5月份，济南居民消费价格同比上涨0.3%

Core Viewpoint - In May, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Jinan experienced a year-on-year increase of 0.3% and a month-on-month decrease of 0.4%, with an average increase of 0.5% from January to May compared to the same period last year [1] Price Changes Year-on-Year - In May, Jinan's eight major categories of prices showed a trend of "three increases, one stable, and four decreases." Specifically, prices for other goods and services, education, culture, and entertainment rose by 9.4%, 6.1%, and 2.2% respectively, while medical care remained stable. Conversely, transportation and communication, housing, food and tobacco, and daily necessities saw declines of 4.6%, 0.6%, 0.4%, and 0.2% respectively [3] - Within food prices, fresh vegetable prices fell by 7.6%, egg prices by 6.6%, dairy prices by 4.7%, pork prices by 4.7%, poultry prices by 3.8%, cooking oil prices by 3.6%, and grain prices by 0.8%. Conversely, prices for tubers increased by 8.3%, fresh fruit by 6.9%, seafood by 1.3%, and beef by 0.1% [3] Price Changes Month-on-Month - In May, Jinan's eight major categories of prices exhibited a trend of "three increases and five decreases." Prices for other goods and services, clothing, and medical care increased by 1.4%, 0.2%, and 0.1% respectively. In contrast, prices for daily necessities, transportation and communication, food and tobacco, education, culture, and entertainment, and housing decreased by 1.3%, 1.2%, 0.7%, 0.2%, and 0.2% respectively [4] - Within food prices, fresh vegetable prices decreased by 12.2%, poultry prices by 2.3%, egg prices by 1.4%, dairy prices by 0.4%, and pork prices by 0.1%. On the other hand, beef prices rose by 3.1%, fresh fruit prices by 1.7%, cooking oil prices by 1.0%, tuber prices by 0.9%, seafood prices by 0.8%, and grain prices by 0.4% [4]