2025年12月通胀数据点评：物价稳步回升、政策仍有空间

Report Title - "2025 December Inflation Data Review: Steady Price Recovery and Policy Room" [1] Report Date - January 9, 2026 [1] Report Industry Investment Rating - Not provided in the report Core Viewpoints - Nominal GDP growth rate may be an important indicator for interest rate cuts [1][3] - Demand - side policies still have room to play in 2026, and monetary policy may be the focus of incremental policies [3] - It is expected that there may be two 10BP policy interest rate cuts in monetary policy this year [3] Summary by Content Inflation Data in December 2025 - CPI year - on - year increase widened to 0.8%, food prices rose 1.1%, non - food prices rose 0.8%, consumer goods prices rose 1.0%, and service prices rose 0.6% [3] - Among the eight categories of prices, the year - on - year increases of food, tobacco and alcohol, household goods and services, education, culture and entertainment, healthcare, and other goods and services expanded compared with November; the year - on - year increases of clothing, housing, and transportation and communication shrank (or the year - on - year declines expanded) [3] - PPI monthly increase widened and year - on - year decline narrowed, indicating that the recovery of upstream prices was transmitted to downstream as policies to expand domestic demand and promote consumption continued to show effects [3] - Core CPI continued to stabilize and recover, with a year - on - year increase of 1.2%, and the increase was basically the same as the previous month [3] - Food price year - on - year increase expanded to 1.1%, higher than the increase of edible agricultural product prices, and there may be room for further expansion [3] - Rent CPI monthly decline narrowed, and year - on - year decline slightly expanded, reflecting that the supply and demand of urban housing may still be in a balanced state [3] Monetary Policy Outlook - The Central Economic Work Conference in 2025 required that promoting stable economic growth and reasonable price recovery be important considerations for monetary policy, and flexibly and efficiently use various policy tools such as reserve requirement ratio cuts and interest rate cuts to maintain sufficient liquidity [3] - Considering the requirements of stable economic growth and reasonable price recovery, nominal GDP growth rate may become an important reference for monetary policy [3] - In 2025, China's GDP had ideal real growth in the first half of the year and good price recovery in the second half, but the two did not show a trend of strengthening simultaneously. So, demand - side policies still have room to play in 2026, and monetary policy may be the focus of incremental policies [3] - It is expected that there may be two 10BP policy interest rate cuts in monetary policy this year. If the Q4 2025 economic data shows that the nominal GDP year - on - year growth rate is stronger than 3.7% in Q3, the interest rate cut may be later; if it is lower than 3.7%, an interest rate cut in the near future cannot be ruled out [3]