China's consumer prices see mild uptick, factory inflation narrows (2)

A customer buys vegetables at a supermarket in Linquan County, east China's Anhui Province, May 11, 2022. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.1 percent year on year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. (Photo by Lu Qijian/Xinhua)