The Hunan Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics announced the Hunan people's livelihood data in the first half of 2023 on July 19. It showed that agricultural production, residents' income and expenditure, employment and prices, and other major livelihood survey indicators were generally stable. Hunan's per capita disposable income was 17,070 CNY, up 5.8% from the same period last year. The growth rate was 0.7 percentage points higher than the first quarter. After accounting for price changes, the actual growth rate was 5.1%.

Grain production showed optimistic trend and hog supply was abundant. In the first half of the year, the climate was generally suitable for summer grain growing. Its total output reached 462,000 tons, an increase of 1.2% year on year. The unit area production was 271.5 kilograms per mu, growing by 0.6% over the previous year. The provincial pig production was 32,505,000, up 1.6%. Pork, beef, mutton, and poultry production grew by 1.6% to 3,004,000 tons.

Hunan saw a narrower income gap between rural and urban residents. The growth rate of per capita disposable income of rural residents was 2.3 percentage points higher than that of the urban ones. The ratio of disposable income per capita in urban and rural areas (taking disposable income per capita in rural areas as 1) was 2.41, a decrease of 0.05 percentage points over the same period last year.

Consumption was energized and residents' living consumption expenditure maintained growth. The per capita living consumption expenditure of the provincial residents amounted to 11,956 CNY in Jan-June, up 4.4% year on year. The growth rate was faster than that of the first quarter.

Employment generally remained stable. In the first six months, Hunan's urban survey unemployment rate averaged 5.4%, down 0.2 percentage points from the first quarter.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn