China: monthly Consumer Price Index by region 2023

A regional breakdown of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in China reveals considerable variations across different regions. In April 2023, Shanghai municipality displayed a CPI of about 98.9 points, whereas the CPI in Xinjiang autonomous region reached 100.8 points.

Consumer price development in China

The Consumer Price Index measures the average changes over time in the price level of a market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by consumers. It is closely related to the inflation rate. The consumer inflation rate is derived from the annual percentage increase of the CPI. After 2011, China experienced a slight decrease in domestic inflation. Between 2014 and 2018, the annual inflation rate ranged at around two percent or lower. In 2019, inflation increased again to 2.9 percent and remained high during 2020, but is forcast to decrease in the coming years. Monthly inflation rates peaked at 5.4 percent in January 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but declined quickly in the following months and reached negative values in November 2020.

Regional and sectoral inflation rates

In recent years, inflation rates in the largest cities and developed regions often remained below those in developing regions in the inner provinces. The CPI in rural regions was on average slightly higher than in urban areas. The annual CPI of food, tobacco and liquor in China ranged among the highest during 2020 - mainly driven by rising pork and meat prices, whereas the transportation and communication’s CPI was one of the lowest. With the travel sector recovering from the coronavirus pandemic in the first half of 2021, monthly prices for transportation started to increase again.

Monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) in China in April 2023, by region

Characteristic	CPI (the same month last year = 100)
Xinjiang	100.8%
Gansu	100.7%
Guangdong	100.6%
Hubei	100.5%
Ningxia	100.4%
Hunan	100.4%
Yunnan	100.4%
Hebei	100.4%
Beijing	100.3%
Fujian	100.3%
Hainan	100.3%
Jiangxi	100.3%
Sichuan	100.3%
Tianjin	100.2%
Inner Mongolia	100.1%
Heilongjiang	100.1%
Shandong	100.1%
Shaanxi	100.1%
National average	100.1%
Chongqing	100%
Zhejiang	100%
Guangxi	100%
Qinghai	100%
Jiangsu	100%
Tibet	100%
Anhui	99.9%
Liaoning	99.9%
Henan	99.9%
Guizhou	99.8%
Shanxi	99.6%
Jilin	99%
Shanghai	98.9%

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May 2023

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China

Survey time period

as of April 2023

Supplementary notes

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the "Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an index measuring changes over time in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by residents, which comprehensively reflects the changes of price level. Consumer Price Index (CPI) covers the prices of goods and services of eight categories and 262 basic divisions which cover the living consumption of urban and rural residents, including food; tobacco, liquor and articles; clothing; household facilities, articles and maintenance services; health care and personal articles; transportation and communication; recreation, education, culture articles and services and residence. Data are collected from 63,000 price collection units in 500 cities and counties of the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), which cover grocery stores, department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, professional markets, franchise houses, shopping centers, open fairs and service consuming units etc."

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