China CPI inflation (year-on-year, 居民消费价格指数)
China CPI inflation (year-on-year, 居民消费价格指数) is 0.5 percent, in force since 1 Jul 2026. It was 1 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 11 Sep 2026.
Headline national Consumer Price Index, year-on-year percent change, latest published month, from the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局). Released monthly, usually around the 9th of the following month.
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| Current value | 0.5 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| In force until | 2026-07-31 |
| Official source | 国家统计局 — 《2026年7月份居民消费价格同比上涨0.5%》（2026/08/09 09:30）：「2026年7月份，全国居民消费价格同比上涨0.5%。……7月份，全国居民消费价格环比下降0.1%。」 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-11 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
SERVED VALUE is the headline national YoY percent: +0.5% for July 2026. The same official NBS release (HTTP 200, fetched 2026-08-28) printed MoM −0.1%. Also on that page: urban +0.5% YoY / −0.1% MoM; rural +0.4% YoY / −0.2% MoM; food −1.5% YoY (flat MoM); non-food +0.9% YoY / −0.1% MoM; consumer goods +0.2% YoY / −0.6% MoM; services +0.7% YoY / +0.4% MoM; core CPI excluding food and energy +0.9% YoY / +0.3% MoM; January–July average +0.9% YoY. effective_from is the first day of the NBS reference month (July 2026); NBS does not state a separate legal effective date. BASE ROTATION (NBS footnote on the same page): from January 2026 CPI is compiled with 2025 as the base period; NBS says the rotation adds about 0.06 percentage points on average to monthly YoY readings.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 1 | 国家统计局 — 《2026年6月份居民消费价格同比上涨1.0%》（2026/07/09… |
Get it programmatically
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# History: curl https://asiaref.dev/v1/cn/cpi/history?from=2020-01-01
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