The Gini coefficient measures income equality on a scale from zero to one. The higher the number the greater the inequality. Over the past five years incomes have become slightly more equal, while 2015 was the peak year.
0.5
0.45
0.4
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
More unequal
More equal
Households have bought more goods such as motorbikes and fridges as incomes have risen.
Urban
Rural
Ownership per 100 households at year end
Refrigerator
?
Television
?
Mobile phone
?
Washing machine
?
Air conditioner
?
Motorcycle
?
China’s coastal regions have been graded 1-4 with one being the best, two being appropriate for bathing and four being the most polluted. Water quality can score below grade four.
Yellow Sea
Bohai Sea
East China Sea
South China Sea
0
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
< Grade 4
Air pollution has dogged the industrial powerhouse over the past five years, but Premier Li Keqiang announced early in 2017 plans to curb bring smog under control.
Beijing
Shanghai
Guangzhou
?
10 μg/m3
PM2.5China source
10 μg/m3
PM2.5US source
25 μg/m3
PM10
100 μg/m3
O3
Particulates (PM2.5 and PM10) data refer to annual averages apart while Ozone (O3) is an 8-hour maximum. O3 data was published in 2013 as a multiple of the 8-hour maximum limit of 100 micrograms per cubic metre.
Since a manufacturing slump in the wake of the global financial crisis, the service sector, or tertiary industry, has become the main driver of GDP growth.
China's GDP
in yuan
Primary
industries
industries
5.2%
4.6%
Secondary
industries
industries
49.9%
41.6%
Tertiary
industries
industries
44.9%
53.7%