Urbanites in China's capital earned 18,344 yuan (2,352 U.S. dollars) per-capita in disposable income in the first 11 months of the year, a growth of 13.6 percent from the same period of last year.

According to the municipal bureau of statistics, the growth rate was 0.9 percentage points higher than the year-earlier level.

The quicker growth was partly due to a pay rise in some governmental departments and non-profit-making institutions.

Thanks to a robust domestic capital market, their per-capita non-salary income, including inheritance and gains from equity market, averaged 248 yuan (32 U.S. dollars), up 42.4 percent, the bureau said.

Between January and November, rural dwellers in the city had their per-capita cash income increase by 10.8 percent to 9,125 yuan (1,170 U.S. dollars). But the growth rate inched down 0.1 percentage points from a year earlier, the bureau added.

National statistics show that city dwellers in China had 8,799 yuan of disposable income per-capita, and rural residents, 2,762 yuan, in the first three quarters of the year.

Source: Xinhua