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China's PPI up 1.7% in December 2009

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-21 11:20
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The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 1.7 percent in December from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.

It was the first monthly rise since December 2008. The full year figure was down 5.4 percent, it said.