Beijing, November 28. According to UPI, "Galloping inflation is rising the fastest in central and western China, with prices in the industrial city of Chongqing soaring 38.2 percent in October, the official media said Monday. 'Since the second half of this year, price rises have been obviously higher in the central and western parts of China', the Economic Daily said. Massive price rises are the greatest headache of China's ruling Communist Party which has squeezed credit and clamped down on new building projects in an effort to control inflation. But the growth of inflation in western and central China indicates control in these areas is weakening and provincial governments are paying little but lip service to the bosses in Beijing. 'The higher prices are mainly due to weak macro control and lack of effective means of control', the newspaper said. Chongqing, in southwestern Sichuan province, registered China's biggest price rise for October, with inflation 38.2 percent higher than a year earlier. Eight othe

r western and central cities, including Inner Mongolia's Hohot, Xinjiang's Urumqi and Shaanxi's Xian, also registered rises above 30 percent last month. China's national inflation rate was 27.7 percent in October, with its 35 major cities having an average of 24.8 percent inflation. (EuroTibet News N·6)