Urban-rural income gap widest since opening-up, By Fu Jing, March 2, 2010, China Daily: “China recorded its widest rural-urban income gap last year since the country launched its reform and opening-up policy in 1978. Think tank researchers warned the gap will continue to widen in the coming years if effective measures to narrow the difference are not implemented soon. The urban per capita net income stood at 17,175 yuan ($2,525) last year, in contrast to 5,153 yuan in the countryside, with the urban-to-rural income ratio being 3.33:1, according to the latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics…”
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Poverty Measurement – China
Country’s poverty line misleading, expert says, By Wang Zhuoqiong, December 29, 2009, China Daily: “The number of people in China defined as poor would at least triple if not for the country’s decades-old poverty line, a top agriculture expert said. ‘The poverty line in China has not been changed for 20 years in step with the pace of economic development,’ said Li Xiaoyun, dean of the Center of Integrated Agricultural Development of China Agricultural University. China’s poverty line of 1,196 yuan ($175) per capita net income a year is said to be too low compared with the country’s economic development and living standard…”