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BEIJING (AP) - China's government hopes to hold inflation to 4.8 percent this year but could have trouble doing so after January snowstorms worsened food shortages, a planning official said.
Storms that wrecked crops and disrupted food shipments might keep inflation high in February, said Zhou Wenjun, an official of the cabinet's National Development and Reform Commission, quoted Friday on the Web site of state television.
Economists have raised 2008 inflation forecasts for China as high as 6.8 percent following the storms.
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