Statistics

Chinese rural, urban residents' incomes rise steadily for Q3

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-21 17:46

BEIJING - The income of China's urban and rural residents continued to increase in the first nine months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Thursday.

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In the first three quarters of the year, per-capita disposable income for urban dwellers reached 14,334 yuan ($2,139.4), up 10.5 percent year on year. After deducting inflation, the actual growth was 7.5 percent, said NBS spokesperson Sheng Laiyun.

Per-capita cash income for rural residents totaled 4,869 yuan in the January-September period, and the actual growth was 9.7 percent after deducting inflation, according to Sheng.