A customer buys vegetables at a supermarket in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 11, 2021. (Photo by Sun Zhongnan/Xinhua)

BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 0.4 percent year on year in March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday. ■