eh~~~~~~~~~I am not sure of this, Chinese like rest money to bank not just because China don't have a good system of assurance medical. Chinese like make plan for the whole life even for something after death........some character determine what we will do......majority of us won't cost all the money we have even after assurance medical is perfect........
"China consumers to overtake U.S."is real a looooooooooong way to go....
I think they mean the aggregate Chinese consumer market compared to the total U.S. consumer market.
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"According to Credit Suisse, Chinas private consumption which accounted for 5.4% of global private consumption in 2007 is expected to increase to 21.4% in 2020, overtaking the US to become the worlds largest consumer market.
The expansion of the Chinese consumer market has led to the expansion of the import market.
In 2008, Chinas imports amounted to 1 trillion 73.9 billion US dollars, accounting for 7.1% of the global import market. According to Global Insight,
China will overtake the US in the global import market from 2016 and is expected to account for 20% of the global import market after 2020, providing a much larger market than the one that the US has provided thus far.
Chapter 2: Chinas consumption map as seen through import statistics
1. Chinas import volume of consumer goods
Chinas import of consumer goods has increased since 2005 and surpassed 30 billion dollars in 2006. Since then, consumer goods import has continued to rapidly grow despite the global economic crisis. It reached 48. 8 billion dollars in 2008, a 23.2 % increase year-on-year compared to 42. 8 billion dollars in 2007. Although consumer goods import only account for around 4% of Chinas total imports, in terms of size, it surpasses Koreas total export to the US which stands at 46.4 billion dollars. It is also equivalent to 11.6% of Koreas total export (422 billion dollars) and Koreas total export to the ASEAN market (49.3 billion dollars)
Imports from the EU, US and Japanthe worlds three largest producers of high-end consumer goodsaccount for 56.4% of Chinas total imports. From January to August of 2008, consumer goods import from the EU, US,ß and Japan recorded around 19.97 billion dollars, a 48.3% year-on-year increase. Based on the characteristics of imported consumer goods in China, the most popular categories were in the order of food, automobile, durable consumer goods and non-durable consumer goods. By item (HS 4 Unit), automobiles, mobile phones, and computers were major import items.
Improvements in the quality of life of the Chinese people have led to increases in imports of dishwashers, kitchen goods, and sporting goods. In addition, when looking at the type of consumer goods largely imported by different provinces,
food and durable consumer goods took up the lions share in the coastal areas while non-durable consumer goods and automobiles took up a large share in the inland areas."