Xinjiang Residents' Consumption Survey: Bright Spot, Great Potential

"Now my monthly income of more than 3000 yuan, 900 yuan is used to buy clothes, 700 yuan for eating, private cars oil and maintenance costs at least 600 yuan, badminton and equipment must be spent 400 yuan per week, buy books and other flowers 200 yuan."

In August 7th, Lu Liya, a middle school teacher in Urumqi, exposed her monthly consumer book to reporters.

In addition to eating, using, and other basic living expenses and consumption, have you invested much more money and time in fitness, recharging, tourism, learning and other services, like liulia, to improve the quality of personal life.

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Sought after

In July 31st, Ren Kui and his wife were choosing long life locks in front of the DBE jewelry and gold jewelry counter at the gold ornament Department on the first floor of the friendly Parkson Shopping Center in Urumqi.

Gong Ting, the DBE cabinet director, said consumers who buy gold jewelry are mainly young people and middle-aged people, mainly using or giving away their own products.

Compared with last year, sales were slightly better this year, and sales averaged 5 million yuan in five or six.

Before the old Fengxiang counter, the citizen Li Linsheng bought a gold ring of more than 2000 yuan for his sweetheart. "Now the living conditions are good. In order to commemorate our marriage 20th anniversary, I bought a gold necklace of over 6000 yuan as a gift for my lover at the beginning of the year."

In the first half of this year, expenditure on gold and silver jewelry and ornaments increased by 23.1% in the per capita consumption of other goods and services in urban areas, followed by cosmetic and cosmetic expenses. These personal consumption has gradually become a new consumption highlight of urban residents' family life.

In Urumqi, the consumption of gold and silver jewelry has also been increasing, with the per capita year-on-year growth of 76.1%.

In the first half of this year, sales of gold, silver and jewelry in Xinjiang reached 1 billion 79 million yuan, an increase of nearly 30%, according to the data of the Commerce Department of the autonomous region.

Considering the preservation and increment of assets, many residents have increased demand for gold, silver and jewellery.

"People have more money in their pockets, and naturally pay more attention to improving the quality of life. In the positive promotion of the people's livelihood construction in the autonomous region, the policy of increasing the income of the people in Xinjiang in recent two years has been promulgated, and the income of urban and rural residents has been growing steadily, especially the continuous improvement of the urban and rural social security system in the whole region, thus increasing the number of insured persons and ensuring their standards. All these provide an important guarantee for expanding consumption, and also provide a premise and foundation for residents to expand their consumption."

National Bureau of statistics Xinjiang Survey Corps urban household survey office responsible person said.

Healthy lifestyles are popular.

On August 4th, the second Badminton Championships in Urumqi held a fierce competition from badminton clubs.

Chen Jianrong, chairman of the 1000 people badminton club from Karamay, said that when it was founded in 2008, the club was the only badminton club in Karamay at that time. Now, the badminton club in Karamay has increased to 31, with more than 50 gymnasiums.

Song Qingyu, a badminton fan, said: "now I play at least 3 or 4 times a week, and I feel more relaxed and more athletic."

In Urumqi, the expenditure of residents participating in fitness activities increased by 75% over the first half of the year. The expenditure on health appliances and sporting goods increased by 70% and 40% over the same period. Residents' consumption of nourishing health products continued to rise, and the per capita expenditure increased by 17.2% over the same period last year.

As residents' medical insurance coverage continues to expand and the services of community health centers continue to improve, residents' demand for nourishing health products increases except for fitness.

Wang Kai, a Urumqi investigation team of the National Bureau of statistics.

As people's desire to improve their quality of life is enhanced, the clothing consumption of residents is increasingly trending for fashion and individuality, paying more attention to brand and texture, making residents buy clothing.

The consumption expenditure of other clothing items has increased significantly.

The per capita clothing consumption expenditure of urban residents was 987.14 yuan, an increase of more than 20% over the same period last year.

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Quality of life continues to improve

In August 2nd, Bartle, from the Mongolian Autonomous County of Ho BX, bought the building materials for decoration in the Urumqi Hualing market. He said: "in July, the unit financing houses were handed over to the workers. In order to move in earlier, the basic decoration materials such as composite flooring, tiles, wallpaper and so on have now been spent nearly 20 thousand yuan, plus the cost of manual repair and the purchase of furniture, it is estimated that it will cost 30 thousand yuan to 40 thousand yuan."

In the first half of the year, consumption in Xinjiang increased significantly.

Among them, housing expenditure for hydropower and fuel consumption increased by 90.8% compared with the same period last year, and housing decoration expenditure increased by 106.6% over the same period last year.

The reporter understands that the growth of residential expenditure in Urumqi is mainly due to the growth of housing decoration consumption. With the continuous improvement of living conditions, the family decoration level is also rising, and the price of decoration materials and the increase of labor costs have promoted the rapid growth of decoration expenses.

Traffic and communications expenditures in the region also showed substantial growth, with per capita traffic expenditure increasing by 45.7%.

By the end of June, there were 14.87 cars per 100 households in the region, an increase of 3.1 over the previous year.

With the increasing number of family cars, the expenditure on household pportation in the whole region has increased by nearly 90% in the first half of the year, and the expenditure on vehicle fuel and spare parts has increased by 56.3%.

With the help of private cars, the radius of residents' activities expanded, and the cost of vehicle fuel consumption and parking fees and tolls increased significantly.

Engaged in Urumqi commercial and Trade City

Wang Lu, who is selling, is busy with business during the day and has to catch up with Russian training class in the evening.

Like Wang Lu, in addition to work, more and more people use their spare time to start charging learning.

Guo Tao, director of the special department of Xinjiang Kexin college, said that the business and Russian training course of Kexin college was established since its establishment in 2002. Now, the short term training course of business and Russian is most popular now. It recruits 3 to 4 students every year, with nearly four hundred people each.

In the first half of this year, the expenditure on education, culture and entertainment for urban residents was 580.67 yuan, up 11% over the same period last year.

Among them, education expenditure per capita was 255.03 yuan, an increase of 10%.

In Urumqi, the per capita consumption of books and magazines increased by 66.3% over the same period, the cost of training classes increased by more than 30%, and the rate of adult education increased by nearly 30% over the same period.