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About 20 millions of people in China own cars now

According to a survey by Anto Association of China , Chinese citizens owned about 20 millions of cars at the end of 2006.

What does this data mean?

This data means that at least 60 millions of ordinary people in China have become middle class .

The definition of middle class in China is that people can buy houses and cars. Take big cities for example the price of a house or an apartment with 85 square meter is about 600,000 Yuan (US 70,000 dollars) and the price of a car in China is about 100,000 Yuan(US 12,000 dollars),people whose income per year reach to 70,000 Yuan (US 8,500 dollars)can afford to buy a house and a car.

If we add huge amount of most of communist officials who account for about 10 percent of population into this middle class group, now middle class in China can reach to 190 millions of people which means that about 20 percent of population in China have become middle calss since the beginning of economic reforms in 1979.Although these huge amount of communist officials are mostly corrupted, this is a great achievement in Chinese history.

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