Figure from the National Bureau of Statistics
China News Service, April 11. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 11th, in March 2022, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 1.5% year-on-year.
Among them, food prices fell by 1.5%, and non-food prices rose by 2.2%.
Among food, the price of pork dropped by 41.4%, affecting the CPI by about 0.83 percentage points; the price of fresh vegetables increased by 17.2%, affecting the CPI by about 0.37 percentage points; the grain price increased by 2.0%, affecting the CPI by about 0.04 percentage points.
On average from January to March, the national consumer price rose by 1.1% over the same period of the previous year.
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