CHINA
HIGH EARNERS
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LOW EARNERS
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WHERE THEY
TEND TO LIVE
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-The average income in China's east has been 2.26
times that of the west and it saw a three times difference between the
highest and the lowest.
-In 2005, disposable income of west urban
people was 66.7% of that of east, while in 2004 this rate is 69.7%.
-In 2005, disposable income of west rural people
was 44.2% of that of east, while in 2004 this rate is 48%.
-In 2005, total regional economic growth rate
in the west reached 12%.
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WHAT KIND OF
INDUSTRY
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MANFACTURING
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STATISTICS
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-Distribution of family income – GINI INDEX
- 48 (2009) – 41.5 (2007)
-During 2001 to 2003, Chinese economy
increased by 10% every year; but the real income of the 10% poorest people
decreased by 2.4%. China’s gini coefficient has reached 0.45.(world bank)
-The income of top 20% people is eighteen times
of that of the lowest 20% people. (Chinese Academy of Social Science)
-According to UN’s poverty standard (1 dollar
consumption per person a day), there are still 200,000,000 poor people in
China, the second largest number in the world, just a little smaller than
India.
-In 2006, salaried persons contributed 60% of
the whole tax income, while the rich contributed only 10%.
-Ministry of Finance -
the assets of China's wealthiest 10 percent families make up 45 percent of
the total wealth of urban residents.
-By comparison, 10
percent the families with the lowest income account for only 1.4 percent of
the total income of the families in the whole country.
-The incomes of those
wealthiest families were 8.9 times higher than those poorest families in
urban areas. In the rural areas the gap was even larger at 6.7 times.
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