Hubei Daily News (Reporter Li Jianjun, Correspondent Luo Zhaobin) On June 11, the Hubei Investigation Team of the National Bureau of Statistics released a message: In May, Hubei's consumer price (CPI) rose 2.4%, a 1.9 percentage point narrower than last month. Among them, urban prices rose by 2.1% and rural areas by 3.0%; food prices rose by 10.8% and non-food prices rose by 0.2%; consumer goods prices rose by 3.4% and service prices rose by 0.5%.
In May, the epidemic situation in our province was generally stable, the resumption of production and production, and the resumption of business and orderly progress in an orderly manner, and the market supply and demand situation further improved. From a quarter-on-quarter perspective, Hubei's CPI fell by 1.7%, of which cities fell by 1.8% and rural areas by 1.4%; food prices fell by 5.8% and non-food prices fell by 0.5%; consumer goods prices fell by 2.0% and service prices fell by 1.2%.
According to analysis, in May, the price of food, tobacco and alcohol decreased by 4.0% month-on-month, affecting a decrease of about 1.33 percentage points in CPI, which was the primary factor that narrowed the increase in CPI over the previous month. In food, the price of livestock meat decreased by 9.4%, affecting CPI by about 0.70 percentage points, of which pork price decreased by 12.6%, affecting CPI by about 0.66 percentage points; the price of fresh vegetables decreased by 16.9%, affecting CPI by about 0.48 percentage points; fresh melon If the price drops by 2.7%, it will affect the CPI by about 0.05 percentage points; the egg price will drop by 6.8%, which will affect the CPI by about 0.04 percentage points.
The prices of the other seven categories rose three times, fell three times and leveled up. Among them, the prices of other supplies and services, clothing and healthcare increased by 0.5%, 0.3% and 0.2% respectively; the prices of housing, transportation and communications, education, culture and entertainment decreased by 1.6%, 0.9% and 0.1% respectively; the prices of daily necessities and services The same as last month.
In May, the year-on-year increase in consumer prices in Hubei was the same as the national average, ranking 11th among the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the country and Heilongjiang. The top four provinces and cities in the country were Sichuan (3.6%) and Yunnan (3.6%), Guangxi (3.5%) and Guangdong (3.0%). Among the six provinces in central China, Hubei ranked second, with a 0.4 percentage point lower than Shanxi. From January to May, Hubei's CPI rose 0.9 percentage points higher than the national average, ranking third in the country with Guangxi. The top two provinces and cities in the country were Sichuan (5.3%) and Yunnan (5.2%).