China's Producer Price Index (PPI) grew 6.4 percent year on year in June, China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday.

In the first half of this year, the producer prices for manufactured goods went up by 6.0 percent year-on-year; the month-on-month change in June was down by 0.3 percent. In the first half of the year, the year-on-year growth of purchasing prices for raw materials, fuels and power was 10.8 percent.