2011-04-09

China to hike the poverty line

谁是中国的穷人, or, Who are China's poor?
在2010年国家统计局统计公报中,这条线划在了年均纯收入1274元,按此计算,年末贫困人口为2688万。日前,中国扶贫开发协会执行副会长林嘉騋在接受《人民日报》海外版采访时表示,今年的贫困线或将上调至1500元,贫困人口总数“再回到九千多万甚至上亿都有可能”。“中国有上亿穷人”,这一事实并不令人惊讶。对照世界其他国家,中国政府发布的贫困线标准一直被认为严重偏低,导致不少人“被脱贫”。国务院总理温家宝就曾公开表示,如果按照国际标准计算,中国仍有1.5亿贫困人.
Google Translate version (edited due to glaring translation errors):
National Bureau of Statistics 2010 communique, the line drawn in the average annual net income 1274 yuan, the figure was 26.88 million at the end of poverty. Recently, the China Association of Poverty Alleviation and Development, executive vice president of Chia-mare to accept the "People's Daily " Overseas Edition interview that this year's poverty line or will be raised to 1,500 yuan, the total number of poor people "go back more than ninety million or even 100 million Are possible. ""China has over 100 hundred million poor ", a fact not surprising. Control of other countries, the Chinese government's poverty line has always been considered a serious low, resulting in a lot of people "were out of poverty. " Premier Wen Jiabao had said publicly that, according to international standards, China still has 150 million poor people.

如此悬殊的差异使得中美两国穷人的生活基本不具备可比性。根据两位美国学者的研究,在美国政府定义的穷人家庭中,46%已购买并拥有自己的房子,他们平均每家有一个门厅、三个睡房、一个半浴室、一个车库;73%的家庭拥有汽车,其中近三分之一有两台或以上的汽车;美国穷人的孩子,不仅没有营养不良问题,而且他们获得的营养物质和中产阶级家庭的孩子一样,都超过了需要的标准,乃至普遍超重。

但在中国,贫困线之下的人们是真正的绝对贫穷。一些国际比较的研究结果显示,与其他国家相比,中国的贫困线标准几乎是世界最低的。2011-2015年,越南农村贫困户标准为人均年收入480万越南盾以下,折合人民币约1500元,而2010年越南人均GDP为1162美元,仅是中国的四分之一。

因此有人提出,中国的贫困线更应该叫“活命线”。北京大学政府管理学院教授顾昕就认为:“可以断言,生活在我国低收入标准之下的民众,都处于绝对贫困甚至赤贫的状态;而生活在贫困标准之下的民众,应该处于极端赤贫的状态。”
Google Translate version:
This disparity between the two countries makes the basic life of the poor are not comparable. According to two American scholars, the definition of the U.S. government in poor families, 46% have purchased and have their own house, they average house has a foyer, three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, a garage; 73% families have cars, of which nearly one-third have two or more cars; American poor children, not only did not malnutrition, and their access to nutrients and middle-class children, more than the required standard, even the generally overweight.

But in China, people below the poverty line is the real absolute poverty. International comparative study showed that compared with other countries, China's poverty line is almost lowest in the world. 2011-2015, the Vietnamese standard of rural poor households to 4.8 million VND per capita income below RMB 1500 yuan, and GDP per capita in 2010 was $ 1,162 in Vietnam, only a quarter of China.

It was thus that China's poverty line, more should be called "survival line." School of Government, Peking University, Professor Gu Xin to think: "It is certain that standards of living under the low-income people in our country, are in a state of absolute poverty or extreme poverty; and standard of living below the poverty population, extreme poverty should be at the extreme the state. "

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