BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) - China's Premier Wen Jiabao said he expected inflation, already trending downwards, to keep falling for the remainder of the year, according to official news agency Xinhua.
Consumer price inflation, which hit a 12-year high of 8.7 perent in February, fell to 4.6 percent in September. Wen told Russian news agency Itar-Tass that he expected it would decline further over the next three months, according to a Chinese transcript of the interview posted on the Xinhua website on Wednesday. (Reporting by Simon Rabinovitch)