Consumer Price Index in August 2025

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In August 2025, China’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased by 0.4% year on year. Specifically, the price index in urban areas decreased by 0.3% while that in rural areas decreased by 0.6%; the price index for food decreased by 4.3% while that for non-food increased by 0.5%; that for consumer goods decreased by 1.0% while that for services increased by 0.6%. From January to August, on average, China’s CPI decreased by 0.1% compared with the same period of the previous year.

In August, China’s CPI remained flat month on month. Specifically, the price index in urban areas remained flat while that in rural areas increased by 0.1%; the price index for food increased by 0.5% while that for non-food decreased by 0.1%; the price index for consumer goods increased by 0.1% while that for services remained flat.

I. Year-on-Year Changes in Price Indexes for Various Goods and Services

In August, the price index for food, tobacco and liquor decreased by 2.5% year on year, pushing the CPI down by about 0.72 percentage points. Among food, the price index for fresh vegetables decreased by 15.2%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.37 percentage points; that for eggs decreased by 12.4%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.08 percentage points; that for meat of livestock decreased by 8.0%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.25 percentage points, of which the price index for pork decreased by 16.1%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.24 percentage points; that for fresh fruits decreased by 3.7%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.08 percentage points; that for grain decreased by 0.8%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.01 percentage points; that for aquatic products increased by 2.2%, pushing the CPI up by 0.04 percentage points.

Among price indexes for other seven major categories, six increased and one decreased year on year. Specifically, the price indexes for miscellaneous goods and services, clothing, and household facilities, articles and services increased by 8.6%, 1.8%, and 1.8%, respectively; the price indexes for education, culture and recreation, health care and medical services, and residence increased by 1.0%, 0.9%, and 0.1%, respectively; the price index for transportation and telecommunication decreased by 2.4%.

II. Month-on-Month Changes in Price Indexes for Various Goods and Services

In August, the price index for food, tobacco and liquor increased by 0.3% month on month, pushing the CPI up by about 0.09 percentage points. Among food, the price index for fresh vegetables increased by 8.5%, pushing the CPI up by about 0.16 percentage points; that for eggs increased by 1.5%, pushing the CPI up by about 0.01 percentage points; that for fresh fruits decreased by 2.8%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.06 percentage points; that for aquatic products decreased by 0.9%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.02 percentage points; the price index for pork decreased by 0.5%, pushing the CPI down by about 0.01 percentage points.

Among the price indexes for other seven major categories, one increased, two remained flat, and four decreased month on month. Specifically, the price index for health care and medical services increased by 0.3%; those for residence, and miscellaneous goods and services remained flat; the price index for transportation and telecommunication decreased by 0.3%, while those for clothing, household facilities, articles and services, and education, culture and recreation all decreased by 0.1%.

Consumer Price Indexes in August 2025

	Growth Rate M/M (%)	Growth Rate Y/Y (%)	Jan-Aug Growth Rate Y/Y (%)
Consumer Price Index	0.0	-0.4	-0.1
Of which: Urban	0.0	-0.3	0.0
Rural	0.1	-0.6	-0.3
Of which: Food	0.5	-4.3	-1.4
Non-food	-0.1	0.5	0.2
Of which: Consumer goods	0.1	-1.0	-0.5
Services	0.0	0.6	0.4
Of which: Excluding food and energy	0.0	0.9	0.5
By categories
I. Food, tobacco, and liquor	0.3	-2.5	-0.6
Grain	0.1	-0.8	-1.2
Edible oil and fats	0.0	-1.5	-1.9
Fresh vegetables	8.5	-15.2	-7.0
Meat of livestock	-0.1	-8.0	-1.9
Of which: Pork	-0.5	-16.1	-0.8
Beef	0.5	4.1	-4.3
Mutton	0.2	-0.7	-3.6
Aquatic products	-0.9	2.2	1.3
Eggs	1.5	-12.4	-4.9
Milk and other dairy products	-0.3	-1.6	-1.4
Fresh fruits	-2.8	-3.7	1.9
Cigarettes	0.0	0.0	0.2
Liquor	-0.2	-1.9	-2.0
II. Clothing	-0.1	1.8	1.4
Garments	-0.1	1.9	1.6
Footwear	-0.1	1.3	0.7
III. Residence	0.0	0.1	0.1
Rent of rental housing	0.0	-0.1	-0.1
Water, electricity and fuels	0.0	0.4	0.4
IV. Household facilities, articles and services	-0.1	1.8	0.4
Home appliances	1.1	4.6	0.1
Household services	0.0	1.6	2.1
V. Transportation and telecommunication	-0.3	-2.4	-2.9
Transport facility	0.0	-1.9	-3.3
Fuels for transport facility	-0.9	-7.1	-7.3
Use and maintenance of transport facility	0.0	0.3	0.2
Communication facilities	-0.1	0.8	0.7
Telecommunication services	0.0	0.0	0.0
Postal services	0.0	0.0	-0.1
VI. Education, culture and recreation	-0.1	1.0	0.8
Education services	0.0	1.2	1.2
Touring	-0.6	0.7	-0.3
VII. Health care and medical services	0.3	0.9	0.4
Traditional Chinese medicines	-0.3	-0.9	0.1
Western medicines	-0.1	-1.2	-1.2
Medical services	0.5	1.6	0.8
VIII. Miscellaneous goods and services	0.0	8.6	7.1

Annotations:

1. Index Interpretation

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a relative figure that measures variations in prices for consumer goods and services over time, which comprehensively reflects changes in prices for consumer goods and services purchased by residents.

2. Statistical Coverage

The statistical survey of the CPI covers the prices for eight major categories of consumer goods and services purchased by national urban and rural residents, including food, tobacco, and liquor, clothing, residence, household facilities, articles and services, transportation and telecommunication, education, culture and recreation, health care and medical services, and miscellaneous goods and services, as well as 268 basic categories.

3. Survey Methods

Survey sites are selected through sampling survey method. In accordance with the principle of “fixed person, fixed site, and fixed time”, statisticians are directly designated to the survey sites or collect the original prices from the Internet. The data comes from over 100,000 survey sites from about 500 cities and counties in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), covering shopping malls (stores), supermarkets, farmers’ (fresh produce) markets, service outlets, and Internet e-commerce.

4. Data Description

Due to rounding-off, the aggregated data may be equal to the high or low value of the classified data.