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)