{"id":32057,"date":"2013-01-20T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32057 "},"modified":"2013-01-20T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:01:00","slug":"32057-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32057","title":{"rendered":"China Reveals Economic Gap Between Rich, Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 Workers ride a tricycle outside a construction site of a residential real estate project in Beijing, China, January 13, 2013.<\/div>
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January 18, 2013<\/div>
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China has released statistics on the income gap between rich and poor after keeping the figures secret since 2000.<\/div>
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Ma Jiantang, chief of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a news conference Friday that figures from 2003 to the present showed “the income gap was rather big.”<\/div>
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The NBS used the “Gini coefficient” – a standard measure of economic inequality to measure the gap. The index ranges from 0 – perfect equality, to 1 – total inequality. Jiantang told reporters that China’s coefficient stood at 0.474 last year, placing the country among some of the world’s most unequal societies.<\/div>
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China’s economic boom has made billionaires out of some entrepreneurs, and Communist Party officials seem to live in luxury. However, the majority of China’s people have experienced little growth in income.<\/div>
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Narrowing the economic gap is one of the most pressing issues issues facing the government, which fears that civil unrest could topple the ruling party.<\/div>
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