BEIJING: China’s consumer inflation rate crept higher in December, official data showed over the weekend, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles with slower growth.

The consumer price index (CPI)—a main gauge of inflation—rose 1.6 percent last month from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement, in line with the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

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