date:Mar 14, 2013
declines of 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
Food prices account for about one-third of the prices used to calculate the consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation.
China's CPI grew by a 10-month high of 3.2 percent in February, due to rising food prices during the Spring Festival, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on March 9.