Guangzhou (JLC), May 12, 2026--China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased by 1.2% year on year in April, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 1.2% from a year before in April.
On a month-on-month comparison, China's CPI edged up 0.3%.
In the first four months this year, the CPI was up 0.9% from one year earlier, the NBS data shows.
China's producer price index (PPI), which measures factory-gate goods prices, grew 2.8% year on year in April, the NBS data also shows.
On a month-on-month comparison, the PPI in April climbed by 1.7%.
In January-April this year, the PPI edged up 0.2% from the same period of last year, according to the NBS data.
