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• wilsonkf - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link

  You are quoting Disposable Income, which is after tax. It is $3500 under current exchange rate.
  
  However this is a country wide average. The Average Disposable Income last year of its capital Beijing is $9000. Beijing ranks the third among all Chinese cities.

• s.yu - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link

  I don't remember whether that figure was after tax or not, not that it matters because the personal income tax threshold is CNY5000, even earning $1000 you pay minimal income tax, there's also a high VAT and other taxes on specific sales.
  OTOH, Beijing's had the vast majority of its industrial activity transferred to neighboring provinces, you get very few "average factory laborers" in Beijing simply because there are very few factories. Granted, any factory worker left in Beijing probably earns more than "average", but the price of commodities in urban Beijing also approaches that of major US cities.

• RadiclDreamer - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link

  Seems like someone has touched a nerve for daring question the great and powerful Winnie the Poo

• Notmyusualid - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link

  @ s.yu - sounds about right.

• ZolaIII - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link

  Same could be said for Chinese social infrastructure where government provides a lot (food, education, yob, roof...) of things when you are pore & homeless. In US you get deported to concentration camp (Hawai). Try to look at some of Adolfs political speeches then compare it to Trump's. Freedom of speech when no one is listening doesn't worth a dime same can be said for the press which is already in the interest sphere. In China it's a same old political corruption but at the end no matter how much their stole it always comes back to state (owned property). Then there's racism which is very alive and kicking in US and non existence (in its primary form at least) in China. More examples could be made easily so don't think twice it's all right.

• s.yu - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link

  "Chinese social infrastructure where government provides a lot (food, education, yob, roof...) of things when you are pore & homeless."
  
  I don't know where you got that idea but you're mostly wrong. This *could* happen only when 1.you're systemically poor i.e. you're poor because you live in a poor place in China that's underdeveloped, and 2. you're poor in the absolute sense, in the sense that you lack purchasing power for basic commodity, not that you earn little compared to the national average but it's in line with your local economy. It's part of the state's policy for economic development, and it could reach you, but whether or not it does depends on their progress.
  
  If you're simply a guy with a college degree who once succeeded in getting a low rank white collar job in a major city but somehow became unemployed and have trouble finding another job, the state gives you nothing. If you wander the streets, you won't be allowed to sleep under bridges like in the US, if you try to build some makeshift home it gets demolished as illegal squatting, you'll be caught and thrown back to wherever your Hukou sits. That's why there are few slums in China, most people who fail in major cities get thrown back to rural areas where they're out of sight of "city people" and the international community.
  
  Despite what the Party claims, China practices state capitalism. The party calls itself Communist and calls its policy Socialism, but it's capitalism. As far as I can recall, China has defaulted at least twice on its old age pension system, meaning you don't get nearly what you're promised when they claimed your contributions, when you start collecting payments, this has already happened twice (of course any report about the topic is banned from the media, but it's not sensitive enough that academic articles are also banned) and current projections indicate that it's set to happen a third time. You should think that government filthy rich like China's should do a bail-out and give the poor retired seniors what they were promised, but no, China remains dedicated to commercial subsidies and international investments rather than making good on its promises to its citizens.

• ZolaIII - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link

  Well still better than getting sick, losing a job, not being able to pay your bills & ending up homeless. Sure you will get your social check but if you agree to move to Hawai.

• s.yu - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link

  "Well still better than getting sick, losing a job, not being able to pay your bills & ending up homeless"
  You need to reread the post, nothing guarantees that you won't get sick, won't lose your job, will be able to pay your bills and won't end up homeless.
  Getting sick in China is serious and somebody like the example above will not get covered by state insurance, that's only for people who's Hukou is located in certain major cities. Not that rural citizens don't get insured at all but their plans are basic and *any* major illness could destroy a family.
  When you lose your job, I should have been more specific, if you've worked at least a year in that position and meet some other criteria, you may claim ~850CNY a month for up to a year without employment, but you will certainly starve to death on that amount, much less pay your bills.
  The only reason the above example usually wouldn't end up homeless is that there's a high chance he has family where his Hukou sits he could fall back to, and he could probably help out as a farmer, that's the only reason, not that the state ensures employment if you would just cooperate with the relocation.

• Notmyusualid - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link

  @ s.yu - I like you. Well informed & honest.
  
  I've been to China twice already this year, and will be back in China end of June. Wish me luck. It certainly tests my patience.

• s.yu - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link

  "Try to look at some of Adolfs political speeches then compare it to Trump's."
  And try to look at some of Adolf's policies, then compare it to Xi's.
  LMFAO. The suppression of dissent and encouragement of citizens to report disloyalty or in fact anything not "positive energy" is much like the era of the Gestapo, or Red Guards.