In June, the consumer price index went up by 6.4 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 6.2 percent in cities and 7.0 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 14.4 percent while the non-food prices increased by 3.0 percent. The prices of consumer goods went up by 7.4 percent and the prices of services grew by 4.0 percent. In June, the month-on-month change of consumer prices was up by 0.3 percent. Of which, prices in cities went up by 0.2 percent and that in rural areas rose by 0.4 percent. The food prices grew by 0.9 percent while the non-food prices maintained the same as last month. The prices of consumer goods rose by 0.4 percent, and the prices of services showed no change of growth.

1. Year-on-Year Changes of Prices of Different Categories

Food Prices went up by 14.4 percent year-on-year, contributing nearly 4.26 percentage points to the overall growth. Of which, the prices of grain rose by 12.4 percent, meaning 0.34 percentage point growth in the overall price level; meat, poultry and related products, up 32.3 percent, contributing 1.94 percentage points (price of pork was up by 57.1 percent, contributing 1.37 percentage points); fresh eggs, up 23.3 percent, contributing 0.16 percentage point; aquatic products, up 13.9 percent, contributing 0.32 percentage point; fresh vegetables, up 7.3 percent, contributing 0.18 percentage point; and fresh fruits, up 9.8 percent, contributing 0.19 percentage point.

Prices for tobacco and liquor went up by 2.7 percent year-on-year, of which, that for tobacco was up by 0.3 percent and liquor 6.6 percent.

Prices for clothing rose by 2.1 percent year-on-year. The clothes prices went up by 2.3 percent while the shoes prices increased by 0.5 percent.

Prices for household facilities, articles and maintenance services went up by 2.5 percent year-on-year, of which, prices for durable consumer goods was up by 0.5 percent, and household services and processing, maintenance services, up by 11.4 percent.

Prices for health care and personal articles grew by 3.4 percent year-on-year. Of which, prices for western medicine went down by 0.5 percent; Chinese medicinal materials and patent medicine, up 12.4 percent; and health care services, up 0.6 percent.

Prices for transportation and communication rose by 0.9 percent year-on-year. Of which, prices for vehicles dropped by 1.0 percent; fuels and parts for vehicles, up 14.7 percent; vehicles use and maintenance, up 4.2 percent; transportation fares between cities, up 2.9 percent; public transport fares in cities, up 2.6 percent; and communication, down by 12.9 percent.

Prices for recreation, education, culture articles and services grew by 0.6 percent year-on-year. Of which, education went up by 1.6 percent; recreation and culture, up 1.9 percent; travelling, up 4.6 percent; and durable goods and services for recreation and culture, down by 6.4 percent.

Prices for housing went up by 6.2 percent year-on-year. Of which, prices for water, electricity and fuel rose by 4.1 percent; houses building and decorating materials, up 5.4 percent; and housing rental prices, up 5.9 percent.

According to estimation, in the 6.4 percent growth in June, the carryover effect of last year’s prices rising accounted for 3.7 percentage points, while new prices rising factors in this year accounted for 2.7 percentage points.

2. Month-on-Month Changes of Prices of Different Categories

In June, food prices rose by 0.9 percent month-on-month, contributing 0.28 percentage point to the month-on-month growth of consumer prices (In May, the month-on-month change of food prices was down by 0.3 percent, contributing 0.08 percentage point decline to the overall prices). Of which, prices for meat, poultry and related products grew by 6.3 percent, or 4.7 percentage points higher than that in May; pork, up 11.4 percent, or 8.8 percentage points higher; aquatic products, up 2.0 percent, or 1.5 percentage points higher; and fresh eggs, up 4.6 percent, or 0.5 percentage points lower. Prices growth of the above mentioned three items triggered 0.52 percentage point growth of the overall prices, in particular, that for pork resulted in 0.36 percentage point growth month-on-month.

In June, prices for fresh vegetables and fruits continued to drop month-on-month, the rate is 0.8 percent and 13.5 percent respectively. They caused 0.33 percentage point decline of the overall prices, which maintained the same as in May.

Non-food Prices showed no change of growth in June, which eased the rising of Consumer Prices (it grew by 0.2 percent month-on-month in May, causing 0.16 percentage point growth of the overall price level). Of this total, prices for tobacco and liquor, household facilities, articles and maintenance services and health care and personal articles rose by 0.2 percent, 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent respectively, while prices for clothing, transportation and communication and housing went down by 0.2 percent, 0.1 percent and 0.1 percent.

Consumer Prices in June
Item	June		January - June
	Month-on-Month(%)	Year-on-Year(%)	Year-on-Year(%)
Consumer Prices	0.3	6.4	5.4
Of which: Urban	0.2	6.2	5.2
Rural	0.4	7.0	5.9
Of which: Food	0.9	14.4	11.8
Non food	0.0	3.0	2.7
Of which: Consumer Goods	0.4	7.4	5.9
Services	0.0	4.0	4.1
Commodity Categories
Food	0.9	14.4	11.8
Tobacco, Liquor and Articles	0.2	2.7	2.3
Clothing	-0.2	2.1	1.0
Household Facilities, Articles and Maintenance Services	0.2	2.5	2.0
Health Care and Personal Articles	0.3	3.4	3.2
Transportation and Communication	-0.1	0.9	0.3
Recreation, Education, Culture Articles and Services	0.0	0.6	0.6
Housing	-0.1	6.2	6.3

Notes:

1. Statistical Coverage. Consumer Price Index (CPI) covers the prices of goods and services of eight categories and 262 basic divisions which cover the living consumption of urban and rural residents, including food; tobacco, liquor and articles; clothing; household facilities, articles and maintenance services; health care and personal articles; transportation and communication; recreation, education, culture articles and services and housing. Data are collected from 63,000 prices collection units in 500 cities and counties of the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), which cover grocery stores, department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, professional markets, franchise houses, shopping centers, open fairs and service consumption units etc.

2. Data Collection. Original data of consumer prices are collected by specific person in fixed place at fixed time.

3. Explanation of Indicator. Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an index measuring changes over time in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by residents, which reflects comprehensively changes of price level.

4. From January 2011, the CPI calculation in China began to take 2010 as the base year. It was the second routine adjustment since the adoption of fixed-base price index in 2001. The first round base year was 2000, as changing every five years, the second round base year was 2005.

5. In accordance with the data of national survey of urban and rural household consumption expenditure in 2010 and data of other surveys conducted by relevant departments, the National Bureau of Statistics made a routine adjustment of the weights of CPI from January 2011. By using the new weights, the consumer price index in June went up by 6.355 percent year-on-year, or 0.277 percent month-on-month, while it was up 6.531 percent year-on-year, or 0.289 percent month-on-month if the former weights were used.