< China Investment reference > Su Ya, Research and Operations Manager, China region
"some time ago, there was a popular online joke, Linda in the office building, Vivian, Julia, came home during the Spring Festival, and turned back to the village of the green flowers, little red, girl eggs." Mary, who was carrying Starbucks coffee, said to me, "isn't that actually a picture of our little white-collar workers in Beijing?" In the office during the day, dressed in fancy clothes, riding a crowded bus at night, going back to the rental house in Tongzhou, eating takeout, and figuring out how much money we can save for the month. " Mary, who graduated from a key university, has been working for a foreign company in CBD, Beijing for three years, earning less than $10,005 a month before tax, but there is little left to do with renting, living and spending every month. "We don't have free canteens, stable jobs, even grey incomes, as well as private companies, as do state-owned enterprises and institutions." Mary laughs. "our wage increases are tied to foreign CPI and are simply unadaptable to domestic demand."