下阶段物价走势如何？国家统计局回应

Group 1 - The core viewpoint is that recent policies aimed at expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption are showing positive effects, leading to improvements in market supply and demand relationships and some positive price changes [1][2] - In July, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.4% month-on-month, reversing a previous decline of 0.1%, with industrial consumer goods prices rising by 0.5%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the previous month [1] - The Producer Price Index (PPI) decreased by 0.2% month-on-month in July, but the decline was narrowed by 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous month, marking the first contraction in the rate of decline since March [1] Group 2 - The prices of coal, steel, cement, photovoltaic products, and lithium battery manufacturing saw a reduction in month-on-month decline rates by 0.1 to 1.9 percentage points, contributing to a decrease in the downward pressure on PPI by 0.14 percentage points compared to the previous month [1] - Despite external uncertainties and competitive pressures in some domestic industries, the foundation for reasonable price recovery is being strengthened by more proactive macro policies and ongoing actions to boost consumption [2]