News >China

Opinions clash on unreported income levels

2010-08-27 07:27

SHANGHAI - A report on China's widening income gap and a potentially high level of unreported income earned by the rich has come under fire.

The report, entitled Gray Income and National Income Distribution, suggested China's "gray income" reached 5.4 trillion yuan ($794 billion) in 2008.

Officials from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday that the figures in the report, which was published by an independent group in July, were unreliable.

"There are many flaws in the report, such as how the samples were chosen and calculations made, and the final result is significantly higher (than the actual level)," said Shi Faqi, an official with the NBS, in an article on the bureau's website.

Shi's article was commenting on a report by Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the National Economic Research Institute affiliated with the China Reform Foundation, a Beijing-based economic development research group.

That report claimed China's average urban household income was 90 percent higher than official data, which it claims does not cover gray income such as kickbacks and bribes.

He said such gray income, amounting to 5.4 trillion yuan in 2008, was mostly earned by those who already have high incomes.

Wang also suggested that the discrepancy means China's gross domestic product (GDP) could be higher, its income gap wider, and the proportion of national income earned by laborers even lower than reported.

In fact, Wang's study on gray income from 2005 to 2008 showed that the growth of such income in China was faster than that of the GDP, with the rich getting most of it.

The survey that led to Wang's report covered only 4,909 households, about 7.6 percent of that investigated by the NBS survey, and thus the results based on the survey were not reliable, Shi said.

Furthermore, the households in the report were picked by researchers, instead of by random sampling, which was likely to cause serious deviations, Shi said.

Additionally, the report developed mathematical models to process variables such as consumer prices, residents' dietary habits and educational backgrounds, which had significantly overestimated the level of China's household earnings, he noted.

According to calculations using the model, the country's per capita disposable income in cities topped 32,000 yuan in 2008, double the NBS figure, while total urban incomes would account for nearly 74 percent of China's GDP.

"Such results are apparently not reasonable," Shi said.

Related News:

主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产精品久久久久久| 337p日本欧洲亚洲大胆裸体艺术 | 日本久久久久亚洲中字幕| 女人的高潮毛片| 国产精华av午夜在线观看| 四虎麻豆国产精品| 亚洲电影在线播放| 久久国产精品久久| aⅴ在线免费观看| 麻豆视传媒一区二区三区| 精品久久久中文字幕二区| 国内精品久久久久影院蜜芽| 国产精品无码一区二区在线| 国产婷婷色综合av蜜臀av| 四虎亚洲国产成人久久精品| 亚洲精品色午夜无码专区日韩| 亚洲欧美视频在线播放| 亚洲乳大丰满中文字幕| 一级爱爱片一级毛片-一毛| 亚洲人成在线播放网站岛国| 精品免费人成视频APP| 晚上睡不着正能量网址入口| 天天综合天天综合| 国产乡下三级全黄三级| 亚洲成人福利网站| а√天堂中文最新版地址| 高岭家の二轮花未增删| 欧美色图另类图片| 性色av闺蜜一区二区三区| 国产成人综合在线视频| 亚洲电影在线播放| 两个人看的www在线视频| 黄色网站在线观看视频| 欧美精品久久一区二区三区| 性xxxx视频播放免费| 国产午夜激无码av毛片| 亚洲国产成人久久综合区| chinese猛攻打桩机体育生| 色综合久久中文字幕综合网| 欧美三级在线播放| 在线视频国产一区|