date:Mar 05, 2013
le meat in China, dropped 1.7 percent, while that for beef and mutton rose slightly by 0.4 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Food prices account for about one-third of the prices used to calculate the consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation.
The country's CPI grew 2 percent year on year in January, down from a seven-month high of 2.5 percent in December, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.
The NBS will release the CPI figures for February on Saturday. M