First, food inflation, which accounts for about half the recent run-up in overall prices, has been addressed by administrative measures aimed at cutting fertilizer costs and removing bottlenecks to increased supplies of pork, cooking oil, and vegetables. Second, in an effort to curtail excess bank lending, reserve ratios were increased nine times in the past 11 months.
إن التضخم يشكل دوماً خطراً جدياً في الصين ـ وخاصة في ظل الزيادات الكبيرة في مؤشر أسعار المستهلك والتي اقتربت من عتبة الـ6% هذا الصيف. ولقد استجابت الحكومة بقوة على أربع جبهات.