Why is China getting richer?

The wealth owned by the rich in China has soared 70 times in the past six years, which fully shows that the rich in China are getting richer and richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor in China is getting wider and wider. This also reminds the China government that in the face of the increasingly serious contradiction between the rich and the poor, it is urgent to carry out drastic reforms in the political system of income distribution.

In the past 30 years, China's gross domestic product (GDP) has doubled every seven years. Especially after surpassing Italy in 2005, the pace of economic leap has never stopped: in 2006, it surpassed Britain; In 2007, it surpassed Germany; 20 1 1 year, surpassing Japan; In the near future, it will surpass the United States and become the largest economy in the world. Besides GDP, China has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world, reaching 3.2 trillion US dollars, accounting for 1/3 of the global total.

20 1 1 year, the total wealth of the rich in China is more than 70 times that of 2005. According to the Korean Chosun Ilbo, according to the end of 20 10, there are 960,000 multi-millionaires and 60,000 billionaires in China. In 20 10, the average expenditure of multi-millionaires in China was as high as10.9 million yuan. Known as "Rolls-Royce at Sea", St Patrick of England sold about 20 yachts in China in 20 10 and 2010. The unit price of this luxury yacht is 654.38+000 billion won.

After the European and American economies got into trouble, China became the redeemer of European and American luxury cars. A Rolls-Royce with a basic overseas price of $245,000 and a price of more than RMB 5 million in China has surpassed the United States in annual sales of 201/kloc-0, and China has become the largest market for Rolls-Royce in the world.

The British "Daily Mail" reported before the Spring Festival that "luxury stores are preparing to receive' Beijing Pound'". With the arrival of the Year of the Loong, shops are preparing to collect thousands of wealth from shoppers in the far east. According to a report released by the World Luxury Association and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, it is estimated that China people will spend $5.7 billion overseas during Christmas and Spring Festival, a record high.

20 10 "The Rise of China" ranks third among the top ten news hot words in the United States. According to the latest year-end inventory of American think tank 20 1 1, the rising trend of China remains unchanged, but it has been labeled as "rich". Under the background of weak American recovery and European occupation crisis, China has become the most striking "big money". "Abundant cash", "the second richest man in the world" and "the rise of the middle class" ... The French magazine Kanban even said that the country with the most say at the G20 summit in 20 12 would be China, for the simple reason that China is rich.

The total net worth of China's richest people has soared 70 times in six years. What is the income growth of ordinary people in these six years? According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the per capita net income of rural residents in 2005 was 3,255 yuan, and in 2065 it was 6,977 yuan, 438+065,438+0, which was 2. 14 times that of 2005. In 2005, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 10493 RMB, 20 1 1 year was 218/0 yuan RMB, and 20 1 1 year was 2.

Statistics show that the income of urban and rural residents has only increased by about 2 times in 6 years. Excluding the factors of rising prices, the income growth is negligible. Statistics show the average income level of urban and rural residents in China, that is to say, the income level of many ordinary people has been raised by excessive income earners on average, and not many people have really reached the average income line.

According to the data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as of September 20 1 1, there were 22.824 million urban residents, 52.372 million rural residents, 5.532 million rural residents and 6.233 million national special care recipients. These four types of state guarantees cover nearly 90 million people, plus more than 9 million unemployed people in cities and towns, and the number of low-income groups reaches nearly 1 100 million, accounting for nearly 8% of the national population. This is the official statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

In other words, nearly 1 100 million people in China live on the minimum living guarantee provided by the government. In addition, there are a large number of forgotten groups in China. They have no job, no stable income and even no minimum living guarantee. The rich on China's pyramids account for less than 5% of the total population, and their wealth exceeds the first-class rich in Europe, America and even Asia. They may have emigrated or are emigrating, and they are robbing China's economy. Only 10% of the so-called white-collar workers or business owners can be regarded as the middle class in China or the main consumer in China today. The rest belong to the so-called sandwich layer and live a well-off life in name. Once they encounter serious illness or natural or man-made disasters, they will become low-income groups below the poverty line at any time in the face of soaring prices, housing prices and education and medical expenses.

Gini coefficient is an important index to judge the fairness of income distribution, and it is between 0 and 1. Internationally, 0.4 is generally regarded as the warning line of income distribution gap, while the Gini index of developed countries is between 0.24 and 0.36. However, the National Bureau of Statistics has not conducted an investigation on China's Gini coefficient for a long time. The reason is that the calculation process of Gini coefficient is complicated and the calculation method is not uniform, so this index is not counted.

Just because the National Bureau of Statistics can't count China's Gini coefficient doesn't mean others can't. According to the report of the World Bank, the Gini coefficient of China was about 0. 17 to 0. 18 in 1960s, and about 0.2 1 to 0.27 in 1980s. Since 2000, China's Gini coefficient has exceeded the warning line of 0.4, and has been increasing year by year. The World Bank report also shows that the average income of the top 20% population and the bottom 20% population is 10.7 times in China, 8.4 times in the United States, 4.5 times in Russia, 4.9 times in India and only 3.4 times in Japan. The World Bank report is very telling. The gap between the rich and the poor in China is the largest in the world today, if not the largest. The disparity between the rich and the poor is nothing to be proud of, and the statistical department has no way to ignore it.

After more than 30 years of rapid development in China, the income of a few people has caught up with and surpassed that of the super-rich in developed countries, such as some real estate developers, state-owned enterprise executives, big capitalists and powerful officials ... But the income of the vast majority of people has not increased with the economic development, especially the huge low-income groups are facing inflation, and the cost of living and the pressure of survival are increasing.

After more than 20 years of rapid development after the war, Japan's national income quickly caught up with and surpassed that of developed countries in Europe and America. The same is true of South Korea. In the 1960s, South Korea's per capita national income was only $90. After 195 broke through 10000 USD, it further broke through 20000 USD in 2007. In Hong Kong, an ordinary bricklayer earns no less than HK$ 600 a day.

Professor Zheng Yongnian, a tenured professor at Nottingham University and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote: "China's rapid economic growth has not brought about the well-off society or prosperity that Deng Xiaoping proposed before his death. On the contrary, the income gap between social groups and regions in China is ahead of the world. An absurd situation facing China is that the faster the economic growth, the greater the income gap! "