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New York's public pport and products and services related to artificial and intellectual property rights are much more expensive than Beijing.

Recently, a price comparison between China and the United States has been widely reprinted: China eats 30 yuan of Kentucky Fried Chicken at a minimum of 100 yuan, buys a Levi "S400 yuan", buys a car at least 30000 yuan (Xia Li), the United States, eats a Kentucky Fried Chicken 4 dollars, goes to the restaurant 40 US dollars, buys the Levi "S20 dollar", buys the vehicle most 30000 dollars (BMW).

The comparison of prices between China and the United States has attracted many netizens' participation.

Is the price of China really higher than that of the United States? In order to accurately and accurately compare the price level between China and the United States, the reporter interviewed Patrick, who was born in Washington and now lives in New York, and Huang Xin, who was born in Heilongjiang and now works in Beijing.

Through the figures provided by them, and collecting relevant information from the market, starting from all aspects of consumption, such as clothing, food, housing and consumption, the price level of China and the United States is compared intuitively and comprehensively.

Comparison shows that if ordinary consumer goods are foreign brands, Beijing is indeed slightly more expensive than New York.

According to the data provided by Patrick and Huang Xin, the average Levi 's jeans, Beijing sells for 699 - 899 yuan, and New York sells for 70 - 90 dollars (about 455 - 585 yuan).

It is hard to compare discount sales factors.

"These international brands are indeed more expensive.

In fact, in addition to the brand consumption in the shopping mall, in Beijing, you can also go to the wholesale market like the zoo to find cheap and inexpensive clothes, and the price is less than half of the market.

"Huang Xin said.

It is worth noting that some "made in China" consumer goods tend to sell at a higher price in China than in the US.

Gao Peiyong, director of the finance and Trade Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "this is actually related to the tax structure of our country. Our tax revenue is mainly based on value-added tax, business tax and consumption tax, while the western countries are mainly direct taxes, such as personal tax, property tax and inheritance tax.

"As long as commodities enter China's circulation, they will be subject to tax increases at various levels.

In addition, China's logistics costs are relatively high, and will eventually be superimposed on the price of goods.

As for foreign goods deemed to be "luxury" by Chinese people, its selling price in China is even more expensive.

Price has always been a phenomenon of "internal and external differences".

"Prestige pricing" and "differential pricing" adopted by foreign luxury enterprises are one of the important reasons for the wide spread of price gap at home and abroad.

Professor Zhu Mingxia of the University of foreign trade and Economics said.

"Prestige pricing" is aimed at consumers' "high quality and high quality" mentality, and sets high prices for products that have certain prestige and high reputation in the minds of consumers.

Differential pricing is based on the willingness of customers to make different prices in different markets.

It is precisely the consumer psychology that has caught the domestic consumers' worship of foreign countries, and foreign dealers have deliberately increased their retail prices in the Chinese market.

City public pport and products and services related to artificial and intellectual property rights are much more expensive in New York.

For office workers, pportation expenses are essential.

The cost of public pport, such as bus and subway, is about 10 times that of Beijing.

New York is more expensive than Beijing in terms of consumption of manual services.

Patrick said, "in New York, I need 20 to 40 dollars for my haircut, but in Beijing, a few dollars in the school is enough.

"Overall, the price of barber in New York is more than 5 times that of Beijing.

If there is no medical insurance, the price of medical services in New York is higher than that in Beijing.

For example, a cold treatment once, New York's price is more than 2 times that of Beijing.

Huang Xin said: "a serious cold to go to the hospital, one of the more than 200 yuan, if the needle needs about 500 yuan.

"Patrick said," in New York, it takes about 150 dollars (about 960 yuan) for a doctor to see a cold.

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New York is much more expensive than Beijing.

Beijing sent to the whole country for the first time about 15 yuan, Huang Xin said: "express is really cheap and convenient, not to mention that many of the online shopping are free delivery, that is to send things between friends, are lazy to run, spend seven or eight yuan to make a city express.

"Patrick said," it takes about 10 to 20 dollars to express in New York to other cities.

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In the United States, products and services related to intellectual property rights are much more expensive than books in China, such as books, audio-visual products, photocopying, etc.

In America books are reused frequently because books are more expensive.

Huang Xin recalls that when he was an exchange student in the United States, "one copy was 1 dollars, and he could not copy the whole book."

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The State Department's labor department website posted a minimum wage of 4.1 to 8.67 dollars in each state.

China's Ministry of human resources and Social Security announced the minimum hourly wage in Beijing in the first quarter of this year, which is 13 yuan, which is already higher than that in other parts of the country. However, there is a considerable gap between the minimum wage and the minimum regional standards in the United States.

It can also be explained that in the US market, even if the same product is made, the price that the United States manufactures is usually about 1 times higher than that of the overseas foundry.

There are still many misconceptions about price comparison between China and the US.

However, experts believe that there is a big difference in the price structure between Beijing and New York in terms of economic structure and income level. The price comparison between two cities is very convincing and easy to cause misunderstanding.

First of all, the differences between China and the US in tax structure and mode of taxation are quite different, resulting in a big gap between the price tag of the market and the actual payment of consumers.

For example, the price of the American shopping center is bare price, and the price of our country is the tax price.

Take the clothing brand Levi s jeans as an example.

The official website of classic No. 501 in China is priced at 799 yuan, priced at US $64 - $98 on the official website of the United States, and it needs to pay 3% to 9% of the consumption tax.

That is to say, the jeans that seem to be much cheaper than New York in Beijing shopping mall are actually not very large from the market price in Beijing.

Second, it is not reasonable to compare the US discount price with the domestic price.

Why can you buy super low priced Levi "s Jeans" in the US? "I bought $21 Levi" s "in outlets.

Because I am rather thin and old, I can not wear the same size. Finally, dealing with the sale is certainly cheap.

"Xiao Yang, a student studying in the United States, said.

Therefore, the difference between the US discount price and the positive price in China is certainly enlarged.

Finally, we are not necessarily comparing the same thing. It is difficult for us to choose a completely comparable object.

Take the maximum cost of living for young people as an example. In the neighborhood with better environment in China World Trade Center, Beijing, the rent of a house is around 5000 yuan / month, while in the suburbs one thousand or two thousand yuan can rent a living room.

If we compare the rent in different districts of Beijing and New York, it is obviously not scientific.

Even in a lot of areas, it is difficult to determine whether the housing age, decoration, pportation, supporting facilities and other conditions are similar.

Experts remind us that in comparison between Chinese and American prices, people often compare consumer goods, such as fashion clothes, leather goods bags, electronic products, etc.

Most of these luxury consumer goods are priced at a higher price in the domestic market than in the US.

But few people compare education, books, audio-visual, artificial services and so on, and these products and services are much more expensive in China than in the United States.

Although many Chinese tourists shop abroad for a long time, they do not live in the United States for a long time, so it is difficult to fully feel the price level of the United States.

Price "catching up with the Premier League" stems from inflation worries

The so-called "two leaves in the world are not exactly the same", any comparison may have great limitations.

Due to the disparity in economic structure, tax system and residents' income, the price level of a commodity in Beijing and New York is very difficult to truly reflect the overall price level of the two places and consumers' overall feelings about the current price.

Price is only a signal reflecting the relationship between supply and demand.

Recently, some consumers are paying special attention to price problems at home and abroad. Some people even believe that the price level of our country has been "catching up with the Premier League" according to the price gap of some consumer goods.

In fact, this is just an emotion, a concern about high inflation, not necessarily the fact itself.

The huge gap between residents' income and purchasing power in China and the United States determines that China's overall price level is bound to be relatively low.

How to relieve consumers' worries about rising prices and the life pressure of low-income people? First of all, we should continue to manage inflation expectations, and market regulators should really regard the overall level of stabilizing prices as the primary task of macroeconomic regulation and control.

Secondly, we need to do everything possible to increase the income of residents and effectively raise the level of income and subsidy for those low-income groups.

Fundamentally speaking, only when the income growth of the middle and low income people outperforms CPI, prices will not become the hot topic of people's livelihood.