date:Jan 07, 2013
The growth of consumer prices is expected to have accelerated in December, as bad weather has decreased food supplies, according to results from a recent survey by Xinhua News Agency.
The average forecast for the December growth of the consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, stood at 2.3 percent, according to a survey conducted among financial institutions and economists.
The rate was higher than the 2-percent growth logged in November and 1.7 percent in October, which at that time ma