A customer shops at a supermarket in Zunhua, north China's Hebei Province, Aug. 9, 2023.(Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.1 percent in August compared with one year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Saturday.
On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.3 percent from the previous month.
The average CPI from January to August increased 0.5 percent year on year, according to the NBS.
