To now be deemed impoverished, a person must make less than 1, 196 yuan a year.
Abolishing the agricultural tax has saved the average peasant around 100 yuan a year.
With a rate of 218 yuan a night, occupancy is over 90% throughout the year.
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The state news agency, Xinhua, says that elsewhere the medicine sells for 680 yuan a gram.
The survey shows that on average, recipients of the government's basic rural pension receive just 720 yuan a year.
He makes a maximum of 4, 000 yuan a month, but an apartment for his wife and two children will cost about 250 times that amount.
That's a substantial amount but not yet a deep-enough pool to attract the big global investors that would make the yuan a truly international currency.
Her 61-year-old sister, on the other hand, still lives in the neighbouring province of Hebei, where she collects a meagre pension of 80 yuan a month.
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"Testing each pig costs more than 100 million yuan a year, but it shows a more responsible attitude to the health of our consumers, " Mr. Wan told the newspaper.
Residents would have to spend at least 100 yuan a month - a significant percentage of their salaries - commuting to work every day from the apartments' far-flung location.
China's total social financing, a broader measurement of credit, jumped to 7.9 trillion yuan in the first four months of the year, up from 4.85 trillion yuan a year earlier.
And a few years ago, a new development was announced nearby: the Garden of Monet villas, asking from 4 million yuan for a 2, 030-square-foot town house to 30 million yuan for a 6, 650-square-foot villa.
Next year, fees at Dagucheng's primary school (200 yuan a year) are supposed to be abolished as part of a nationwide campaign to eliminate them in the countryside for the first nine years of education.
Instead, taxis are allowed to charge a few extra yuan as a fuel surcharge, but the meter stays the same.
However, a yuan appreciation with a lower dollar might mean a spike in all other Asian currencies as well like the Singapore dollar.
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Beijing is undertaking a long, gradual campaign to establish the yuan as a more market-oriented, international currency.
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In another office, an erstwhile private lender has gone for a completely different sort of business, investing 10m yuan in a TV spy caper set during the Japanese occupation.
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In June, outstanding loans amounted to only 11 billion yuan, giving banks a yuan loan-to-deposit ratio of just 2%.
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The fact of the matter is that there is no good evidence that a higher yuan necessarily equals a lower trade deficit.
The money has built up because of a surge in inflows of foreign cash that also has pushed the yuan to a record high this week.
Many see dim sum bonds as one of a number of developments that will ultimately lead to the internationalization of the yuan as a global reserve currency.
Its job is greatly complicated by its desire to maintain a pegged currency: buying dollars at the fixed rate of 8.3 yuan creates a lot of extra liquidity that it then struggles to mop up.
Companies, according to the report, will be eligible for listing if they have a market capitalization of at least 30 billion yuan and have a combined net profit of at least 3 billion yuan in the three years preceding the listing.
Liang said Sany plans to increase its total sales to 300 billion yuan within a decade.
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Beyond the PBOC, Chinese policymakers do not see the yuan as a tool to manage inflation.
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This is an expensive device, so instead they discussed how to spend some hundred yuan on a shanzhai handset.
But it would be perfectly possible to re-peg the yuan at a higher parity, keeping capital controls for the time being.
The Hong Kong bond issue is one of the early steps China has taken to establish the yuan as a global standard.
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