date:Apr 17, 2014
said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Food prices account for nearly one-third of the weighting in the calculation of China's CPI. They gained 4.1 per cent from a year earlier and contributed 1.35 percentage points to March's CPI growth, according to NBS figures.
Prices of fruit, aquatic products, vegetables and grain went up year on year in March, with fruit prices surging 17.3 per cent and those of vegetables jumping 12.9 per cent.
Tang Jianwei