A customer shops at a supermarket in Qingzhou, east China\’s Shandong Province, March 9, 2024. (Photo by Wang Jilin/Xinhua)
BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) — China\’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.1 percent year on year in March, official data showed Thursday.
On a monthly basis, the CPI went down 1 percent in March, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The core CPI, deducting food and energy prices, went up 0.6 percent year on year last month, maintaining a mild increase, according to the NBS.