The inflation rate in China is still the country’s main economic worry. But don’t expect much in the way of monetary policy from China to curb inflation, according to a report by Thomson Reuters.

Although inflation is skirting a 12-year high, it has been in the mid-8 percent range for a few months, and Beijing thinks salvation may be at hand with food prices on the wane.

The recent devastating earthquake in China will push record food prices in the country even higher. However, experts say the earthquake will not slow economic growth.

“There will be less supply of pork, less supply of rice,” said Sun Mingchun, a Hong Kong-based economist at Lehman Brothers Holdings, speaking to Bloomberg. “It’s not causing supply to decline drastically but it is definitely less. The impact on inflation is more than its impact on growth.”