BEIJING: China’s consumer inflation edged up in July, official data showed on Monday, partly because of rising food prices from flood-related disruptions and as the country recovers from the coronavirus outbreak.
The consumer price index (CPI), a key gauge of retail inflation, had been pushed up over the past year by livestock prices after China’s pig herds were ravaged by African swine fever, with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak later hitting supply chains.
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