Coupled with all of this is a suspicion that official statistics may currently understate consumer price inflation owing to problems with the basket of goods used to measure prices, opening the way for possible upward revisions in the future.

• 综合一切因素，外界普遍怀疑官方低估了由篮子商品衡量价格所导致的通货膨胀指数，未来极有可能将通货膨胀指数向上修正。