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E-mail Xinhua, November 8, 2012
Chinese leader Hu Jintao set a new target for economic growth on Thursday, saying that the country should double its 2010 GDP and per capita income by 2020.
"On the basis of making China's development much more balanced, coordinated and sustainable, we should double its 2010 GDP and per capita income for both urban and rural residents (by 2020)," Hu said in a keynote speech at the opening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
This is the first time that per capita income has been included in the country's 2020 blueprint for a moderately prosperous society. Previous targets set at the 16th and 17th CPC national congresses merely called for the growth of GDP, not of per capita income.
SOLEMN PROMISE
An internationally accepted indicator for gauging people's living standards, per capita income refers to the earnings of each person if the national income were to be equitably divided between the country's 1.3 billion people.
Chang Xiuze, an economist with the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's economic planner, sees the quantitative target as a solemn promise made by the Party as well as a manifestation of the Party's resolve to address public concerns and facilitate economic growth for the good of the people.
Official statistics showed that China's fiscal revenues broke the 10-trillion-yuan benchmark last year, registering growth of 24.8 percent from 2010.
Also in 2011, the per capita disposal income for Chinese urban dwellers rose by 14.1 percent to 21,810 yuan (3,493 U.S. dollars) over that in 2010. The figure for rural residents rose by 17.9 percent to 6,977 yuan. The figures could be lower with consideration of inflation.
In 2007, the world's average income per person stood at 7,000 U.S. dollars, according to the Globalist Quiz produced by the Globalist, an online magazine that focuses on globalization.
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