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In the first half of the year, the per capita disposable income of the national residents was 14,063 yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period of the previous year; the actual increase of 6.6% after deducting the price factor continued the steady growth since the first quarter.
In terms of provinces, the per capita disposable income of nine provinces and cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, Liaoning, Shandong, etc. exceeded the national average of 14,063 yuan in the first half of the year; from the growth rate, there are 19 provinces and autonomous regions. The per capita disposable income of the city outperformed the growth rate of 8.7% nationwide.
In the first half of the year, the provinces and cities with a per capita disposable income of more than 20,000 yuan were located in the eastern region, namely Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, and Tianjin.
Among them, the per capita disposable income of residents in Shanghai and Beijing exceeds 30,000 yuan. The per capita disposable income of Shanghai residents is 32,612 yuan, ranking first in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the country; it is 9.1% higher than the same period last year, faster than the national growth rate. The per capita disposable income of Beijing residents was 31,079 yuan, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year, 0.1 percentage points faster than the national growth rate. The per capita disposable income of Zhejiang residents was 24,147 yuan, ranking third among 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with an increase of 8.9%.
In recent years, although the economic growth in the central and western regions is faster than that in the eastern region, there is still a large gap between the western region and the eastern region in terms of per capita disposable income. This is also one of the external manifestations of regional imbalances in China's development. The imbalance of regional development tends to widen the gap between residents' income and basic public services, and it will also bring about a series of social problems.
In the first half of the year, wage income accounted for a large proportion of all income. The per capita wage income of the national residents is 8091 yuan, the net operating income is 2265 yuan, the net property income is 1166 yuan, and the net transfer income is 2541 yuan.
From the data of various places, wage income is the “big head” of per capita disposable income. For example, the per capita disposable income of residents in Jiangsu Province is 19,885 yuan, of which wage income is 11,636 yuan; the per capita disposable income of permanent residents in Qinghai is 14,302 yuan, of which wage income is 9,410 yuan.
In the first half of this year, the income of rural residents in China grew faster than that of urban residents, and the income gap between urban and rural residents was narrowing. The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 19,770 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%; the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 7,142 yuan, an increase of 8.8%. The per capita income of rural residents grew faster than urban residents by 0.9 percentage points. The income ratio of urban and rural residents fell to 2.77 from 2.79 in the same period of last year.
Chang Tiewei, deputy director of the Employment Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that this year, in accordance with the deployment of the "Government Work Report", the inter-ministerial joint meeting on reform of the income distribution system was deepened, and the relevant task systems of 20 member units and related departments were collated and formed. In 2018, the key work arrangements in the field of income distribution and various income distribution policies have been further improved.
In November 2014, the General Office of the State Council issued the “Notice on Strengthening Environmental Supervision and Enforcement”, requiring “establishing an environmental credit evaluation system, including environmentally illegal enterprises in the “blacklist” and making them public, and incorporating environmental violations into social credit. The system makes the untrustworthy enterprises illegal and limited.
In December 2015, the former Ministry of Environmental Protection and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Enterprise Environmental Credit System” to accelerate the establishment of a “trustworthy incentive and disciplinary punishment” mechanism for corporate environmental protection nationwide.
After the release of the guidance, Jiangsu Province launched a comprehensive evaluation of corporate environmental credits, and divided the company's environmental protection letters into five levels: green, blue, yellow, red and black. Among them, green and blue are good credit companies; once they are listed in the black and red lists, corporate behavior will be limited everywhere. “The “Five Colors List” can effectively curb illegal sewage discharge and urge enterprises to strengthen environmental protection concepts,” said Gong Zhijun, a researcher at the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department.