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1st LD: China May consumer prices up 2 pct year on year

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's consumer prices grew 2 percent in May from one year earlier, official data showed Thursday.

On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, shrank 0.5 percent in May from April, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement. Endit