China News Service, April 30, according to the National Bureau of Statistics website, the sudden new coronary pneumonia epidemic in the first quarter of 2020 brought great difficulties and challenges to the increase of income for rural residents in poor areas. According to the National Rural Poverty Monitoring Survey, in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas was 3,218 yuan, a nominal increase of 2.7% (these are nominal growth rates unless otherwise specified). After deducting price factors, the actual decline was 3.0%.
The growth rate of per capita disposable income of rural residents in poor areas is higher than that of rural residents
In the first quarter, the growth rate of per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas was 1.8 percentage points higher than that of the national rural residents, and the actual decline was less than that of the national rural residents by 1.7 percentage points.
Judging from the situation of concentrated contiguous destitute areas, in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in concentrated contiguous destitute areas was 3144 yuan, an increase of 2.6%, which was 1.7 percentage points higher than that of rural residents in the country. After deducting the price factor, the actual decrease was 3.1%. The actual decline was less than 1.6 percentage points of the country ’s rural residents.
From the perspective of the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development work, in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in key counties for national poverty alleviation and development work was 3,185 yuan, an increase of 2.0%, which was 1.1 percentage points higher than the national rural residents. %, The actual decline is less than 1.0 percentage point of the country ’s rural residents.
Wage income and transfer net income maintained growth and stabilized the income of rural residents in poor areas
Affected by the epidemic, the return of rural labor in poor areas is delayed compared to previous years, and the wage income received in February has decreased significantly. However, the rapid increase in labor income before the Spring Festival and the priority of organizing the return of poor labor to return to work and work abroad after the holiday partially offset the epidemic. Adverse effects.
In the first quarter, the per capita wage income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas was 1,192 yuan, an increase of 0.3%, a decrease of 10.6 percentage points over the same period of the previous year. During the epidemic, governments at all levels increased social security and relief through timely and full pension payments, expanding the scope of temporary relief, and raising the level of relief. In the first quarter, rural residents in poor areas received from the government pensions, social assistance and Subsidies, policy-based living allowances, reimbursement of medical expenses and other transferable income per capita were 359 yuan, an increase of 10.7%. Under the influence of these measures, in the first quarter, the per capita net income of rural residents in poor areas was 945 yuan, an increase of 9.2%.
The rapid growth of the net income of primary production operations supports the slight increase in the net income of rural residents in poor areas
Under the impact of the epidemic, the net income per capita of secondary and tertiary operations in rural areas in the first quarter was 339 yuan, a decrease of 10.4%. Among them, the net income of operations such as accommodation, catering, transportation and warehousing, etc., was affected by the epidemic situation, which decreased by 27.7% and 21.2% respectively.
In the first quarter, the per capita net income of primary operations of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas was 699 yuan, an increase of 6.0%, mainly due to the significant year-on-year increase in prices of livestock products such as hogs. The net income of per capita farming operations was 298 yuan, an increase of 27.2%, a growth rate The same period last year increased by 21.7 percentage points. Driven by the relatively rapid increase in the net income of the primary industry, the per capita net income of rural residents in poor areas was 1,037 yuan, an increase of 0.1%.