(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-07-19 10:23

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China's consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.4 percent in June compared with a year ago, Li Xiaochao, spokesman with the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Thursday. CPI in the first half of this year increased 3.2 percent year on year.