China's consumer prices stabilized in June as energy and commodities prices eased, official data showed on Thursday.
The consumer price index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, rose 1.0% year-on-year in June, edging lower from 1.2% in May, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
It fell slightly below a Bloomberg forecast of 1.1%.
However, last month's CPI was still well below the government's two percent target for the year.
"Factors such as imported international price pressures contributed to a slowdown in the rate of increase for domestic industrial consumer goods prices," according to Dong Lijuan, chief NBS statistician.
