When CCTV make complaints about Chinese street in the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, he said he was sorry again. Suddenly, how many people are sighing: This is my heart! I am one of them. This sentence contains how much helplessness and sadness.
What has happened to the RMB? Far from it, let's start with 2000. The exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar was 8.27 in early 2000 and 6.12 in early 2013, with an external appreciation of nearly 26%. The house price near the second ring road in Beijing was about 6000 yuan per square meter in early 2000 and 40000 yuan per square meter in early 2013, up 6.7 times; The house price of a small city in the middle of my hometown was 400 yuan per square meter in early 2000, and the latest opening price in 2013 was 3500 yuan, up nearly 9 times.
The gross national product (GDP) was about 9900 billion at the end of 2000 and 52000 billion at the end of 2012, an increase of 5.25 times; The total amount of RMB was about 13250 billion at the end of 2000 and exceeded 1000000 billion at the beginning of 2013, an increase of 7.55 times; The ratio was 1.34 in 2000 and 1.92 in early 2013. China's existing foreign exchange reserves exceed US $3.3 trillion and holds US Treasury bonds of more than US $1.2 trillion.
What do these figures mean? First, the RMB appreciated by more than a quarter. To put it simply, a foreigner invested in China by exchanging $100 for RMB in 2000. He did nothing. At the beginning of 2013, he could change back more than $125, and $25 was the wealth he took away from China. Secondly, the RMB depreciates internally. How much has the RMB depreciated in China? According to online news, if compared with house prices, the current purchasing power of RMB is one seventh of that in 2000; A more credible argument is that the depreciation is close to 50%; If the ratio of money stock to GDP is used, the depreciation will also reach more than 43%.
The dual pressure of domestic devaluation and foreign exploitation is on the Chinese people. That's why people feel more pressure on their lives while their income is increasing. It's not surprising or excessive to say "RMB is sorry for the Chinese people".
The achievements of reform and opening up, the improvement of infrastructure, the take-off of economic aggregate and the improvement of people's living standards have attracted the attention of the world.
However, the problems can not be ignored. First of all, there is a serious lack of fairness in the initial distribution. This unfairness is reflected in the regional differences between the East, the middle and the west, the differences in the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, the differences between the state monopolized industries such as power, finance and oil and other industries, and the differences in the management and other employees of state power departments, government agencies, enterprises and institutions. The salary growth of the vast majority of employees did not keep up with the speed of economic development, and the income growth did not keep up with the pace of price rise. The obvious manifestation of people's dissatisfaction with this is their doubt and negation of the official data such as average wage and average income.
Secondly, the construction of people's livelihood is seriously divorced from economic development. The ultimate goal of economic construction should be to meet the people's growing material needs, improve the people's production and living conditions, and improve the people's living standards. In a word, economic construction should make the people's lives more and more satisfied and happy. However, over the past few decades, the people's opinions on people's livelihood have become greater and greater. It is generally believed that they can't afford to read books, buy houses, see diseases and raise old people. Why? It is because our economic construction deviated from its ultimate goal, did not let the people enjoy the fruits of reform and opening up, and did not let the people feel the benefits of economic development.
The people's cognitive level is improving, the requirements for the rulers are improving, and the pace of reform obviously lags behind the requirements of the people. How to break the monopoly of interest groups, hand over more interests to the people, truly realize a harmonious society and realize the commitment of "let every Chinese live a happy and dignified life" is an unavoidable and urgent problem to be solved, and it is also a major problem that determines the life and death of the ruling party!
All our work should start from serving the people and end in serving the people. Economic construction should first address the urgent needs of the people, increase investment in people's livelihood, improve the income level of the people, reduce the pressure of life, make the RMB worthy of the Chinese people, and let the Chinese people no longer sigh helplessly and bitterly for the RMB! Let the life of the Chinese people be truly happy and beautiful!