英语文摘:China's CPI rises 1.5% in January

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.5 percent year on year in January 2010, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday.

Food prices went up 3.7 percent last month year on year, with non-food prices edging up 0.5 percent from a year earlier.

The figure advanced 0.6 percent in November 2009, ending nine months of decline.