Reprint/dig number
In recent days, I accidentally found this old magazine from 1999 on the Internet. It
used Hangzhou as a city sample to investigate the household income and expenditure of Hangzhou in the 1990s. When I read it, I felt like I walked into a time machine and traveled back to 23 Years ago, some data are extracted below.
Taking 1995 as an example, the average annual salary of an employee in Hangzhou was 7,156 yuan, or 596 yuan a month.
How much money did Chinese earn in a month in the 1990s? A set of data takes you to understand the consumption situation in
the 1990s and the streets of Hangzhou in the 1990s
The average annual salary of various industries is also divided. The data is from 1998. The red box is
the health, sports and social welfare industries with the highest income and the top three with the highest income. The equivalent monthly salary is 1289 yuan. 598 yuan.
It also subdivided the average annual wages of enterprises and institutions in Hangzhou. It was the same as the Municipal Health Bureau with the highest income in 1998,
which was equivalent to a monthly salary of 1,467 yuan, and the lowest in Hangzhou Silk Holding Company, with a monthly salary of 520 yuan. Squeeze your head.
The magazine also counted the number of high-end durable goods owned by urban households in that era, and intercepted several data to see what people pursued in that era, including
fans, washing machines, refrigerators, and color TVs. On average, each household had 1 In the era of air conditioners, there were only 81 units per 100 households, and there were only 62 and 40 cameras and video recorders. The latter two can now be replaced by a mobile phone. It was not until 2000 that the world's first A mobile phone with a camera.
Take the data of the air conditioner in 1998 and compare it with the data in 18 years:
1998: 81 units per 100 households
2018: 142 units per 100 households
2018 data from:
http://www.ce.cn/cysc/newmain/yc/jsxw/202007/30/t20200730_35426293.shtml
This is the logic behind the rise in the performance of home appliance companies in the past 20 years.
Prices and house prices
How much money did Chinese earn in a month in the 1990s? A set of data shows you the consumption situation in the 1990s
Source: http://finance.people.com.cn/n/2012/0718/c70846-18544223.html
According to this conversion, the average salary of 7,156 yuan a year in Hangzhou can buy 1,502 catties of pork, or 23,614 catties of rice.
Compared with modern times, it is found that the average annual salary of employees in non-private units in Hangzhou in 2020 is 128,308 yuan
Data source:
http://tjj.hangzhou.gov.cn/art/2021/7/16/art_1229279240_3900405.html
In 2020, the price of pork is about 25 yuan per catty, and the price of rice is about 3 yuan per catty. For 128,308 yuan, you can buy 5,132 catties of pork, or 42,769 catties of rice.
1991 Shanghai Vegetable Market
Electrical appliances
Color TVs in the 1990s were roughly equivalent to today’s mobile phones. The price of a color TV in the 1990s was around 3,000 yuan.
Data source:
http://www.eeq8.com/sj/xixvunwiwkukwwexucikwnujecjyuyibweukwwwcuyevwb/
Today, the price of a mobile phone is also around 3,000 yuan. In the 1990s, the average annual salary could only buy 2.4 color TVs, but now the average salary can buy 42 mobile phones.
Family sitting around watching TV in the 90s
Post a paragraph of netizens posting the price list of electrical appliances bought in the 1990s:
The K29 Sony color TV bought in January 1995, the price is 10,600 yuan;
358 Jinsong washing machine bought in January 1995, the price is 2280 yuan;
Panasonic fax machine bought in June 1994, the price is 5300 yuan;
The J09NV Mitsubishi brand air conditioner bought in June 1997, the price is 6400 yuan;
Data source:
https://hznews.hangzhou.com.cn/shehui/content/2019-07/22/content_7231014.htm
It seems that compared to the 1990s, life is really much better today, and there is a lot of surplus in basic daily necessities and consumer goods.
After talking about basic materials, talk about the source of all evil - the house
Let's take a look at the prices of houses in the 1990s and find a paragraph:
In the 1990s, housing prices in Zhanjiang, Guangdong skyrocketed wildly. In 1993, Longji Building, the former developer of the World Trade Center, and Taixin Plaza, the former developer of China World Trade Center, were both positioned at around 3,500. But in the late 1980s, housing prices were only 200 to 400 yuan per square meter. In 1993, most people in Zhanjiang were paid between 200 and 300 yuan. An 80-square-meter house costs about 300,000 yuan. According to 300 yuan a month, the annual income is not more than 3600 yuan, and 36,000 yuan in ten years, so it would take about 80 years to buy a house at that time without eating or drinking.
However, since 1994, housing prices in Zhanjiang began to plummet, and by 1996 it dropped to more than 2,000 yuan. In 1996, a businessman surnamed Wang purchased two 80-square-meter commercial houses in Hehua Village, Xiashan District, Zhanjiang City, each costing about 160,000 yuan. He was very cheap at the time, but the house prices kept falling. By 2000, most of the house prices were between 1,000 and 1,300 yuan/square meter, and the house price in Mazhang District, Zhanjiang City even fell to 800 yuan/square meter.
Source:
http://www.guandian.cn/article/20111129/116107.html
Commercial housing in the 1990s
It turns out that housing prices experienced a sharp drop in the 1990s. I also checked the data to find out. For example, in the above data, the housing prices in Zhanjiang plummeted from 3,500 yuan per flat in 1993 to 1,000-1,300 yuan per flat in 2000, and fell by 65% in 7 years, which is a bit scary.
According to the materials, the salary of Zhanjiang people in 1993 was between 200-300 yuan, 250 yuan per month, 3,000 yuan a year, and the house price was 3,500 yuan per square meter, and the annual salary could buy 0.85 square meters, which was after the skyrocketing housing prices.
The housing price of 1000-1300 in 2000 is 1150 yuan per square meter. The average annual salary is calculated by the ratio of Hangzhou in the above magazine. The salary in 1998 is 2.4 times that of 1993, that is, 3000 yuan * 2.4 = 7200 yuan.
(Use the salary of 1998 to offset the salary of 2000)
, then one year's salary can buy a house of 7200/1150= 6.2 square meters.
What about now? Taking Guangzhou, where I live, as an example, the average annual salary in Guangzhou in 2020 is 130,110 yuan.
Data source:
https://www.sohu.com/a/485876993_120179484
The average housing price in Guangzhou
can be bought with a salary of 130110/45684 = 2.8 square meters in one year, which is not comparable to that in 2000, but it is still better than that in 1993.
However, it can’t be compared like this. In 1993, commercial housing was not just needed. Many enterprises and institutions in cities and towns had separate housing. I remember that my family lived in the dormitory of the hospital at that time. Basically no room.
(My parents are hospital workers)
At the end of the article, I ask a question of the soul, are you willing to let go of your existing material life and return to the 1990s? I was born in that era. In my impression, my childhood was very happy, and my parents’ generation didn’t seem to have as many troubles as I am now. "Go back in that way.
Your answer is? See you in the comments section.