On the eve of liberation, the economy of old China was on the verge of collapse, with successive wars leaving devastation in their wake, the productivity of the country severely damaged, the market in depression, prices soaring, and unemployment rampant, with the majority of the laboring people struggling for survival.
In 1949, the Chinese people became the masters of their own house, and at that time, the lives of most people were still maintained at the lowest level of survival. In the face of such a situation, the Party and the state took a series of measures to heal the wounds of war, restore and develop production, stabilize prices, and arrange employment to stabilize people's lives. The people, with a spirit of ownership and enthusiasm, threw themselves into the construction of the new China, laying the initial material foundation for the development of the new China. This played a great role in developing production and stabilizing the hearts of the people, who were full of love and gratitude to the ****productivity party that saved them from the fire, and full of pride and enthusiasm for being their own masters. "The First Five-Year Plan period is known as the first "golden age" of China's economic construction after the founding of New China. However, due to many known historical and practical reasons, we did not put all our energy into solid economic construction, and the people's life had several ups and downs, hovering on the subsistence line for 20 years. Those who lived in that era will not forget that although people's lives improved, due to the severe impact on economic development, there was a scarcity of market supply and an insufficient supply of consumer goods, and the vast majority of commodities had to be purchased on the basis of tickets. It was during this period that the world economy surged ahead, and the gap between China's economy and its people's lives and those of the developed countries widened.
Second, the income of urban residents increased by 35 times
Now, with the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as the symbol of the reform and opening up has been 30 years, the province is the same as the whole country, the economy has achieved unprecedented development, big leap and big breakthroughs.
Since the reform and opening up, due to the development of the economy and the main distribution of national income tilted to the individual, so that the income of urban residents to maintain rapid growth. By 2008, the province's per capita disposable income of urban residents reached 12,829.45 yuan, the highest level since the reform and opening up, compared with 1981, an increase of 35 times, an average growth rate of 14.1% over 26 years. In general, since the reform and opening up, the province's per capita disposable income of urban residents is increasing, experienced a "rapid growth, high-speed growth, steady growth" process, income channels to achieve diversification.
First, wage income is still the main source of disposable income, non-wage income increased significantly. Since the reform and opening up, urban residents wage income accounted for the proportion of total household income, although declining, but still accounted for more than 60%, is the main source of total household income. 2008 reached 8,677.27 yuan, an increase of 8,313.56 yuan over 1981, an increase of 23 times. The proportion of non-wage income in total household income is on a rising trend, reaching 36.2% in 2008. The growth and proportion of wage and non-wage income can be divided into the following stages:
The period of development of non-wage income: from 1981 to 1985, as the economic system was still in the initial stage, the non-wage income of urban residents was reduced, and the income was still mainly based on wages, and the proportion of wage income in the family's income has been kept between 90% and 94%. 94%, with little change. With the expansion of other income channels, the diversification of family income gradually manifested itself, the proportion of non-wage income increased year by year.
The period of comprehensive growth of non-wage income. 1986 to 1998, with the continuous improvement of the economic system reform, urban residents' non-wage income accounted for the proportion of total family income was on the rise. The gradual increase in the number of urban workers engaged in self-employment, second careers, and stopping work without pay is an important factor in the increase in non-wage income and the diversification of sources of income, and there is still a certain degree of instability in non-wage income during this period. The proportion of non-wage income in total household income rose from 15.27 per cent to 26.46 per cent in 1998, an increase of 10 percentage points. The household income of urban residents grew faster, to 4,223.88 yuan in 1998, an increase of 3,459.12 yuan over the 1986 figure of 764.76 yuan, a 4.5-fold increase. The increase in total family income led to a synchronized rise in wage income and non-wage income, from 648.01 yuan and 116.75 yuan in 1986 to 3106.32 yuan and 1117.56 yuan in 1998, an increase of 3.8 times and 8.6 times respectively.
The period of high growth of non-wage income: from 1999 to 2008, non-wage income increased significantly, accounting for a steady rise in the proportion of household income. 1999, under the influence of the accelerated pace of reform of state-owned enterprises, the broadening of employment channels for urban residents and changes in the right to take the initiative in employment, non-wage income increased rapidly. 2008 amounted to 4,928.76 yuan, accounting for 36.2% of the proportion of household income. In 2008, it reached 4928.76 yuan, accounting for 36.2% of household income, an increase of 3453.08 yuan compared with 2000, an average growth rate of up to 16.27% during the 8-year period, with the proportion rising by 5.64 percentage points, and the ratio of wage income to non-wage income was close to 6:4.
The second one is the rapid growth of net income from business, property income and transfer income. In 2008, the property income of urban residents in our province reached 97.74 yuan, an increase of 29.22 yuan or 42.6% over 2002. Net operating income was 1,154.14 yuan, an increase of 332.96 yuan from 2002. Transfer income was $3676.88, accounting for 74.6% of non-wage income, an increase of $2003.48 from 2002, an increase of 1.2 times.
Third, the income of rural residents increased by 27.3 times
Over the 60 years since the founding of New China, the material life of rural residents in the province has been gradually plentiful, the quality of consumption has been significantly improved, and the living environment has been significantly improved.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC, the per capita net income of farmers in our province has realized rapid growth. According to sample survey data, by 2008, the per capita net income of peasants in the province reached 4,932.7 yuan, an increase of 27.3 times over the 1978 figure of 181 yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 11.6 percent.
Looking back over the past 30 years, the growth of per capita net income of farmers in our province and the improvement of farmers' living standards can be divided into three stages: from getting rid of poverty to solving the problem of subsistence, and from having enough food and water to realizing overall well-being, and from overall well-being to comprehensive well-being.
First, to get rid of poverty and solve the problem of subsistence (1978-1991)
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC, along with the implementation of the household contract responsibility system, the majority of peasants' enthusiasm for production has never been higher. Due to the fact that farmers in the province occupy a larger area of arable land per capita, the advantages of land resources have fully emerged, enabling the province to realize a rapid growth in the per capita net income of peasants, who basically got rid of poverty and solved the problem of food and clothing. Per capita net income increased from 181 yuan in 1978 to 748 yuan in 1991, an increase of 4.1 times, or an average annual increase of 11.5%; per capita living consumption expenditure of peasants increased from 194 yuan in 1979 to 649 yuan in 1991, an increase of 3.3 times, or an average annual increase of 10.6%. Engel's coefficient dropped from 67.5% in 1979 to 56.6% in 1991, a decrease of 10.9 percentage points.
The second is to have more than enough to eat and to move towards overall well-offness (1992-1999)
In 1992, marked by Deng Xiaoping's speech on his southern tour, and especially by the 14th Party Congress, which set the target mode of economic system reform at a socialist market economy, the reforms entered into a new stage of overall complementary measures, key breakthroughs, and comprehensive attacks.
During this period, the rural economic reform has taken a major step forward and made great progress and breakthroughs, the establishment of various markets to make commodities from the "small circulation" to the "large circulation", for the exchange of commodities to provide convenient conditions. The increase in the price of agricultural products has laid a good foundation for the growth of farmers' income, and the living standard of farmers has also rapidly progressed from subsistence to overall well-being. The per capita net income of farmers in the province increased from 807 yuan in 1992 to 2,261 yuan in 1999, an increase of 2.8 times, or an average annual growth rate of 15.9%; the per capita living consumption expenditure of farmers increased from 643 yuan in 1992 to 1,348 yuan in 1999, an increase of 2.1 times, or an average annual growth rate of 11.2%. The Engel coefficient fell from 59.4 percent in 1992 to 53.3 percent in 1999, a decline of 6.1 percentage points. According to "the basic standard of the national people's well-off living standard" measurement, by 1999, the province's rural residents basically realize the overall well-off level of life.
Third, the overall well-off to comprehensively well-off society (2000 to 2008)
Into the new century, the growth of the per capita net income of farmers in the province was mainly driven by policies. Since 2003, the tax reform, agricultural tax exemption, grain subsidies, seed subsidies, agricultural subsidies and other policies to benefit farmers have played an important role in reducing the burden on farmers and increasing their incomes, and farmers' living standards have improved significantly.
In 2008, the per capita net income of farmers in our province reached 4,932.7 yuan, an increase of 2.4 times over 2000, with an average annual growth rate of 11.8%; the per capita living consumption expenditure of farmers was 3,443.2 yuan, an increase of 2.2 times over 2000, with an average annual growth rate of 10.5%. Engel's coefficient was 39.6%, down 5.8 percentage points from 45.4% in 2000.
Over the past 30 years, the per capita income of farmers in the province has realized rapid growth. The main reasons for the growth are as follows:
First, the farmers' income is closely related to the rural reform. the family contract responsibility system, which started in 1978, has greatly mobilized the farmers' enthusiasm for production. The per capita net income of farmers in our province increased from 181 yuan in 1978 to 628 yuan in 1988, an increase of 447 yuan, an increase of 3.5 times, with an average annual growth rate of 13.3%. In the ten years from 1965 to 1975, however, the per capita net income of farmers increased from 140 yuan to 146 yuan, an increase of only 6 yuan. During the five years from 1988 to 1992, there were basically no policy measures for rural reform, resulting in an average annual growth of only 6.4% in per capita net income for farmers in the province during this period. Then again, from 2003 to 2008, the five-year period, the average annual growth of net income per capita farmers in our province 13.1%.
Secondly, farmers' income is closely related to the price of agricultural products. In our province, the net income per capita of farmers in the years of faster growth is the price of agricultural products more substantial upward adjustment of a few years. This has happened twice since the reform. The first was from 1979 to 1983, the per capita net income of farmers increased from 223 yuan to 463 yuan, an increase of 2.1 times, an average annual growth rate of 20.1%. The second time was from 1995 to 1997, when the per capita net income of farmers increased from 1,610 yuan to 2,186 yuan in 1997, an increase of 35.8%, with an average annual growth rate of 16.6%.
Thirdly, farmers' income is closely related to the policy of favoring agriculture. since 2003, the state has implemented the policy of favoring agriculture, such as tax reform, exemption of agricultural tax, direct grain subsidies, seed subsidies, agricultural subsidies, etc., which has played a positive role in boosting the income of farmers. in 2004, the province implemented the policy of "one exemption and three subsidies", which directly increased the income of farmers by 228 yuan per capita, and contributed to the increase of farmers' income. In 2004, the policy of "one exemption and three subsidies" was implemented in our province, directly increasing the per capita income of farmers by 228 yuan, contributing 48.5% to the growth of the per capita net income of farmers. By 2008, the actual per capita income of farmers in the province from various policy subsidies was RMB 356, a year-on-year increase of 41.3%, contributing 14% to the growth of the per capita net income of farmers in the province. It also increased the per capita net income of farmers in the province from RMB 2,530 in 2003 to RMB 4,932.7 in 2008, an increase of RMB 2,402.7, an increase of 95%, an average annual growth rate of 14.3%.
Fourth, farmers' income is closely related to income from part-time jobs. 1978 to 1983 was a period of high growth in farmers' net income in the province, with an average annual growth rate of 20.7%. During this period, the driving force behind the growth of farmers' income was mainly attributed to the household contract responsibility system. After entering the 1990s, although family-run income is still the mainstay of farmers' income, but with the increasing income of farmers working outside the home (wage income). The proportion of family-run income declined from 86.9% in 1990 to 67.8% in 2008; while the proportion of wage income increased from 8.1% to 16.4% over the same period. In absolute terms, in 2008, the net income of rural residents in our province from family business was 3,344.7 yuan, an increase of 4.8 times over 1990, while wage income increased 12.5 times over the same period. The contribution rate of wage income to farmers' net income rose from -5% in 1990 to 13.3% in 2008, an increase of 18.3 percentage points, showing that wage income has become the main source of incremental per capita net income for farmers. And by 2008, the structure of farmers' income in the province had changed significantly.
(1) family income has become the main body of farmers' income
The implementation of the family contract responsibility system has made farmers become independent business units, and the source of income has shifted from the collective unified management to the family management, and in 2008, the per capita net income from family management of farmers in the province was 3,344.72 yuan, which is 55.8 times more than that of 1978, and the average annual growth rate was 13.9%, accounting for 13.9% of the net income. 13.9%, accounting for 67.8% of net income, up 35.5 percentage points from 1978.
(2) Non-productive business income grew at the fastest rate
In 2008, the per capita non-productive business net income (property income and transfer income) of farmers in the province was 778 yuan, 99.1 times higher than that of 1978, with an average annual growth rate of 16%, which was 2.1 percentage points higher than the average annual growth rate of per capita net income from family business. The proportion of net income was 15.8%, up 11.5 percentage points from 1978.
(3) Wage Income Becomes the Biggest Highlight of Farmers' Income Increase
In 2008, the per capita wage income of farmers in the province was 810.17 yuan, an increase of 21.6 times than that of 1983, with an average annual growth rate of 12.5%. The proportion of wage income to net income has reached 16.4%, up 10.9 percentage points.
(4) The rate of monetization of farmers' income has increased significantly
Over the past 30 years, with the gradual acceleration of the process of rural socialization and commodification, the situation of rural residents' food-based income has been gradually replaced by monetary income. 1978, the per capita income from the sale of agricultural and sideline products of the rural residents was only 28 yuan, accounting for 14.2% of the total income; the per capita net cash income was 64 yuan, accounting for 32.3% of the total income. per capita net cash income was 64 yuan, accounting for 32.3% of the total income. By 2008, the per capita income of farmers in our province from the sale of agricultural and sideline products was RMB 4,661.55, an increase of 165.5 times compared with 1978, accounting for 56% of the total income, an increase of 41.8 percentage points; the per capita net cash income reached RMB 4,351.39, an increase of 66.9 times, accounting for 80.8% of the total income, an increase of 48.5 percentage points. The increase in the degree of monetization of farmers' income and the enhancement of disposable capacity will certainly promote the transformation of the way of growth of farmers' income and consumption, so that the farmers' production and consumption of life is more and more included in the market economic cycle of the whole society.
Fourth, the quality of life of urban and rural residents continue to improve
(a) urban residents living consumption continues to increase
Over the past 60 years since the founding of New China, changes in the lives of urban residents roughly to the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1978 as a watershed. The 30 years before the reform and opening up, from the shortage of material supply to food and clothing security, life has been initially improved; 30 years after the reform and opening up, the residents' lives have changed dramatically, realizing two leaps.
1. 30 years before the reform of the struggle for food and clothing
In the 1970s, after the end of the Cultural Revolution, although the planned system of "rationing" and "ticket" supply was still in force, the residents were still living in the city. The 1970s after the end of the Cultural Revolution saw an initial improvement in people's lives, although the planned system of "rationing" and "vouchering" was still in place. From the aspect of food, "three meals a day are basically guaranteed"; from the aspect of wear, it is "three kinds of clothes" (cadre suit, Zhongshan suit, Lenin suit), "four colors" (gray, green, Four colors" (gray, green, blue, and white); and "three revolutions and one sound" represented by bicycles, sewing machines, watches, and radios in terms of household durables ownership. Looking back on these 30 years of development of people's lives, the ups and downs, and little improvement.
2. 30 Years of Reform Toward Well-being
Since 1978, with the continuous development of the province's economy, residents' income has increased substantially, and the quality of life of urban and rural residents has improved, gradually diversifying consumption demand and rationalizing the consumption structure. While pursuing the quality of material life, the quality of spiritual life of urban residents has also been significantly improved. According to the survey data, in 2008, the per capita consumption expenditure of urban residents in our province has reached 9229.05 yuan, which is 28 times higher than that of 348.02 yuan in 1981, with an average annual growth rate of 13.7%. At the same time, the residents' consumption concepts are also adjusted and transformed with the increase of income, the consumption mode shows qualitative changes, and the consumption orientation is becoming more and more diversified.
(1) Engel's coefficient has been declining year by year, and the living standard of the residents has reached well-off
In the 30 years after the reform and opening up, the Engel's coefficient of the urban residents in the province has been declining year by year, and the Engel's coefficient in 2008 was 34%, which was reduced by 23.5 percentage points compared with that in 1978, indicating that the living standard of the urban residents in the province has jumped up to the well-off level from subsistence to well-off.
From 1979 to 1992, the Engel's coefficient of urban households in our province was between 50% and 60%, and the income of urban residents was mainly used for food consumption, and the life of urban residents in this period was of subsistence type; from 1993 to 1999, along with the development of the economy, the increase of urban residents' income, and the gradual enrichment of consumption content, the urban residents' expenditure on other aspects of consumption increased, and the Engel's coefficient was between 40% and 50% in 2008, which was 23.5% lower than that of 1978. Engel's coefficient was between 40% and 50%, and the overall family life of urban residents in our province entered the well-off; from 2000 to 2008, with the substantial increase in urban residents' income, the satisfaction of basic consumption and the strong growth of other consumption, Engel's coefficient dropped to 34%.
(2) Dietary structure is more reasonable, nutrition and green food is gradually favored
In recent years, people are more and more concerned about the scientific and reasonable structure of food nutrition. Residents of the food consumption structure from the grain-based "staple food" to the nutritional and delicious "side dishes" change. A variety of fine, leisure, convenience and health food into the home, refined oil, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables and other green, low-sugar, low-calorie food is favored, becoming an important part of the residents of the food consumption. 2007, the province's urban residents of aquatic products, eggs, fruits and vegetables per capita consumption of 865.66 yuan, accounting for 30.5% of the food expenditure.
(3) Clothing consumption towards fashion, brand, personalization
Since the reform and opening up, with the improvement of the living standards of urban residents and the pursuit of beauty, good quality, fashionable, branded and personalized clothing gradually become the mainstream of consumption. Urban residents in our province, clothing expenditures have risen year by year, according to the survey, in 2008, urban residents per capita clothing expenditures of 1,259.62 yuan, than in 1981, an increase of 22.8 times.
(4) Modernization of the main consumer durables of the family, high-grade consumer goods into the ordinary people's homes
Urban residents' lives have changed especially significantly is the renewal of consumer durables of the family, before the reform, people pursued the "three ringing and one turn" of the "four old things Before the reform, people pursued the "old four pieces" of "three rings and one turn", i.e. bicycle, sewing machine, watch and radio; at the beginning of the reform, they shifted to the "new four pieces" mainly represented by television sets, washing machines, refrigerators and tape recorders, etc. In the 1990s, "new four pieces" were introduced to the market. In the 1990s, the "old four" became saturated, and the "new three" began to enter a period of development. After entering the year 2000, urban residents owned 117.7 color televisions, 91.5 washing machines and 87 refrigerators per 100 households, basically reaching saturation. The ownership of new consumer durables such as air-conditioners, home computers and cars has climbed rapidly, and complete sets of furniture, washing machines, color television sets, refrigerators and microwave ovens have entered the stage of renewal. Digital cameras, sterilized dishwasher, drinking fountains, dishwashers, fitness equipment, home computers, video cameras, pianos, air conditioners and other new products, at a faster rate into the daily consumption of ordinary people.
(5) Per capita housing area of 26.97 square meters, living conditions are more perfect
Housing conditions is an important part of the residents' life towards overall well-being, since the reform and opening up, with the increase in income level, urban residents in our province pay more attention to the improvement of housing conditions. Urban residents of housing towards spacious and bright, high-grade decoration, fully functional, easy to use direction. Survey data show that the area of housing grew rapidly between 1981 and 1995. Especially after the housing reform in 1998, the province's urban residents per capita housing area increased rapidly, 10.28 square meters in 1999, reached 26.97 square meters in 2008, eight years per capita living area increased by 1.62 times, compared with the beginning of the reform of 1981 increased by 3.7 times.
Expenditures on housing have also increased rapidly, and in 2008, per capita housing expenditures of urban residents in the province amounted to RMB 1,285.29 yuan, accounting for 13.2% of consumption expenditures.
In 2008, 91.7% of urban households owned their own houses; 87.2% of households owned units of complementary housing; and only 12.8% of households owned ordinary buildings, bungalows, and other housing. The living conditions of urban residents have become more comfortable, and facilities are constantly being improved. By the end of 2008, 81.7 per cent of the families of urban residents in the province owned housing with more than two bedrooms; 61.5 per cent of families had renovated their housing (with an average renovation cost of more than 10,000 yuan for each family); 99.3 per cent of the families were using safe and hygienic tap water; 88.3 per cent of the families were using clean energy; 94.1 per cent of the families had centralized heating equipment; and cable television penetration was only 12.8 per cent. heating equipment; and 100% cable TV penetration rate.
(6) Transportation and communication consumption tends to be modernized, and the pace of life is obviously accelerated
With the acceleration of the people's pace of life, modern transportation and communication have rapidly entered into the consumption of the residents. 2002, along with the price of cell phones and the reduction of mobile communication tariffs, cell phones have sprung up into the homes of ordinary people, and by 2008, the number of mobile phones owned by every 100 households in urban areas had reached 185 in the province. By 2008, the number of cell phones per 100 urban households in our province had reached 185, and one person with multiple phones was no longer a novelty. 2008, the expenditure on transportation and communication reached 954.96 yuan, an increase of 489.6 yuan or 105% over 2002. In recent years, the pace of life has accelerated, changes in work and lifestyle have increased the number of trips and the distance traveled, and the family car as a modern means of transportation has become a hotspot for families, especially young and middle-aged families to chase. 2008, the province's urban residents per 100 families with a car 3.89, an increase of 8.9 times more than in 2002.
(7) Personalized consumption such as culture, education and healthcare is valued
While pursuing material enjoyment, urban residents also pay more attention to improving their physical, mental and cultural qualities. Survey data show that in 2008, the average urban residents in our province spent 914.47 yuan per person on health care, an increase of 831 times more than the 1981 1.1 yuan (medical fees); for education, culture and recreation services, the expenditure of 1071.8 yuan, an increase of 167 times more than the 1981 6.4 yuan (tuition fees, movie fees and child care fees).
(ii) Consumption level of rural residents has been greatly improved
In 2008, the per capita living consumption expenditure of farmers in the province was 3,443.24 yuan, an increase of 3,227 yuan, or 14.9 times more than that in 1980, with an average annual growth rate of 10.5%; Engel's coefficient for rural residents dropped from 0.648 in 1979 to 0.396 in 2008, a decrease of 25.2 percentage points.
1. Consumption structure of rural residents was obviously optimized
(1) Engel's coefficient declined by 25.2 percentage points
Engel's coefficient is an important indicator to measure the standard of living of people in a country or a region, and in 2008, Engel's coefficient of rural households in the province declined from 64.8% in 1979 to 39.6%, a decrease of 25.2 percentage points. 25.2 percentage points. In other words, the rural residents of our province have got rid of poverty, solved the problem of food and clothing, realized the overall well-off, and are moving from overall well-off to a comprehensive well-off society.
(2) Consumption continues to broaden the field of material and cultural life is more abundant
30 years, with the solution of the problem of people's food and clothing, with the requirements of the development of market economy, the farmers to learn culture, learning technology consciousness is also increasing, attaching importance to the culture and education, civilized life of the atmosphere has been formed in the rural areas of the province. 2008, the average per capita consumption expenditure on culture, education and entertainment of farmers' families in the province 342 yuan, compared with the 19th century, the average consumption expenditure on culture, education and entertainment of farmers' families in the province was 1.5 yuan. In 2008, the per capita consumption expenditure of peasant families in our province was 342 yuan, 332.1 yuan more than that in 1980, an increase of 33.5 times, with an average annual growth rate of 13.8%, and the proportion it accounted for was 9.9%, an increase of 5.4 percentage points.
(3) service expenditures increased significantly
With the improvement of the living standard of rural residents, the trend of socialization of household services has become more and more obvious, and the demand for service consumption has been on the rise. in 2007, rural households in the province spent 171 times more than in 1979 for cultural and service consumption expenditures, with an average annual growth rate of 20.9%, and accounted for the proportion of consumption expenditures of life of 9.9%, up 9 percentage points from 1979.
2. The quality of life of rural residents has improved significantly
(1) Food consumption tends to be nutritious
Over the past 30 years, farmers in the province have basically changed the traditional single structure of food as the basic food, so as to the consumption of meat, eggs, milk, fish, fruits, and other food structure changes, the dietary structure is more optimized, more nutritious diet, scientific. 2008, the average per capita food consumption expenditure of 13.7% of farmers in the province. In 2008, the per capita food consumption expenditure of farmers in our province amounted to 1,362 yuan, an increase of 1,223 yuan over 1980, with an average annual growth rate of 8.4%. In terms of food consumption, in 2008, farmers in our province consumed 179 kilograms of grain per capita, down 45.3% from 1980, meat and poultry increased by 15.5%, eggs increased by 6.13 times, aquatic products increased by 4.75 times.
(2) clothing consumption tends to fashion, urbanization
30 years, with the increasing income, the rural residents of the clothing consumption concept is changing rapidly, increasingly urbanized. Wearing more attention to the texture of clothing, style and color collocation, clothing brand-name, fashion and personalization has become a pursuit of people, clothing consumption tendency has also become the mainstream of clothing consumption. 2008, the province's per capita clothing consumption expenditure of 254 yuan, an increase of 228 yuan than in 1980, an average annual growth rate of 8.0%.
(3) Living conditions and living environment greatly improved
Over the past 30 years, the living environment of farmers in our province has been further improved, and has been gradually transformed from meeting the basic needs of living to paying attention to the living environment, quality of housing, indoor decoration and ancillary facilities. 2008 per capita consumption expenditure on housing for farmers in the province amounted to RMB 530.7 yuan, an increase of RMB 374.2 yuan compared with that of 1980, with an average annual growth rate of 11.8%. Growth of 11.8%, per capita housing area from 9.1 square meters in 1980 to 21.2 square meters, an increase of 12.1 square meters, the per capita value of housing reached 6676 yuan, 108 yuan than in 1980, an increase of 60.8 times.
(4) Rapid growth in transportation and communication consumption
Over the past 30 years, the province's rural transportation and communication network has taken shape due to the large amount of funds invested by the state in the construction of transportation roads and communication networks. The personal means of transportation used by rural residents for travel has developed from the earliest bicycles and motorcycles to the present motorized vehicles or family cars; the means of communication for rural residents has also undergone fundamental changes from telegrams and letters to telephones, cell phones and networks.In 2008, the per capita expenditure on transportation and communication of rural households in the province was RMB 356 yuan, representing an average annual increase of 28.9% compared with that in 1980.In 2008, the Every 100 rural peasant families in our province owned 68 telephones, 126 mobile telephones, 60 motorcycles, 69 bicycles, and 0.38 cars for domestic use. All these changes show that farmers' consumption concepts are gradually changing with the development of the times, and more and more rural households have the conditions and ability to enjoy the convenience and speed brought by the current transportation and communication tools.
(5) Modernization of consumer durables into the farming community, the old "four pieces" basically fade out
30 years, rural residents in the life of one of the most significant changes is reflected in the continuous upgrading of consumer durables. From the 80's bicycle, sewing machine, clocks and radios "old four" to the 90's color TV, refrigerator, washing machine and VCR "new four". And into the twenty-first century, "the old four" in addition to bicycles has basically faded out of the historical stage; "new four" in the VCR has been replaced by the DVD player, color TV, refrigerators, washing machines are also accelerating the replacement of; and higher technological content of the microwave ovens, DVD players, Video cameras, home computers and other modern home appliances are gradually entering the farmers' homes.
3. The degree of comprehensive rural well-being has reached more than 50%
Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward the grand goal of realizing a comprehensively affluent society in 2020, the construction of a comprehensively affluent society in rural areas of the province has been able to push forward at a relatively fast speed, and the degree of comprehensive rural well-being in the province reached 49.1% in 2007, which is 35.5 percentage points higher than that of the 13.6% of the 2002 level. By 2007, the degree of realization of comprehensive rural well-being had reached 49.1%, an increase of 35.5 percentage points over the 13.6% achieved in 2002. According to the main indexes related to the testing of well-offness such as disposable income per capita of peasants, the proportion of labor force in the primary industry, the coverage rate of rural cooperative medical care, the Gini coefficient of rural residents, the Engel coefficient, and the index of quality of residence, etc., it is indisputable that the degree of realization of comprehensive well-offness of the rural areas of the province was more than 50% in 2008, that is to say, it took the province eight years to go over half of the way of constructing a comprehensively well-off society. The first is that it is not a good idea to have a good time, but it is a good idea to have a good time.
Over the past 60 years, the lives of urban and rural residents in our province have changed dramatically. Under the leadership of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, we are striving for development, livelihood and stability, and our future life will be even better!