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Chinese Farmers Spend More in First Nine Months
Chinese rural dwellers spent 1,031yuan (US$124.6) per capita in the January-September period of 2002, a year-on-year rise of 6 percent in real terms, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported on Wednesday.

According to the NBS, Chinese farmers spent 362 yuan (US$43.7) per capita on food, a rise of 4.3 percent year-on-year.

Due to increasing numbers of farmers being employed as workers, rural dwellers' per capita spending on meals away from their home villages soared 19.1 percent year-on-year, reaching 49 yuan (US$5.9), the NBS said.

In the nine-month period, farmers spent 127 yuan (US$15.3) per capita on housing, up 6 percent from the same period last year.

Durable goods cost rural dwellers 21 yuan (US$2.5) per capita, up 14.2 percent year-on-year, reversing a drop in spending on such items in the same period of 2001.

Chinese farmers spent 89 yuan (US$10.8) per capita on transport and communications, a rise of 15.2 percent year-on-year.

Fees for education cost Chinese farmers 124 yuan (US$15) per capita, up 9.1 percent, becoming an important factor in the overall increase in farmer spending, NBS said.

(People's Daily October 31, 2002)

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