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Shoppers buy fruit at a supermarket in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. (Photo by Jia Minjie/For China Daily)
China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, was down 0.3 percent in July year-on-year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Wednesday.