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9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Nancun, economist, Analysis and Forecasting Division, Price Monitoring Center, National Development and Reform Commission:
"Rising global metal prices have pushed up factory-gate prices in some industries. Prices for products from sectors such as non-ferrous metal mining and beneficiation, as well as non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing, continued to rise year on year."

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China saw continued improvement in factory-gate prices last month, with the decline in its producer price index (PPI) continuing to narrow, according to official data on Monday.

The PPI, which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, went down 0.9 percent year on year in February. This decrease narrowed from a 1.4-percent decline registered in the previous month, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

"Rising global metal prices have pushed up factory-gate prices in some industries. Prices for products from sectors such as non-ferrous metal mining and beneficiation, as well as non-ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing, continued to rise year on year," said Liu Nancun, economist at Analysis and Forecasting Division at Price Monitoring Center under National Development and Reform Commission.

On a monthly basis, the PPI rose 0.4 percent in February, maintaining the same rate of increase recorded in January, the data revealed.

NBS statistician Dong Lijuan attributed the month-on-month PPI rise and the narrowing decline in the index year on year to factors including the upward trend of international commodity prices, the rapid growth of demand in some domestic industries, and the effectiveness of macro policies.

China's PPI has increased on a monthly basis for five consecutive months, Dong said, noting that this trend has been fueled, in particular in February, by the upward trend of international non-ferrous metal and crude oil prices that drove up prices of related domestic industries, and the growth of computing power which also increased demand in some industries and resulted in corresponding price increases.

Monday's data further showed that China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 1.3 percent year on year in February. On a month-on-month basis, the CPI increased by 1 percent last month.