Changzhou’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2 percent last month from a year ago, down 0.2 percent from May, data with the Changzhou Statistics Bureau showed recently.

Food, tobacco and alcohol prices, the largest component of the CPI, rose 10 percent year on year, the data showed. Among them, pork prices jumped 74.4 percent, while the prices of mutton, beef, chicken and duck increased by 15.6%-39.4%. The prices of freshwater fish, vegetables and grain increased by 24.5%, 12.3% and 6.7% respectively. Egg prices continued to fall by 14%, affecting a 0.04 percentage point decrease in CPI.

Other goods and services rose 5.6 percent; daily necessities and services up 1.6 percent; medical and healthcare rose 0.2 percent; housing costs added 0.1 percent; transportation and communications fell 5.7 percent; clothing down 2.2 percent; and education and entertainment dropped 0.5 percent.