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Urgent: China aims to keep inflation at around 3 percent in 2015

Xinhua, March 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

China aims to hold this year's rise in the consumer price index (CPI) at around 3 percent, according to a government work report to be delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the parliament's annual session Thursday.

The goal is lower than the target of around 3.5 percent in 2014. The CPI, a main gauge of inflation pressure, rose 2 percent in 2014 year on year. Endi