Chinese urban residents' income up 9.5 percent

The disposable income per capita of China's urban residents reached 5,374 yuan (650 US dollars) in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent, says a report released here by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Wednesday.

The per capita cash income of farmers had a real increase of 12.5 percent to 1,586 yuan (192 dollars) for the first half year, up 1.6 and 0.8 percentage points, respectively, from a year earlier.

According to an earlier NBS report, the January-March per capita disposable income of urban residents stood at 2,938 yuan (355 dollars), a year-on-year rise of 11.3 percent.

In the three months, the per capita cash income of rural residents reached 967 yuan (117 dollars), an increase of 15.9 percent, or 11.9 percent in real terms.

Source: Xinhua