8月份，备受关注的中国消费者价格通胀指数同比上涨了2%，低于7月份录得的2.3%，也比经济学家预测的2.2%低。
China's headline consumer price inflation index rose 2 per cent in August from a year earlier. That was below the 2.3 per cent price increases recorded in July and less than the 2.2 per cent economists had forecast.
不过，这一备受关注的居民消费价格指数(CPI)的涨幅仍大大低于中国官方3.5%的通胀目标。这表明中国政府将维持相对宽松的货币政策立场。
This headline CPI is still much lower than the official target of 3.5 per cent, however, indicating the government will maintain its relatively loose monetary policy stance.
而8月份工业品出厂价格同比却下跌了1.2%，跌幅大于7月份的0.9%，也大于经济学家预计的1.1%。
However factory gate prices fell 1.2 per cent in August from a year earlier. That was more than the 0.9 per cent price fall recorded in July and more than the 1.1 per cent fall economists had forecast.
这是中国工业品出厂价格指数连续第30个月下滑。
It was the 30th consecutive month producer prices had declined.