China's top statistician Li Deshui said in Beijing on Wednesday
the per capita net income of rural residents amounted to 3,255 yuan
(US$403.7) in 2005, a real growth of 6.2 percent, or 0.6 percentage
points lower that in the previous year.
Meanwhile, the per capita disposable income of urban residents
is 10,493 yuan, a real growth of 9.6 percent after deducting price
factors, or 1.9 percentage points higher than that in 2004, Li,
director of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), told a press
conference held by the Information Office of the State Council.
Li said the country's savings deposits of residents came to 14.1
trillion yuan, an increase of 2.1 trillion yuan compared with the
beginning of 2005.
At the same time, the registered urban unemployment rate stood
at 4.2 percent at the end of 2005, remaining at the same level as
in the previous year.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2006)