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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Singapore Asia Pacific World Search Search: China consumer prices fall for 1st time in 6 years By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 11 SHANGHAI, China - China's consumer prices fell for the first time in more than six years in February, underscoring weakness in the world's third-largest economy. Officials downplayed the risk of a debilitating deflationary spiral, but said the economic outlook was still "grim." ADVERTISEMENT The consumer price index, China's main inflation benchmark, fell 1.6 percent from a year earlier, the National Statistics Bureau reported Tuesday. A 1.9 percent decline in food prices, a major component of the index, and declines in international commodity prices helped to drag the index down. So did excess inventories for many industries. While consumers might welcome falling prices, if it persists deflation can sap growth by cutting profits and increasing debt burdens, prompting companies to slash jobs, wages and investment. "Deflation is the symptom of a weak real economy and industrial overcapacity, which has left companies with little pricing power," Jing Ulrich, JP Morgan's chairwoman of China equities, said in a report Tuesday. But she said that China's deflationary trend was likely to be temporary and should reverse as the impact of government spending to stimulate demand takes hold. The CPI's first fall since December 2002 suggests China can afford to cut interest rates further to help spur economic growth without reigniting inflation. But analysts said technical factors were the main reason for the decline. Shortages of grain and pork pushed China's inflation to a 12-year peak of 8.7 percent in February, and that higher benchmark helped to exaggerate the year-later figure. The CPI rose 1 percent in January. The producer price index, another key price indicator, fell 4.5 percent in February, compared with a 3.3 percent decline in January. Declining prices for many global commodities are only now reaching consumers in the form of lower prices on the street, the statistics bureau said. The falls in both the CPI and the producer price index were "due to declining prices for basic commodities on international markets due to various factors and should not be interpreted as a sign of deflation," said a statement posted on its Web site. Although citydwellers rarely see evidence of falling prices on grocery shelves, some businesses say they are cutting prices. "We adjusted our prices downward by about 10 percent between December and February," said Zhai Zhi, a salesman at Synear Food Co., a maker of frozen dumplings and snacks based in central China's Henan province. Synear was cutting prices to match competitors and reflect lower costs, he said. Economists say China, with its huge underdeveloped rural hinterland, is unlikely to succumb to the kind of protracted price declines that stymied Japan's economy in the 1990s. A slump in demand for China's exports has left companies in many industries with excess inventories left to be sold, adding to the downward pressure on prices. But signs of stabilizing export orders suggest that process may be winding down, some economists say. "China's situation is totally different," said Andy Xie, an independent economist based in Shanghai. "This is temporary. Inventories are being discounted. Once the inventories are sold prices will begin to rise again," Xie said. Still, China faces other pitfalls. "It's fair to say in coming months we will see quite a grim picture," Commerce Minister Chen Deming told a news conference in Beijing. Chen said trade figures for February, which he did not disclose, would show declines. Power consumption, a key indicator of economic activity, fell by 3.7 percent in January and February from the same period last year, while nonferrous metals output fell 9.5 percent, said Li Yizhong, China's industry minister. "We should not be overly optimistic. China's industry is still in its most difficult situation," Li said. "The international financial crisis has not bottomed out and it is having a more and more profound impact on China's economy." A China central bank official signaled Monday that authorities may be planning fresh measures to revive growth. "We still have plenty of space for monetary policy maneuvers," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Su Ning, a vice governor of the People's Bank of China, as saying. Although there is room for only small adjustments in interest rates, China has wider leeway to cut bank reserve requirements, Su said. ___ AP Business Writer Joe McDonald and Associated Press researcher Bonnie Cao in Beijing contributed to this report. 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