China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 0.5 percent year on year in January, according to the National Bureau of Statistics on Sunday.

China's producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, went down 2.3 percent year on year in January.

(Cover: Consumers buy groceries in a supermarket in Yongzhou City, central China's Hunan Province, January 30, 2025. /VCG)