Living in China: Beijing’s Consumer Price Index rose 6.5% in April 2008
Beijing’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 6.5% in April, according to the latest statistics from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics Beijing Survey Organization. Food prices rose 21.6%; while non-food prices rose 0.3%. Consumer goods prices rose 8.7% and that of service rose 0.8%.
Food prices increased by 21.6% as compared with the same month last year, among which grain prices increased 9.0%; oil prices increased 29.2%; meat and its products prices increased 46.8%; egg prices increased 6.3%; aquatic products increased 19.9%; and vegetables prices increased 11.4%.
The following are the three categories with a decline in CPI in April: traffic and communication prices dropped 3.6%; entertainment, education and service prices dropped 2.4%; and clothing prices dropped 0.4%.
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