Lang Xianping: The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor Is Serious &Nbsp; The Poor In China Are Beginning To Despair.

In 2010, the aftermath of the financial crisis remained, and the problem of "pocketbook" of Chinese residents remained a concern. In January 12, 2010, the China consumer survey released by International Investment Bank Credit Suisse said that China's household income has increased by at least 50% since 2004. This report, immediately aroused some people's strong doubts, calling family income "growth". A report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences revealed that in the 15 years from 1992 to 2007, the share of GDP in wages and salaries decreased by 12%. From the actual feelings of the majority of the citizens and the survey of the relevant organizations, the real income growth of the Chinese residents has been relatively slow in recent years, and the proportion of GDP has been declining, which has become a big worry for China's economic development.

　 One, the longest working time VS minimum wage income.

Now there are two interesting phenomena. One is that China has become the second largest consumer of luxury goods. Another is the "shortage of migrant workers" after the financial crisis. Can you make it clear? A big consumer of luxury goods, its consumption accounts for only 29% of GDP in 2009. According to this data, China is actually a country with a serious shortage of consumption power.

Why is the consumption power serious enough? Because the Chinese are too poor. Let me give you an example to add the salary income of different countries to the GDP of this country, and then make a comparison. This proportion is the highest in Europe and the United States, averaging 55%, Japan is 53%, Australia 47%, Korea is 44%, South America's Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela are on average 33%, Southeast Asia, including Philippines and Thailand, on average 28%, and the Middle East, including Iran and Turkey, is about 25% on average. Unfortunately, we do not have detailed African data, which should be below 20%, but I am not sure. So who do you think China will be closer to? Europe, America, South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Africa? According to the questionnaire I did at the lecture, most of the audience thought that our proportion should be similar to that of Africa.

I am laughing! If readers think we are the same as Africa, you can only say that you are a bit optimistic. Readers guess what our percentage is? I tell you, only 8% is the lowest in the world! But we were not like this before. It used to be even as high as 18%, but by 2008 it had dropped to 12%, and by 2009 it was only 8%.

What about the per capita wages? The first rate per hour per person is Germany, about 30 dollars, second Americans, or about 22 dollars. We are worse than Thailand. Thailand is close to 2 dollars. We are only 0.8 gold and one hour, ranking the last in the world.

Although our wage level is not good enough, we are in the bottom of the world, but we have the first place. That is our working time. Our working time is as high as 2200 hours a year. The United States is far behind us. They only have 1610 hours, the lowest in Holland is only 1389 hours, and Japan is slightly higher than 1758 hours. Brazil and Argentina are second only to us, 1841 hours and 1903 hours respectively. You see, our workers are the least paid in the world, but the longest working hours are in the world. What a hardworking nation, what a poor nation!

　 Two, what hope can we give to the poor?

As we mentioned above, it is already a sense of life of the middle class. If you look at the life of those who are low income, you will feel poorer. Let's take a look at the bill of life of a Guizhou peasant family on the Internet. There is a saying in the bill: "now that there is salt and what to do with soy sauce," is that not enough to explain how difficult it is for our common people to live? In addition, the conclusions drawn by the Academy of Social Sciences and many other research institutes at home and abroad also make us very worried. They say that on the one hand, there is no significant increase in the income of more than 80% of our families, and on the other hand, the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming more and more serious. For any country, when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, social contradictions It will become more and more serious.

Our problem now is the low income. Polarization between the rich and the poor Seriously, I am very worried that these poor people will lose their hope of making progress, or they will start to despair. Platon once explored the social class division of the ideal country. Platon had a theory of gold, silver and copper, saying that the governor, guardians and handicraftsmen of the city state were like gold, silver and copper, and the three were not mobile. The sages of Chinese traditional culture, though they also raised the social strata of the king, minister, father and son, but he also said a concept of respecting the virtues. This idea is to let those virtuous and talented people jump to the upper class of society through their own efforts. But this idea seems hard to push now, because we have created many bottlenecks and many obstacles artificially. For example, the process of urbanization in China is slowly accelerating, but it will continue for many years. The reason is that if most people go into the cities, how do they survive? A real example is that the monthly income of a migrant worker is generally 1000 yuan, and the rental needs more than 200. Some property management fees include cable TV fees, utilities and so on. What is probably more than 300, and there may be more than 200 left in a month? What is left? The income of the common people is so low. I ask you, what is the foundation of the urbanization process? That is, you must work for these people, and then provide employment opportunities to stimulate consumption. The question is, how can they live in such low salaries?

This article excerpts from the new book "Lang Xianping: Why are our days so hard?"