0.2%; the prices of transportation and communications, housing, education, culture and entertainment fell by 1.2%, 0.2% and 0.2% respectively, and the prices of clothing, daily necessities and services, and other supplies and services all fell by 0.1%.