On a monthly basis, August's CPI remained stable, reversing the 0.5-percent rise in July to edge down 0.1 percent, thanks to efforts to contain COVID-19 and extreme weather impacts, as well as efforts to ensure sufficient supply and stable prices.
Experts expect that China's consumer inflation will rise modestly and factory-gate inflation should trend down for the rest of the year, leaving room for further monetary easing in the coming months.
The growth in core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and is deemed as a better gauge of the supply-demand relationship in the economy, came in at 0.8 percent year-on-year in July, following a 1 percent rise the previous month.
Experts called on Monday for macroeconomic policy moves to help stabilize market expectations and alleviate businesses' burdens in order to help them cope with any possible shocks brought by the rising prices of raw materials and weakening domestic demand.
China's full-year inflation is likely to stay generally under control in 2022 with the government's effective measures to ensure stable supplies and prices of bulk commodities, experts said.