China consumer prices rise at slower rate in March
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Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2024
China's inflation rate slowed in March, official data showed Thursday, as policymakers struggle to jumpstart persistently low spending in the world's second-largest economy. The consumer price index (CPI) last month edged up by 0.1 percent year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), below the 0.4 percent gain forecast by a Bloomberg poll of analysts. "In March, un