date:Apr 16, 2014
d 1.35 percentage points to March's CPI growth, according to NBS figures.
Prices of fruit, aquatic products, vegetables and grain went up year on year in March, with fruit prices surging 17.3 per cent and those of vegetables jumping 12.9 per cent.
Tang Jianwei, a researcher at the Bank of Communications, attributed the continued monthly CPI growth partly to the so-called carryover effect, as the prices a year earlier remained at a relatively low level.
Bucking the trend, prices of poultry and