China's CPI up 1.7 pct in January

Citizens select pork at a market in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 15, 2019. Consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.7 percent year on year in January, compared with 1.9-percent growth in December, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. (Xinhua/Yu Shaoyue)