OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2011. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.9 percent year on year in February 2011, the National Bureau of Statistics announced.

The increase was the same as January.

China's producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 7.2 percent in February from a year earlier.

China's industrial value-added output grew 14.1 percent in the first two months of this year.

The fixed asset investment in China rose 24.9 percent in the first two months of this year.

China's retail sales rose 15.8 percent year on year to 2901.8 billion yuan (441.67 billion U.S. dollars) in the first two months of this year.