China's inflation remains stable at 2.7 pct in June

Customers select food at a supermarket in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, July 10, 2019. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.7 percent year on year in June, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. For the first half of this year, CPI increased 2.2 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the NBS. (Photo by Yang Yang/Xinhua)