A worker walks in a workshop of Dongbei Special Steel Group Co., Ltd in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 6, 2012. China's producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, fell 2.2 percent year on year in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Sunday. This marks the ninth straight month of decline after the PPI dropped in March for the first time since December 2009. (Xinhua/Liu Debin) |