CPI in August rose 2.5% year -on -year

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 9 (Reporter Shen Yan, Wei Yukun) The National Bureau of Statistics released data on the 9th. In August, the National Residents' Consumption Price Index (CPI) rose 2.5%year -on -year, and the increase fell 0.2 percentage points from the previous month.

"In August, all regions and departments conscientiously implemented the decision -making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, worked hard to overcome the impact of epidemic and extreme weather, actively do a good job of stable and stable price, and the consumer market operation was generally stable." Dong Lijuan said.

Statistics show that in August, food prices rose 6.1%year -on -year, and the increase fell 0.2 percentage points from last month. In food, the price of pork rose 22.4%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points from the previous month; the prices of chicken and duck meat rose 6.6%and 12.7%, respectively; the prices of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables rose 16.3%and 6.0%, respectively.

In August, non -food prices rose 1.7%year -on -year, and the increase fell 0.2 percentage points from last month. Among them, the prices of gasoline, diesel, and liquefied petroleum gas rose by 20.2%, 21.9%, and 19.8%, respectively, and the increases fell.

From a month -on -month perspective, in August, CPI rose from 0.5%last month to decreased by 0.1%. Among them, food prices rose 0.5%, an increase of 2.5 percentage points from the previous month.

According to estimates, in August, the core CPI that deducted food and energy prices rose 0.8%year -on -year, the same as last month.

In August, affected by various factors such as international crude oil, non -ferrous metals such as the price fluctuation transmission of commodities such as commodities, and the weak market demand in the domestic industry, the price trend of industrial products declined as a whole. The national industrial producer's factory price index (PPI) declined slightly from the previous month, and the year -on -year increase continued to fall. PPI decreased by 1.2%month -on -month, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from the previous month; a year -on -year increase of 2.3%, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the previous month.

[Editor in charge: Gu Yan]

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