Guangdong's consumer price index (CPI), a major gauge of measure inflation, rose by 3.2 percent in August from a year earlier. The growth rate was 0.1 percentage points higher compared with that in July.
Food prices, which account for about one third of the weighting in calculating the CPI, climbed 6 percent year on year in August. The price of pork and eggs has seen obvious growths of 5.2% and 7.1% respectively. The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 2.2 percent in August from a year earlier, 0.7 percent less than that in July.
