A textile company resumes work in Zaozhuang, East China's Shandong province, on Feb 20, 2020. [Photo/sipaphoto.com]
BEIJING - China's producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 2.1 percent year-on-year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.
The decline slightly widened from the 2-percent drop in August.