为什么中国人均GDP这么低？ [美国媒体]

Why China's GDP per capita is so low?

为什么中国人均GDP这么低？


 
Shuo Yang, Coding peasant and civil economist
Answered Mar 10, 2015
It is due to the currency exchange rate of RMB.
China's RMB is under-estimated. But the government won't let it appreciate too much, why?
because China is a huge country,  there are a lot of industries which are equivalent to those in developed nations. But there are still a lot of low-level factories or companies, whose functionality is mainly to provide jobs. 

因为人民币的汇率。
中国人民币被低估了，但是政府不想让人民币升值太多，为什么？因为中国是个巨大的国家，有很多产业可以比肩发达国家，但是依然有很多低端工厂或企业，他们的主要功能就是提供就业。



Infrastructure: China has very good and modern infrastructure. For example, I have been to some developed nations, and I notice the 3G/4G coverage/quality is just so so. But in China, even in remote villages, mobile network coverage is still good.

4、基建：中国有非常优良而现代的基建。比如，我去过某些发达国家，发现他们的3G和4G覆盖/质量很一般。但是在中国，即使是偏远山村，移动网络覆盖依然很好。
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Cheap local brand consumer electrical/electronic goods. Although many Chinese don't earn as much as those in developed nations. They can still afford good modern products like TV/fridge/air-conditioner/furniture, blabla. These products are with high CP value. But people from developed nations are not so well-informed about this and they have to spend a lot more on international brands. A good example is Xiaomi, or OnePlus, which have gained international recognition for high CP value. But they are rare cases, there are so many Chinese products are with high CP value but not well known in the world. So Chinese have the advantages. And a lot of industrial products are made in China, so Chinese consumers can buy them with cheaper price than other countries which have to import these products from China.

5、廉价的本土消费电子和电器产品。虽然中国人收入没有发达国家多。但是还是买得起良好的现代产品，比如电视冰箱空调家具等等。这些产品性价比很高。但是发达国家的人对此不怎么了解，所以他们花更多钱购买国际品牌。小米或者一加就是个好例子，因为性价比高而得到了国际承认。但是他们是稀有的例子，还有很多良好的中国产品不为世界所知。所以中国人有优势。很多工业产品都是中国制造，所以中国消费者可以更低的价格购买，其他国家从中国进口所以价格更高。

Nick Tsui, A native of Nanjing, China.
Answered Sep 21
China in general is still an under-developed country. Here is a China GDP-per-Capita (nominal) map based on geographic distribution in 2014 (source: File:GDP per capita of Chinese provinces.PNG)
You can see the majority of China is very poor comparing to US, western Europe, Japan, and even eastern Europe (I believe it should be “USD” instead of “USS” in the figure above).
I am from Nanjing, belonging to the historically and still the wealthiest Yangtze delta region (Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou) in China, However, our GDP per Capita (Nanjing ~ $22,000 nominal source: 2017 Top 50 Chinese Cities’ GDP nominal per capita Raw Data Compiling) is just about to match eastern Europe (Czech, Poland, Slovenia, or Portugal).
Yes of course there are other factors such as currency exchange rate, but those are minor comparing to “really being poor”.

中国总体上依然还是个欠发达国家。比起美国，西欧，日本，甚至是东欧，绝大部分的中国依然很穷。我来自南京，位于最富有的长三角地区（上海，南京，杭州），然而我们的人均GDP只相当于东欧（捷克，波兰，斯洛文尼亚和葡萄牙）。是的，也有其他因素，比如汇率，但是这些都是小因素，归根结底还是因为穷。



The answer is due to China's size, and the fact the country is not developing homogeneously.  Though the cities on the eastern coast are quite developed, there are still vast areas of inland China that are still poor.  So basically all the exciting stuff comes from the developed part of country, and once you factor in the undeveloped part, you have this average-low number for GDP per capita.
答案在于中国的规模，以及中国各个地区发展不平衡。虽然东部沿海相当发达，依然有大片内陆地区很贫穷。所以人均GDP自然就没那么高了。