Putting the lid on inflation

Slower economic growth, better control of liquidity and changes in product structure will help tame rising prices

China's new round of inflation pressures is a combination of a variety of complicated internal and external, short-term and long-term factors.

While China's economy was hit by the global financial crisis, it quickly regained momentum following a series of stimulus packages and its average annual growth rate was 11.2 percent over the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) period.