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.
Meanwhile, the producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, went down 2.8 percent year on year in March, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.
