date:Jul 10, 2014
esser impact from the carryover effects from last year, and fewer new factors for price gains compared to May, said Yu Qiumei, a senior NBS statistician.
In June, inflation in the country's urban regions grew 2.4 percent, higher than the 2.1 percent in the rural regions, NBS data showed.
Food prices, which account for around one third of the weighting in the CPI calculation, grew at a tempered rate of 3.7 percent year on year last month, down from the 4.1-percent growth in May. Food prices in