| 1. | China uses the retail price index as its main gauge of inflation.
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| 2. | The October retail price index will be published on Nov . 16.
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| 3. | In 1997, the newly elected Retail Prices Index was 4.8 % ).
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| 4. | In China, the CPI includes services and utilities, the retail price index doesn't.
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| 5. | It did not provide any basis for the retail price index.
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| 6. | In 1994, the average annual retail price index was 21 . 7 percent.
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| 7. | China's retail price index is the country's benchmark measure of inflation.
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| 8. | In 1994, the average annual retail price index was 21.7 percent.
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| 9. | The retail price index declined 1.5 percent for the first quarter.
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| 10. | The retail price index declined 1 . 5 percent for the first quarter.
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