A customer buys vegetables at a supermarket in Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Sun Zhongzhe/Xinhua)
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday.
The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June.
The slower growth was partly driven by a drop in food prices, which declined 3.7 percent year on year last month. In particular, the price of pork, a staple meat in China, slumped 43.5 percent year on year in July.
Customers buy vegetables at a supermarket in Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Yang Wukui/Xinhua)
A customer buys vegetables at a supermarket in Handan, north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Hao Qunying/Xinhua)
A customer buys edible oil at a supermarket in Qingzhou, east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Wang Jilin/Xinhua)
A customer buys vegetables at a supermarket in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Sun Zhongnan/Xinhua)
A supermarket staff shelves cherry tomatoes in Zunhua City of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 9, 2021. China's consumer price index (CPI), one of the main gauges of inflation, rose 1 percent year on year in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. The figure was lower than the 1.1 percent year-on-year growth recorded in June. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
