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By YOU NUO (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-08-25 16:18

 

 

Large sporting events, let alone international ones, are festivals in the modern time. When athletes are busy competing with one another, other people have fun.

To make the best of the opportunity, young people plan some romantic time for themselves - to watch the game together in the stadium or in night clubs, and even to hold their wedding ceremonies.

On the eve of the just-ended Beijing Olympics, Chinese media ran many reports about unusually large numbers of people registering marriages in this or that city.

According to the real estate online service Soufun.com, in Beijing in the morning of August 8 alone, 16,000 couples registered marriage. The figure was immediately used to highlight the alleged future demand for new housing units in the city.

But as it turned out, Soufun.com's account was less than half true. In the report by CCTV, the national television system, the number of Beijing's marriage registers on August 8 was 15,646 couples for the whole day. While the entire nation's single-day marriage registration record for that day, as CCTV quoted from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was 314,244 couples.

To say that more marriages will generate more sales of new houses is exaggeration. But what did sell well were wedding gowns (or the rentals of them) and gifts, and along with them, large flat screen TV sets (for the newlyweds to watch the forthcoming games).

Yet behind all these things - the young people's chase for fun and all the sales around the Olympics - is that this society has become able to afford them. Admittedly, there is still much poverty in China. But in general its people do have more money and can enjoy more leisure.

By one index, namely the money spent on food in a family's total expenditure, China has seen a major difference in the last three decades. Called by economists the Engle coefficient, it has come down in urban China from 57.5 to 35.8 in percentage terms, and in rural China, from 67.7 to 43.

Nowadays each urban resident would use around 14 percent of his or her total spending to chase cultural, entertainment, and sports interests, as reflected by data released by the National Statistics Bureau.

In real terms, it is 1,200 yuan ($163.54) on average. But in Beijing and Shanghai, it means every person would spend, not including the purchase of gadgets, 2,500 yuan a year. That, in Mao's time, could be equivalent to a young worker's 10 years' wages.

 

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