China's CPI further expands to 2.7 pct in May

A customer selects vegetables at a supermarket in Wuxi City, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 12, 2019. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.7 percent year on year in May, quickening from the 2.5-percent growth for April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Huan Yueliang)