China's CPI down 0.5% in Nov
11月CPI同比下降0.5%
China's consumer price index posted the first year-on-year drop in 11 years last month, as pork prices declined while nonfood prices remained subdued, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. CPI, the main gauge of inflation, dropped by 0.5 percent year-on-year in November, marking the first decline since October 2009, according to the NBS.
12月9日,國家統計局公布的數據顯示,由于豬肉價格下跌,非食品價格持續低迷,11月份全國居民消費價格(CPI)同比下降0.5%,創近11年新低,為2009年10月首次出現負增長。
Dong Lijuan, a NBS statistician, attributed the decline in consumer prices mainly to dropping food prices.
國家統計局統計師董莉娟表示,食品價格下降是CPI下降的主因。

Pork prices, in particular, slumped by 12.5 percent year-on-year from a high comparison base last year as pork production continued to recover.
尤其是豬肉價格,隨著生產持續恢復,又受到去年同期對比基數較高影響,同比下降12.5%。
Nonfood prices edged down by 0.1 percent year-on-year in November, the bureau said, with the prices for transportation, especially petrol and diesel oil, dropping, while those for healthcare and education rising.
11月非食品價格同比下降0.1%,其中交通價格,尤其是汽油和柴油價格下降,而醫療保健和教育的價格上漲。
The core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.5% year-on-year last month, the fifth consecutive month for the index to register the same growth, the bureau said.
11月,扣除食品和能源價格的核心CPI同比上漲0.5%,漲幅已連續5個月相同。