![](http://i2.chinanews.com.cn/simg/hpic/2023/11-09/pic1-41844591.jpeg)
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, declined 0.2 percent in October on a yearly basis, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday.