In the first half of this year, under the background of pressure increase of internal and external inflation, Beijing CPI rose by 6.1% year-on-year, with growth rate increasing by 5.3 percentage points.
Yu Xiuqin, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and spokeswoman, food price rose by 19.8% in the first half of this year, pushing total CPI to increase by 5.8 percentage points, and non-food price, consumer price and service items price increased by 0.4%, 7.9% and 1.5% respectively.