Don't have too much trust in the numbers coming out from the commies. To them it's just another tool for manipulation. Check out the article, even the SCMP casts doubt on the realities of the their figures.
@winnipegjets you should check out this article too.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-...oor-nations-wealth-debate-muddied-conflicting
A long-standing debate over whether China is a rich or poor nation has been reignited in recent weeks after the government released a series of diverging data sets on wealth in the world’s second biggest economy.
Premier Li Keqiang added fuel to the discussion on Thursday, saying that China has 600 million people living on a monthly income of 1,000 yuan (US$140).
“It’s barely enough to cover monthly rent in a mid-sized Chinese city,” Li told a press conference in Beijing.
Li’s comments add weight to the argument that China is a relatively poor country, as over 40 per cent of its 1.4 billion people are still living on a daily income of less than US$5.
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But income distribution tilts sharply towards the state, resulting in a situation commonly referred to as “rich state, poor people”.
China also has one of the world’s widest wealth gaps. The Gini coefficient – a measure of a population's wealth inequality – rose in 2017 for the second year in a row to 0.4670, meaning severe income inequality. China has not published the coefficient for the last two years.
