Preamble:
Recently, Zhu Min, a well-known economist, former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and now dean of the Institute of Financial Research of Tsinghua University, proposed at the 2024 Summer Davos Forum that people between the ages of 22 and 60 should be encouraged to consume more.
Loading...
He believes that now China has entered a high-income stage, but what does not correspond to this high-income stage is that people's consumption demand is declining!
Why? Because the current main consumer group is people in the age group of 22 to 60 years old, the number of consumer goods for this group is decreasing, and the busy work also makes this part of the people's desire to consume suppressed.
He believes that China has entered a high-income country and should pay attention to the consumption demand for some luxury goods.
The comment area of netizens blew up:
Experts may judge the current situation of ordinary people in society based on their own income level, right?
However, netizens scolded unanimously, indicating that this may not really reflect the actual situation and voice of the people.
It would be inaccurate to say that the mainland has entered a high-income country.
According to the latest 2023 standards released by the World Bank, the measure for high-income countries is that the per capita national income must reach 13,800 US dollars, or 100,200 yuan.
In 2023, according to statistical data, China's per capita GDP will be 89,400 yuan, equivalent to about 12,690 US dollars. Theoretically, it is about $1,200 short of the standard for high-income countries.
But this is only an average and doesn't say much.
In fact, this data hides many problems such as unbalanced regional development and large income disparities between people.
Including the concerns and concerns of netizens, the debt problem of the social labor force, marriage consumption, and the two mountains of education and housing on people's shoulders, etc.
Including in April 2024, statistics released by the central bank showed that household deposits in the first quarter were 151.8 trillion yuan, and based on China's population of about 1.4 billion, the per capita deposits of residents were 108,400 yuan, close to 110,000 yuan.
This data is simply averaged, regardless of the huge individual differences behind the data!
Isn't it imprutentous to release such data? Does it really represent the status quo of the mass population?
Write at the end:
Sometimes it's surprising why experts say these shocking words?
It may be largely due to the failure to go deep into the grassroots to do solid research, and live in the upper class for a long time, unable to see the real needs of the people;
The other is to rely too much on data, only look at the surface of the data and lose oneself in the data, and cannot see the truth and background behind the data.
In the end, there is no empathy, just standing on his own point of view, talking to himself, but publishing it as an experience, resulting in a lot of jokes, big words, and nonsense!
What do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area!