China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.7 percent year on year in February 2010, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday.

Food prices went up 6.2 percent last month year on year, with non-food prices rising 1 percent from a year earlier.

The figure was 1.2 percentage points higher compared with January.

China's CPI ended nine months of decline in last November, up 0.6 percent.

(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2010)