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Across China: Beijing
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-25 08:01 Food prices The Beijing Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped 1.4 percent in April compared with a year ago, according to statistics released by the Beijing Statistics Bureau. Food prices, a major gauge of inflation, climbed 2.4 percent in April in Beijing from a year earlier. Prices of vegetables rose 7.4 percent and prices of grain increased 5.4 percent, said the Beijing Statistics Bureau. (China Daily 05/25/2009 page5) |
