Nov CPI ends nine-month decline

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased 0.6 percent year-on-year in November, ending nine months of decline, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.

The CPI figure declined 0.5 percent in the previous month and increased 2.4 percent in last November.

The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, dropped 2.1 percent year-on-year in November, according to the NBS.

The rate of decline was 3.7 percentage points lower than that in October.