{"id":175637,"date":"2014-07-28T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=175637"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:20:44","slug":"1-chinese-one-third-national-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/07\/1-chinese-one-third-national-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"1% of Chinese Own One-Third of National Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent survey by Peking University showed that 1% of China\u2019s richest families hold more than one-third of the nation\u2019 s total wealth<\/strong><\/a>, Xinhua reports:<\/p>\n

About one percent of Chinese households own one-third of the nation’s wealth, raising concerns about income inequality in the world’s most populous country, according to a study by Peking University.<\/p>\n

Chinese households on average had a net worth of 439,000 yuan (about 71,000 US dollars) in 2012, up 17 percent from the 2010 level, the university’s Institute of Social Science Survey said Friday in its latest report on China’s livelihood development.<\/p>\n

However, income inequality rose rapidly during the period, the report said, as the top one percent of Chinese households held more than one-third of the nation’s wealth, while 25 percent of households at the bottom owned only 1 percent of the country’s property value. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jonathan Kaiman at The Guardian notes that China’s\u00a0Gini coefficient for household wealth had reportedly jumped to 0.73 by 2012<\/a><\/strong> alongside an increase in overall national wealth.<\/p>\n

[The report] says the country’s\u00a0Gini coefficient, a widely used indicator of economic inequality, has grown sharply over the past two decades.<\/p>\n

A Gini coefficient of zero represents absolute equality, while one represents absolute inequality. About 20 years ago, China’s Gini coefficient for family net wealth was 0.45,\u00a0according to the the People’s Daily website, a Communist party mouthpiece, but by 2012 it had risen to 0.73.<\/p>\n

According to some analysts, societies that have a Gini coefficient of more than 0.40\u00a0are at increased risk\u00a0of widespread social unrest.\u00a0Data from the OECD\u00a0gives the US the highest Gini coefficient in the G7, after taxes and transfers, at 0.39, followed by the UK at 0.34 and Italy at 0.32. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The extent to which economic inequality threatens social stability<\/a> in China is disputed<\/a>. Other reports have shown China’s Gini coefficient for income declining from a 2008 peak, prompting accusations that the figures had been engineered<\/a>. In any case, the figure is not a definitive or comprehensive measure of inequality<\/a>. At Bloomberg Businessweek,\u00a0Christina Larson compares China’s 1% with America’s, and finds that while China may be more unequal by some measures<\/a>, the US has an even greater percentage of\u00a0wealth concentrated in the hands of its wealthiest few<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But how do China\u2019s rich stack up against America\u2019s? The U.S. Internal Revenue Service analyzes income, not household net wealth, and in 2012, America\u2019s richest 1\u00a0percent took home\u00a019.3\u00a0percent\u00a0of household income. But incomes rose almost\u00a020\u00a0percent\u00a0for the top 1\u00a0percent, whereas they inched up just 1\u00a0percent for the bottom 99\u00a0percent.<\/p>\n

Recently, economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics\u00a0estimated\u00a0the distribution of household wealth in the U.S. They calculated \u201chow much property different strata of society owned by looking at the income that was generated by that property,\u201d as my colleague Peter Coy\u00a0reported. The richest 1\u00a0percent of Americans, they found, control 40\u00a0percent of the country\u2019s wealth, and the top 0.1\u00a0percent control more than a fifth\u2014which would mean wealth in the U.S. is still more concentrated than in China. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent survey by Peking University showed that 1% of China\u2019s richest families hold more than one-third of the nation\u2019 s total wealth, Xinhua reports: About one percent of Chinese households own one-third of the nation’s wealth, raising concerns about income inequality in the world’s most populous country, according to a study by Peking University. 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