A female college student in Changsha said she spends between 1,500 and 2,000 yuan a month, with money coming from her parents and part-time jobs on weekends.
These expenses are mainly used for meals, buying daily necessities, clothes, skin care cosmetics and books, in addition to the cost of dinners among classmates, which is also an expense.
"The dinners are held once a week and cost 50 to 100 yuan per person. In addition, the difference between male and female students is that most of the boys mainly spend money on meals, and girls have to buy other things in addition to meals."
Meanwhile, the 31 Xi'an university students surveyed also said that living expenses are mainly used for food and clothing and other living expenses, as well as meals and games, exams and training enrollment.
The biggest expenses are mainly for food and drink (71.42%), clothes (41.94%) and trips (19.35%). The biggest expense for boys was the catering part, while for girls it was catering and clothing.
The survey of Wuchang Polytechnic Institute showed that in addition to the daily consumption of food expenses, 84.65% of the students said that the living expenses are mainly used to buy daily necessities, and some of them are used to buy clothes, entertainment and recreation, friends' dinners and study.
In addition, online shopping is a favored way of spending for both boys and girls.
Jiang Xinfang, a sophomore majoring in e-commerce at Wuchang Polytechnic Institute, said she spends about 1,700 yuan a month on living expenses, 800 yuan on food and 300 yuan on phone bills.
There is also the Internet Taobao roughly spend 300-400 yuan per month, and 200-300 yuan spent on class dinners or departmental and club dinners.
In Suzhou, sophomore Li said his family gave him a fixed monthly living expenses of 1,600 yuan, most of which was spent on daily meals, averaging 30 yuan a day.
The rest is spent on buying favorite books online, and he still has a balance of about 300 yuan a month.
Web rumor Jiangxi college students monthly living expenses 1030 yuan?
As the time for college freshmen to report to school draws nearer and nearer, online discussions about how much living expenses are appropriate for parents to give to their children are getting more and more heated.
There is no specific reference standard because of the different levels of consumption in different cities.
There is a " national reference standard for college students' living costs " that has been hotly debated on the Internet, in which Jiangxi Province ranked fifteenth with 1,030 yuan.
However, the announcement of the standard attracted countless netizens to question and troll, saying that the standard data is on the low side.
In 2017, the living expenses of college students 1200 yuan / month is the standard, and the average student will be above and below this standard.
According to the survey, it was found that college students' living expenses are roughly in the following areas: food, clothing, socializing, entertainment and so on.
Dining undoubtedly occupies the "big head" of student living expenses, clothing, socializing, entertainment and other items also occupy a certain proportion.
How much is enough for a month's living expenses?
What is the average spending level of Chinese college students nationwide?
According to a 2016 survey on college students' consumption and financial management views, the average monthly consumption of Chinese college students is 1,212 yuan, and among the students surveyed, 41 percent of them have living expenses that can meet their daily needs and have a balance.
"1,000 to 1,500 yuan a month is probably enough to spend. Eating at school is not expensive, spending as little as 10 yuan is enough, while 30 yuan a day is already a good meal."
Xu Xiaodong, a freshman at Tsinghua University's industrial engineering department, said in an interview.
A random survey of college students in Xi'an found that the largest percentage of students spend between 1,000 and 1,500 yuan a month on living expenses.
Of the 31 students surveyed, 16 had monthly living expenses in this range. Nine students had monthly living expenses between $1,500 and $2,000, and three each had between $500 and $1,000 (including $1,000) and $2,000 or more.
Combined with the analysis of the 2017 data, $1,000 to $1,500 per month is enough for college students to maintain a basic life, but of course it is possible to exceed this amount within your ability if you have a part-time job.