China CPI Increase 4.5%

Citizens buy vegetable at a supermarket in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 27, 2012. China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Feb. 9, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Li Jian>

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