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Comment (BEIJING (AFP) - - China's inflation rate rose to 8.5 percent in April, staying near 12-year highs, the government said Monday, warning tougher measures were needed to handle the nation's most intractable economic problem.
The figure, released by the National Bureau of Statistics, marked a reacceleration after the consumer price index weakened to 8.3 percent growth in March from 8.7 percent in February.
"Growth in consumer prices remains high," the statistics bureau said in a press release.
"At the moment, we must pay close attention to future price trends and prioritise the control of price increases and inflation even higher."
China's recent bout of inflation has been triggered mainly by soaring food prices, and data from the statistics bureau data showed this remained the case last month.
Overall food prices increased by 22.1 percent in April from a year earlier, while pork, the favourite meat for the vast majority of Chinese, became 68.3 percent more e...
