According to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (very official sounding, wouldn’t you say?), incomes in rural China increased by 9.5% in the last year to $608.8 U.S. dollars. That’s the biggest annual jump since 1985.
Despite that growth, the disparity between rural and urban incomes is as wide as it has ever been .The average income of urban Chinese is 3.3 times higher and the largest income gap since the economic reforms in 1978.
That is why the migration from the rural interior of China to the prosperous eastern urban centers is so relentless.
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