Since the start of 2025, Zhongshan's consumer market has maintained stable supply and demand dynamics. In the first half of the year, the city's consumer price index (CPI) remained flat overall, with its growth rate contracting by 0.1 percentage points compared to the first quarter.

Food prices rose 1.4% year-on-year, contrasting with a 0.4% dip in non-food prices. Consumer goods saw marginal inflation at 0.3%, while service sector prices contracted 0.6%. Core CPI (excluding volatile food and energy components) registered zero growth for the period.

By category, other goods and services surged 5.0%, while clothing prices climbed 3.4%. Food, tobacco and alcohol rose 1.1%, household items and services edged up 1.0%, and healthcare costs saw minimal 0.1% growth.

Transportation and communication costs plunged 4.1%, while education, culture and entertainment prices dipped 0.8% and housing prices edged down 0.5%.

In the first half of the year, food prices saw a cumulative increase of 1.4%, which accounted for a 0.25 percentage point rise in the overall CPI.

Driven primarily by declines in energy and automotive product prices, Zhongshan's industrial product prices registered a cumulative decrease of 0.6% in the first half, with the year-on-year contraction widening by 0.5 percentage points from the same period in 2024. Specifically, gasoline and diesel prices declined by 7.1% and 7.6% respectively, while liquefied petroleum gas prices saw a 3.3% reduction.

Service prices registered a cumulative decrease of 0.6% in the first half. Specifically, travel agency service fees declined by 8.4%, airfares dropped 13.3%, and long-distance bus fares saw a 13.9% reduction.