China’s CPI up 0.5% in January
BEIJING – China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, was up 0.5 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. The figure was up from the 0.1-percent increase registered last month, largely due to the influence of the Spring Festival holiday, said NBS statistician Dong Lijuan. The core…