China's miraculous achievements in numbers (4)

A couple celebrates the new year with a giant "2021" in Beijing on Jan 1, 2021. [Photo by Jiang Dong/chinadaily.com.cn]

3 Chinese people's per capita disposable income increased more than a hundredfold

Before 1986, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in China was less than 1,000 yuan. In 2005, the figure exceeded 10,000 yuan for the first time.

In 2020, the per capita disposable income grew by 2.1 percent year-on-year in real terms to 32,189 yuan, with the per capita disposable income of rural residents at 17,131 yuan, and at 43,834 yuan for urban residents. The per capita disposable income of urban residents surged more than a hundred times from 343.4 yuan in 1978.