China's main measure of consumer price inflation rose to 2 percent year-on-year in November, up from 1.7 per cent in October, dpa quoted the government as saying Sunday. Food prices, which account for about one-third of the index, rose 3 per cent in November from one year earlier, after a 1.8-per-cent rise in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Sunday. Vegetable prices jumped 11.3 per cent year-on-year in November as cold weather disrupted supplies. The producer price index, which tracks inflation in wholesale prices, fell by 2.2 per cent year-on-year after a drop of 2.8 per cent in September, according to the bureau. Growth in the world's second-largest economy dropped to 7.4 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter, the slowest rate for more than three years after full-year growth of 9.2 per cent last year.
