介绍:
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, climbed to 2 percent in August, the highest level seen in 2015.
The figure beat market expectations.
On a monthly basis, The National Bureau of Statistics says CPI rose half a percent last month.
NBS has attributed the pick-up to higher prices for food, including vegetables and pork.
But with the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and China's National Day holiday, experts expect consumer prices to fluctuate, as pork prices have recently dropped.
Chen Daofu is with Financial Research Institute, Development Research Center of the State Council.
"With the pullback of pork prices, the rise of CPI lacks strong impetus."
The government aims to keep consumer inflation at around 3 percent for this year.
NBS data also shows the producer price index, which measures wholesale inflation, slid 5.9 percent year on year in August.
NBS attributes the PPI contraction mainly to dropping prices of industrial products and decreasing costs for oil and natural gas production.
Zhang Liqun, a researcher with Macro Economic Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, analyzes the current wholesale situation.
"Continuous declining of industrial products prices is a reflection of insufficient market demand, which in reverse, restrains factory output."
The August reading dipped to its lowest level since the end of 2009 and marked the 42nd-straight month of decline.
Huatai Securities predicts the fall of PPI to narrow in September thanks to a slowdown in the decline of commodity prices.
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