BEIJING -- China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.3 percent year-on-year in April, official data showed Saturday.

On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.1 percent in April, reversing the 1-percent fall from the previous month, said the National Bureau of Statistics.

The core CPI, deducting food and energy prices, went up 0.7 percent year-on-year last month, expanding 0.1 percentage points from March, according to the NBS.