China’s consumer prices went up slightly in June while producer prices continued to fall, official data show.

The country’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday that inflation in China was up 1.4 percent in June year-on-year, compared with an increase of 1.2 percent year-on-year in May.

Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician at the bureau, said in a statement accompanying the result that the quickening inflationary pace in June was due to a lower comparative base from last year. The rise in June was driven by a 1.9-percent rise in food costs, particularly for vegetables and pork, she added.

The statistics bureau also said the producer price index fell 4.8 percent year-on-year in June, quickening from a decline of 4.6 percent in May.