China inflation shoots up 3.8 pct in Q1

BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 3.8 percent year on year in the first quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday.

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Slowdown but no hard landing in 2012, economists say

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Although forecasts for China's growth rate vary, analysts and economists agree that the world's second-largest economy will achieve a soft landing in 2012, with the prospect of further easing measures.