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  Zhongxin Finance, January 12. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 12th, in December 2021, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 1.5% year-on-year.

Among them, food prices fell by 1.2%, and non-food prices rose by 2.1%.

Among the food products, the price of livestock and meat dropped by 22.2%, affecting the CPI drop by about 0.94 percentage points, of which the price of pork dropped by 36.7%, affecting the CPI drop by about 0.81 percentage points.

For the whole year of 2021, the national consumer price will increase by 0.9% over the previous year.