On a month-on-month basis, no factory-gate price growth or decline was registered in March

The growth in core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is deemed a better gauge of the supply-demand relationship in the economy, rose by 0.7 percent year-on-year in March, up from a rise of 0.6 percent in February.Dong Lijuan, an NBS statistician, said the consumer inflation eas