Photo taken on Feb. 1, 2023 shows a freight ship loading thermal coal at Huanghua Port in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. As a major port for the country's coal transportation, Huanghua Port saw its annual coal throughput reach 205.16 million tonnes in 2022. [Photo/VCG]

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2% year on year in 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on January 12, 2023.

In December 2022, China's CPI rose 1.8% year on year, up from 1.6% in November.