China's consumer inflation remained moderate in June, while factory-gate price growth accelerated for a fourth straight month, official data showed on Thursday.
China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.0 percent year-on-year in June, easing from a 1.2 percent increase in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Dong Lijuan, a statistician with the bureau, said consumer prices maintained moderate year-on-year growth in June.
Prices of industrial consumer goods rose 2.9 percent year-on-year, with the pace of growth easing by 1.0 percentage point from the previous month, contributing about 0.90 percentage points to the CPI increase, NBS data showed.
Service prices maintained steady growth in June, rising 0.8 percent year-on-year, unchanged from May, and contributing about 0.40 percentage points to the CPI increase, according to the NBS.
