CHINA 2007 DEC. CPI TO DOWN TO 6.1%

AsiaInfo Services, January, 2008

AsiaInfo Services 01-09-2008 China 2007 Dec. CPI to down to 6.1% BEIJING, Jan 09, 2008 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- China's consumer price index in December 2007 is expected to go down to around 6.1% and the foreign trade surplus is to stay at a high level. The foreign trade surplus in the last month of 2007 is predicted at about USD 26 billion.

And the export growth is to reach 27.6% year over year, jumping 4.8 percentage points from the previous month. It is the second consecutive year that the export rises at such a high speed, said Li Huiyong, a senior analyst at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co., Ltd. The economic data for the full year 2007 and December 2007 will be released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 25, 2008. The CPI in November 2007...

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