China's inflation rises 1.9 pct in September

China's Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 1.9 percent year on year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday.

The inflation eased from 2 percent registered in August.

On a month-on-month basis, September's CPI grew 0.3 percent from the previous month, according to the data released by the NBS.

Food prices, which account for nearly one-third of the weighting in the calculation of China's CPI, rose 2.5 percent last month from one year earlier, which was down from the 3.4-percent increase in August.