# China's May inflation expected to rise as food price decline narrows - Chinadaily.com.cn

> China's May consumer price index is forecast to rise to 1.5% year on year, from 1.2% in April, as the decline in food prices narrows. Vegetable, egg and pork prices fell during May on ample supply and weak demand.

- Date: 2017-06-08 · published 2017-06-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: macro · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70488-china-s-may-inflation-expected-to-rise-as-food-price-decline-narrows-chinadaily
- Commodities: [Lean Hogs](https://feedsoft.ai/c/HOGS.md)

## Why it matters

Weak Chinese pork and egg prices point to soft domestic demand for meat and feed, a mildly bearish signal for hog prices and feed demand.

## Read by commodity

- HOGS: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HOGS | 2026-03-04 | [China pork market: production up, imports down \| AHDB](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20147-china-pork-market-production-up-imports-down-ahdb.md) | +0.8% | -2.6% |
| HOGS | 2020-04-07 | [Coronavirus Sends Crop and Livestock Prices into a Tailspin \| Farm Bureau Intel Markets \| American Farm Bureau Federation](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5743-coronavirus-sends-crop-and-livestock-prices-into-a-tailspin-farm-bureau-intel.md) | -1.8% | +35.8% |
| HOGS | 2023-09-28 | [China’s ailing pork demand another sign of economic distress \| FMT](https://feedsoft.ai/events/34095-china-s-ailing-pork-demand-another-sign-of-economic-distress-fmt.md) | -2.5% | -13.6% |
| HOGS | 2020-04-21 | [COVID-19 infects nearly all commodity prices \| Capital Press](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6503-covid-19-infects-nearly-all-commodity-prices-capital-press.md) | +22.7% | +39.4% |
| HOGS | 2020-07-31 | [COVID-19 Disruptions in the U.S. Meat Supply Chain
        
        
        
        - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52237-covid-19-disruptions-in-the-u-s-meat-supply-chain-federal-reserve-bank-of.md) | -1.7% | +6.3% |

## Sources

- chinadaily.com.cn: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201706/08/WS59bbe997a310ded8ac18c30d.html

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