China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, rose 4 percent in October from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.

The figure, compared with 4.6 percent in September, 4.9 percent in August, 6.3 percent in July, 7.1 percent in June, and a nearly 12-year-high of 8.7 percent in February, was broadly in line with most forecasts.

(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2008)