Improvement in Peoples Material and Culture Life

Item Unit 1995 1996 1997
Employment        
Dependents per rural laborer person 1.56 1.55 1.56
Dependents per urban employee person 1.73 1.73 1.74
Urban unemployment rate % 2.9 3 3.1
Income of rural and urban residents        
Annual per capita net income of farmers yuan 1577.7 1926 2090.1
Index of annual per capita net income of farmers % 375.4 409.2 437.4
Annual per capita income available for living of urban households yuan 3893 4377 5160.3
Index of annual per capita income available for living of urban households % 287.2 296.7 311.9
Annual average wage of staff and workers yuan 5500 6210 6470
Annual per capita consumption        
Per capita consumption of all residents yuan 2186 2675 2936
Agriculture residents yuan 1395 1718 1930
Nonagriculture residents yuan 4790 5736 6048
Savings        
Savings deposit balance of rural and urban residents billion yuan 2966.2 38521 46280
Per capita saving deposit balance yuan 2461.9 3163.8 3743.5
Per capita living floor space        
Rural areas sq. m 21 21.7 22.5
Urban areas sq. m 8 8.4 8.8
Urban public services        
Rate of household gas use % 68.4 73.2 75.7
Green area per 1,000 persons ha   52 35
Culture        
Color TV sets per 100 urban households   89.8 93.5 100.5
TV sets per 100 rural households   80.7 88 92.4
Newspapers, 100 persons per day   4.21 4.07 4.3
Books and magazines per person per day   7.15 7.82 7.77
Public health        
Hospital beds per 10,000 persons   23.4 23.4 23.5
Doctors per 10,000 persons   15.8 15.9 16.1


Last Updated on 10/23/98
By China Data Center