China's consumer prices stabilized in June as energy and commodities prices cooled, official data showed on June 9.
The consumer price index (CPI) rose last month 1 percent year-on-year, edging lower from 1.2 percent in May, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
It fell slightly below a Bloomberg forecast of 1.1 percent.
However, last month's CPI was still well below the government's 2 percent target for the year.
"Factors such as imported international price pressures contributed to a slowdown in the rate of increase for domestic industrial consumer goods prices," according to Dong Lijuan, chief NBS statistician.
The growth rates of prices for gold jewellery and gasoline also eased, Dong added.
The uptick in Chinese inflation caused by the Iran war "continued to unwind in June, amid lower prices for oil and many other commodities," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics.
"The latest escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions could deliver some renewed upward pressure on inflation in the near-term," Evans-Pritchard wrote in a note.
Evans-Pritchard added that the impact of an escalation of U.S.-Iran tensions will "remain limited to a few narrow areas and inflation still looks set to return near zero once energy supply normalises."
