China's consumer price index (CPI) rose by 6.5 percent in August on food price hikes, the biggest monthly rise this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday.

The accumulative increase of the main gauge of inflation reached 3.9 percent in the first eight months.

Food prices jumped by 18.2 percent in August, followed by consumer goods, which jumped by 8.0 percent. Meanwhile, the prices of non-food products rose 0.9 percent, said the bureau.
 
Grain prices went up by 6.4 percent, cooking oil prices 34.6 percent, meat and poultry 49.0 percent, eggs 23.6 percent, aquatic products 6.2 percent, and fresh vegetables 22.5 percent, but fresh fruit prices dipped by 3.3 percent, said the bureau.

The CPI increased 5.6 percent in July, 4.4 percent in June and 3.5 percent year on year in the first seven months of this year, according to the NBS..