A customer selects meat at a market in Beijing, capital of China, July 10, 2019. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.7 percent year on year in June, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. For the first half of this year, CPI increased 2.2 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the NBS. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)