Most countries in the world set minimum wage standards by law and adjust them regularly or irregularly according to economic conditions. Among the countries that set minimum wages, 60% set only one standard, and 40% set different minimum wage standards for different types of work. For the sake of comparison, this article only uses the lowest data when there are different minimum wages.

1. Provide a minimum monthly wage. Such countries have the most, such as: Luxembourg 16,420 yuan/month, Iceland 14,993 yuan/month, Belgium 14,407 yuan/month, the Netherlands 13,820 yuan/month, Austria 10,000 yuan/month, Andorra 8,979 yuan/month, Cyprus 7,890 yuan/month, Greece 7,400 yuan/month, Spain 7,280 yuan/month, Israel 6,853 yuan/month (or an average of the wage of 47.5%), Malta $6,300/month, Slovenia $5,890/month, Portugal $5,250/month, Czech Republic $3,060/month, Slovakia $2,960/month, Turkey $2,860/month, Poland $2,810/month, Estonia $2,780/month, Hungary $2,700/month, Latvia $2,540/month, Lithuania $2,320/month Chile 2,310 yuan/month, Argentina 2,232 yuan/month, Russia 1,921 yuan/month, Brazil 1,790 yuan/month, Romania 1,530 yuan/month, Iran 1,518 yuan/month, Algeria 1,500 yuan/month, Peru 1,298 yuan/month, Bulgaria 1,230 yuan/month, Gabon 1,200 yuan/month, Kuwait 960 yuan/month, Congo 810 yuan/month. Pakistan 486 Yuan/month, Liberia 442 Yuan/month, Cameroon 424 Yuan/month, Cambodia 392 Yuan/month, Vietnam 320 Yuan/month.

2. Set a minimum hourly wage. Such countries are Germany 81.5 yuan/hour (West) and 65.8 yuan/hour (East), New Zealand 60.80 yuan/hour, Japan 60.29 yuan/hour, Canada 54.45 yuan/hour, the United States of America 50.75 yuan/hour, South Korea 24 yuan/hour, and Marshalls 14 yuan/hour.

3. The minimum hourly or daily wage and the minimum monthly or weekly wage are also stipulated. Such countries are Monaco $92.61/hour or $14,046/month, France $88.20/hour or $13,377/month, Ireland $86.5/hour or $14,620/month, Andorra is $71.80/hour or $8,979/month, Britain $64.66/hour or $10,100/month, Australia $87.29/hour or 3317/week, and the Netherlands $646/day or $3228/week or $13986/month.

4. Mandatory bonuses along with minimum wage. Several countries have mandatory year-end bonuses and subsistence allowances in addition to the minimum wage prescribed by law, e.g., Malta $1424/week + $2703 year-end bonus + $2420 annual subsistence allowance.

5. The minimum wage is not stipulated by law, but by agreement between labor and management. Some workers in capitalist countries with better trade union organization have higher overall wage level after years of struggle, the country need not stipulate the minimum wage in the form of law any more, the wage standard is stipulated by way of labor contract, but there is a recognized standard, such as: Sweden 22,700 yuan / month, Switzerland 20,838 yuan / month (unskilled workers) and 26,374 yuan / month (skilled workers), Austria 11,667 yuan /month.

6. Because governments give tax exemptions and many benefits to those who receive minimum wages, the annual income of those who receive minimum wages actually has to be much out of wages, therefore, analyzing the annual income of those who receive minimum wages in each country can reflect their income more accurately.

The average minimum income in the world's 183 countries and territories is $41,535, and the top 20 countries, with the exception of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, are concentrated in Europe. These countries are (from high to low) Norway 339,132 yuan/year, Finland 240,000 yuan/year, Sweden 223,200 yuan/year, Iceland 208,396 yuan/year, Ireland 185,353 yuan/year, Monaco 168,550 yuan/year, Denmark 158,991 yuan/year, Germany 142,128 yuan/year, Luxembourg 141,379 yuan/year, Netherlands 134,421 Yuan/year, Australia 133203 Yuan/year, Belgium 131992 Yuan/year, France 122941 Yuan/year, New Zealand 117117 Yuan/year, Canada 113638 Yuan/year, San Marino 111,097 Yuan/year, Italy 110,265 Yuan/year, Switzerland 108,577 Yuan/year, Andorra 107,748 Yuan/year, and USA 105,560 Yuan /year.

China's lowest annual income is 6,120 yuan, less than 15 percent of the world average, ranking 158th and 26th from the bottom. 14 of the 25 countries with the lowest incomes ranked after China are in Africa, 8 are in Asia, and there is one each in Oceania, the U.S. and Europe.

Three Indicators for Measuring Minimum Wage

There are three indicators for measuring minimum wage, the first one is the ratio of minimum wage to GDP per capita, which is used to explain the value of the country's labor force; the second one is the ratio of the minimum wage to the average wage, which is used to explain the fairness of the distribution; and the third one is the growth rate of the minimum wage, which is used to explain the country's attention to the low-income group.

The ratio of minimum wage to per capita GDP is 58% on average in the world, and the figures for countries that China is more familiar with are: 127% in Ethiopia, 125% in Congo, 113% in Afghanistan, 110% in Pakistan, 106% in India, 66% in Finland, 66% in Nigeria, 64% in Morocco, 63% in Cameroon, 62% in New Zealand, 61% in Sweden, 61% in Denmark, 61% in Bangladesh, and 61% in the United States. 61%, Bangladesh 61%, Cuba 60%, Iran 59%, Philippines 59%, Mongolia 56%, Belgium 52%, Australia 51%, France 51%, Germany 45%, Greece 44%, Norway 43%, Portugal 42%, Canada 41%, Italy 40%, South Korea 37%, Switzerland 36%, United States 32%, Japan 32%, United Kingdom 28%. China is 25%, ranking 158th in the world. It is worth noting that 25 countries, mostly in Africa, are highly indebted and have minimum wages that exceed GDP per capita.

Data on average wages in the world is incomplete, and OECD data is used in this report. The ratio of the minimum wage to the average wage in the 24 OECD countries averages 50%, and the ranking from highest to lowest is as follows: 83% in Switzerland, 76% in Sweden, 73% in Finland, 71% in Norway, 60% in Ireland, 58% in Denmark, 58% in Germany, 54% in Italy, 52% in Poland, 51% in Portugal, 50% in Greece, 49% in France, 46% in Belgium, 45% in Australia, 45% in the Netherlands, 45% in Spain 45%, Luxembourg 41%, South Korea 37%, Australia 36%, Czech Republic 36%, Japan 35%, United Kingdom 30%, United States 30%, Hungary 29%. 24 countries have an average wage of 81% of GDP per capita, and a minimum wage to GDP per capita ratio of 41%.

China's average wage is 21% of the average wage if you go by the National Bureau of Statistics.

The average wage to GDP per capita is higher in developing countries than in developed countries, generally around 110%.

Between 2001 and 2007, the annual growth rate of the minimum wage (adjusted for inflation) was 3.8% in developed countries, 6.5% in developing countries, and the world average was 5.7%. Between 1995 and 2007, for every 1 percentage point increase in world GDP per capita, the average wage increased by 0.75 percentage points.

Third, the distribution of social wealth and the gap between the rich and the poor

The distribution of wealth mainly examines the income situation of the high- and low-income groups, that is, the flow of social wealth, expressed in terms of the percentage of total social income. This section analyzes 134 countries for which data are available (2005 data).

The incomes of the world's richest 20% of the group account for an average of 47% of the total income of the society; the lower the ratio, the smaller the gap between the rich and the poor, and the more harmonious the society. The 20 countries with the lowest ratios are (from lowest to highest):Azerbaijan 30%, Slovakia 35%, Japan 36%, Denmark 36%, Czech Republic 36%, Sweden 37%, Belarus 37%, Finland 37%, Germany 37%, Norway 37%, Ukraine 37%, South Korea 38%, Croatia 38%, Austria 38%, Bulgaria 38%, Serbia 38%. Hungary 39%, Netherlands 39%, Ethiopia 39, Slovenia 39%. The vast majority of countries above 47% are in Africa and South America. This value is lower than the world average for all industrialized countries, and the industrialized countries that are not listed in the above 20 countries are: Canada 40%, France 40%, Australia 41%, Switzerland 41%, Belgium 41%, Greece 42%, Ireland 42%, Italy 42%, Spain 42%, New Zealand 44%, United Kingdom 44%, Russia 44%, United States 46%, Portugal 46%. China, at 48 percent, is one percentage point above the world average and ranks 81st out of 134 countries.

The poorest 20% of the world's groups earn an average of 6% of the total income of society; the higher this ratio, the smaller the gap between the rich and the poor and the more harmonious the society. The top 20 countries are (from highest to lowest) Azerbaijan 13%, Japan 11%, Czech Republic 10%, Finland 10%, Norway 10%, Bangladesh 9%, Ethiopia 9%, Sweden 9%, Pakistan 9%, Ukraine 9%, Egypt 9%, Burundi 9%, Slovakia 9%, Belarus 9%, Croatia 9%, Bulgaria 9%, Austria 9%, Armenia 9%, Germany 9% and Belgium 9%. , Germany 9%, Belgium 9%. The vast majority of countries below 6% are in Africa and South America. China, at 5.7%, is 0.3 percentage points below the world average and ranks 88th out of 134 countries. Western industrialized countries are all higher than China except the United States, which is at 5.4 percent.

Statistics from China's Ministry of Finance show that the richest 10 percent of Chinese households account for 45 percent of all urban residents' property, compared with 31.7 percent for the world, while the lowest 10 percent of households account for 1.4 percent of all urban residents' property, compared with 2.5 percent for the world. The richest 10 per cent account for more than 45 per cent of the wealth of society in only four countries, namely, Colombia, 45.9 per cent, Haiti, 47.8 per cent, Botswana, 51 per cent, and Namibia, 65 per cent; the poorest 10 per cent account for less than 1.4 per cent of the wealth of society in only 17 countries, namely, Namibia, 1.3 per cent, Guatemala, 1.3 per cent, South Africa, 1.3 per cent, Botswana, 1.3 per cent, Argentina, 1.2 per cent, Ecuador, 1.2 per cent, and Paraguay. Ecuador 1.2%, Paraguay 1.1%, Brazil 1.1%, El Salvador 1%, Lesotho 1%, Haiti 0.9%, Panama 0.8%, Colombia 0.8%, Honduras 0.7%, Angola 0.6%, Namibia 0.6% and Bolivia 0.5%. The above figures show that China is one of the few countries in the world with the widest gap between the rich and the poor if only urban income status is examined.

The world uses the Gini coefficient to describe the gap between the rich and the poor in a country. A Gini coefficient of less than 0.2 is called a highly egalitarian society, a coefficient of between 0.2 and 0.4 is called a lowly unequal society, and a coefficient of above 0.4 is called a highly unequal society.

In 2005, the average Gini coefficient of 134 countries in the world was 0.40, and China was 0.42, ranking 83rd among the 134 countries. The Gini coefficients of all industrialized countries were lower than that of China, Denmark 0.25, Japan 0.25, Sweden 0.25, Norway 0.26, Finland 0.27, Germany 0.28, Austria 0.29, the Netherlands 0.31, Korea 0.32, and Canada 0.31.

In 2007, the world average household consumption accounted for 61 percent of GDP per capita, while China's figure was 34 percent, about half the world level.

The world usually draws the line of extreme poverty at $1.25 per day of living expenses and the line of poverty at $2. In 2005, 20% of China's population was below the line of extreme poverty, and 49% of the population was below the line of poverty. China is one of the poorest countries in the world.

V. Conclusion of the World Wage Study

Through the study of the wage system of 183 countries and regions in the world, the conclusions are as follows:

1. The minimum wage is 58% of the per capita GDP

The establishment of a scientific wage system is based on the determination of a suitable minimum wage, and the reference system of the minimum wage is the per capita GDP, and the minimum wage is 58% of the per capita GDP. The reference point for the minimum wage is GDP per capita, which is 58% of GDP per capita. Once the minimum wage is set, it naturally forms the average wage of the country's employees, which is generally two times the minimum wage.

The minimum wage is subject to annual adjustment by reference to the increase in GDP or the consumer price index. In France, the minimum wage was adjusted from $66.7/hour in August 2001 to $88.20/hour in July 2009, an average annual increase of 4.03%. (Note: French working hours were adjusted from 169 to 151.67 hours per month in June 2005.) In contrast, the wages of French civil servants have grown slowly, with the minimum wage for Parisian civil servants increasing from $11,650/month in August 2001 to $13,870/month in December 2009, an average annual increase of 2.38%. The average gross income of mid-level civil servants increased by an average of 1.52% per year from January 1992 to December 2009.

2. Civil servants' wages are twice the minimum wage

Comparable wage systems have been adopted by most countries in the world, especially in industrialized countries, where anyone's wages are comparable: to GDP per capita, to the minimum wage, and to the average wage. All countries in the world (except China) have formulated a uniform standardized wage system for all public officials who eat official food in accordance with the market mechanism, and have implemented equal pay for equal work; the difference between white-collar and blue-collar wages must not be too great, and the wages of civil servants must not exceed the wages of private enterprises. U.S. law provides that civil servants do not have the right to raise their own wages, which must be approved by the people's representative bodies; civil service wage standards with reference to the private sector, and may not be higher than the wages of private sector employees of the same category in the same area; civil service wage annual fine-tuning of the increase may not exceed the wage cost index, civil service wages must be less than the rate of increase of the private sector; civil service wage changes must be reported to the people's representative bodies for approval, and publicized, with the public announcement coming first and the pay increase coming later; all civil servants' salaries must be transparent and readily accessible to all citizens.

The wage system of most countries in the world reflects the idea of people-oriented, labor-intensive and harsh labor environment work wages are significantly higher than the wages of civil servants in air-conditioned offices, such as in 2009, Singapore's civil service wage of $ 235,475/year, while the wage level ranked in the 100th place of the road piling and piling worker's wage of $ 286,848/year, civil service wages are not as high as the road construction worker high.

3. The difference between the salaries of civil servants at all levels is not more than 60%

The difference between the salaries of civil servants at all levels in the world (except China) is very small, and is generally around 60%. For example, in 2003, the average monthly salary of civil servants in France was 24,600 yuan / month, after deducting all kinds of assessments and taxes, the net salary in hand was 20,720 yuan / month. The net salary of senior civil servants was 24,620 yuan per month, the net salary of mid-level civil servants was 17,535 yuan per month, and the net salary of ordinary civil servants was 15,504 yuan per month, with the salary of the highest class being 59% higher than that of the lowest class. The wages of different sectors of the civil service are also basically balanced, such as Norway, the highest paid diplomats, the lowest paid military personnel, the highest wage than the lowest wage is only 20% higher.

4. Wage difference between industries is 70%

World countries (except China) between the industry wage difference is generally not more than double. Norway in 2008, the wages of various industries are: petroleum and mining 60817 yuan / month, financial securities 55779 yuan / month, electricity 47687 yuan / month, real estate 44,421 yuan / month, state hospitals 41,308 yuan / month, social self-employment 41,182 yuan / month, the central government expenditure of the public sector 41,078 yuan / month, the national school staff 40,976 yuan / month, transportation 40514/month, manufacturing 39,393/month, private schools 39,294/month, fishing 38,843/month, construction 38,273/month, wholesale and retail 37,096/month, local civil servants 35,272/month, health and social services 34,098/month, hotels and restaurants 28,261/month, with a wage differential between industries of 115%. Sweden's 2008 wages by industry were: scientific research 30,400 yuan/month, real estate 30,400 yuan/month, education 30,300 yuan/month (24,400 yuan/month for basic education and 30,500 yuan/month for higher education), construction industry 29,400 yuan/month, government agencies and military and police 28,900 yuan/month, finance and insurance 27,100 yuan/month, managerial services 26,300 yuan/month, and Culture and entertainment 26,100 yuan/month, health care 25,200 yuan/month, the wage difference between industries is only 21%.

5. Wages of corporate executives are 2.2 times the national average

The wages of corporate executives in countries around the world that are funded by the government implement the civil service wage system, and their wages are basically the same as those of senior civil servants. In Norway, the national average wage in 2008 was 40,047 yuan/month, 63,353 yuan/month for general managers and chief executives, 54,847 yuan/month for technical specialists, 46,723 yuan/month for technicians, 33,971 yuan/month for clerks, 31,567 yuan/month for sales and other services, 35,397 yuan/month for trade laborers, 34,824 yuan/month for shop workers, and 30,054 yuan/month for apprentices. The salary of the boss of an enterprise is only twice as much as that of an apprentice. France's state-owned enterprise executives' salary restrictions are very strict, every year the Ministry of Finance to the enterprise a total wage, and loss-making enterprises shall not increase the total wage, and then the enterprise executives take the total wage given by the Ministry of Finance and then negotiate with the trade unions about the wage, because all this is transparent, the possibility of executives withholding the wage is zero, and even for the sake of compromising, and also to take their own wages to subsidize the workers. In France, the salary level of executives of public and monopoly companies is directly referenced to the civil service system without regard to market factors. State-owned enterprises are owned by the people, so the chairman of the board must be a civil servant, appointed by the prime minister and subject to the civil service wage scale. General managers are recruited by the board of directors and their salary rates are set by the Ministry of Finance, with no variable component and no annual salary system. Civil servants from the Ministry of Finance cannot take up positions in SOEs they once governed.

6. Educational qualifications have a limited impact on wages

Educational qualifications have a limited impact on the level of wages, with wages for the highest qualifications being only 70% higher than wages for the lowest qualifications. For example, in 2008, the average monthly salary of each educational level in Norway was 32,760 yuan/month for workers with primary diplomas, 38,610 yuan/month for workers with secondary diplomas, 45,630 yuan/month for workers with university diplomas, and 56,160 yuan/month for workers with postgraduate degrees or higher, and the ratio of the highest educational level to the lowest educational level was 1.7.

7. Age has little effect on wages

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Generally the older the age, the higher the wage, but this difference is not obvious. For example, in Sweden in 2008, the age group receiving low wages was between 18-24 years old, and the wage for that age group was 22,000 yuan per month, and the age group receiving high wages was between 60-64 years old, and the wage for that age group was 32,000 yuan per month. The wages for the higher age group are only 45% higher than the wages for the lower age group.

Sixth, China's wage problems and reform proposals

China's wages exist in the main problem is that there is no wage system, especially the state civil service wages, each time not after the people's consent to quietly increase wages, and the range is the GDP increase of two times, which is unique in the world, because the civil servants are the people's employees, civil service wages must be approved by the people to be legal. The wages of some state-owned monopolies are dozens or hundreds of times higher than the minimum wage, resulting in a massive loss of people's wealth into the hands of a few and a serious distributional injustice.

1. Wage statistics must cover all employees

The National Bureau of Statistics only counts the wages of those who eat royal food every year, and the coverage of wage statistics is less than 15% of the employees, which is definitely a "Chinese characteristic". The national average wage is announced every year, and the people are angry that their wages are "being increased", so this kind of statistics can only mislead the policy makers to formulate unpopular policies.

With the exception of war-torn countries, almost all workers in the world are included in the wage statistics, including nannies, hairdressers, dishwashers, waiters, freelancers and seasonal agricultural workers. The reason is very simple, any laborer is the creator of national wealth, do not count them in that is indifferent to them, it is equivalent to the country to abandon them, abandoned the breadwinner is unethical behavior of forgetting the roots.

Statistics is a pointer to the development of policy, the National Bureau of Statistics wage statistics must be included in the People's Republic of China *** and the country's national territory of all the labor and get paid the wages of the people, so as to get the real data. Otherwise, if only the wages of those who eat imperial food are counted, the gap between the rich and the poor in China will become wider and wider, society will become more and more turbulent, and a harmonious society can only be a slogan, and the people will be absolutely dissatisfied.

2. The national legal minimum wage should be raised to RMB 1,177/month

We take Hebei Province, which ranked 11th in terms of per capita GDP in 2008, as our sample (per capita GDP of RMB 19,363). 2008 minimum wages in Hebei Province were divided into RMB 680/month, RMB 620/month, RMB 560/month and RMB 510/month, which is the lowest value in this report, in line with the rest of the world. Consistent with other countries and regions in the world, the lowest value is taken, i.e., 510 yuan/month or 6,120 yuan/year, which is ranked 158th out of 183 countries and regions in the world, and there are even 32 African countries with a higher minimum wage than China. China's wages for eating imperial food rose as much as 17.2 percent in 2008, almost twice the GDP increase, Tianjin and other provinces and municipalities have not adjusted the minimum wage for nine years, and although some areas have adjusted the minimum wage, the increase is also much lower than the civil servants' salary increment.

China's GDP per capita ranked 99th in the world in 2009, but our minimum wage ranked 158th. The minimum wage is obviously not commensurate with economic development, and the people have made contributions to economic development, but they have not benefited from it.

Wages in most countries in the world account for 50 percent of the cost of business, and in China they are less than 10 percent. Since 85% of the employees' wages are too low and have not been adjusted for many years, the share of labor compensation in national income of Chinese employees has been decreasing year by year, while the share of capital return has been increasing year by year. The low minimum wage is the main reason for the lack of domestic demand.

The world's minimum wage is 58% of GDP per capita on average, and the current minimum wage in China is only 25% of GDP per capita, less than half of the world standard. Therefore, the urgent task for China's wage problem is to adjust the minimum wage to the world average, that is, 58% of the per capita GDP. 2009 China's per capita GDP is 3566 US dollars, that is, 24,356 yuan yuan, China's minimum wage should be 14,126 yuan/year or 1,177 yuan/month. This is the minimum wage standard set by the state. Each province, city or autonomous region may set its own minimum wage standard according to the local economic situation, but it shall not be lower than the national legal minimum wage.

Once the minimum wage, which is scientific, reasonable and in line with international practice, is set, the average wage in the nation's private sector will naturally take shape, as enterprises are inclined to hire workers at the minimum wage. Research shows that the average wage is twice the minimum wage, meaning that the average wage for all employees in China will fluctuate around 2,354 yuan per month.

3. Establishing a comparable civil service wage system and a system of interest avoidance

High and low wages are relative and comparative, which means that the establishment of any wage system must first determine the frame of reference, that is, the GDP per capita, the minimum wage, and the national average wage of all employees. The average wage of the world's civil servants is roughly equal to the GDP per capita, on a par with the national average wage for employees, and twice the minimum wage.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the average salary of Chinese civil servants in 2008 was 33,869 yuan per year, which is about 6 times of the minimum wage, so the comparison can be said that Chinese civil servants' salary is the highest in the world. This comparison can be said that China's civil servants' salary is the highest in the world, because the salary of civil servants in most countries in the world is twice as much as the minimum wage. Therefore, according to the international practice, the wage standard of Chinese civil servants should be like this: if the current minimum wage in China is set at 510 yuan/month, then the wage of civil servants should be 1020 yuan/month; if the minimum wage is set at a reasonable 1177 yuan/month, then the wage of civil servants should be 2354 yuan/month. If officials don't accept the former standard, then it's time for them to seriously consider the people's wages.

The state should enact a wage law, which must embody the principle of equal pay for equal work between civil servants and private enterprises as well as within the civil service, and civil servants' wages should keep a close eye on the private sector and should not be higher than those in the private sector. Referring to the advanced wage management experience of industrialized countries, the wage standard is determined by the wage base, in accordance with the prime minister and deputy, ministerial level, departmental level, departmental level, departmental level, departmental level, departmental level, departmental level, departmental level, clerk, 12 levels, 10 grades per level **** 120 wage grades to determine the wage base, the level of the standard grade can be intersected, the wage base is fixed, and fine-tuned every year according to the price index of the Bureau of Statistics. The wage system must be transparent, and any citizen can check the wage scale of any civil servant.

In setting wage scales, the system of interest avoidance must be observed, it is illegal for a civil servant to give himself a pay rise, and any change in wage scales must be passed by the National People's Congress before it takes effect.

4. Wage scales in publicly owned enterprises are modeled on civil service wages

The Chinese government's injection of capital into enterprises has resulted in a wide range of wage differences between industries, which is unparalleled in the world. According to a report in China Youth Daily on May 5, 2009, among the 14 listed banks, Pudong Development Bank, Minsheng Bank and CITIC Bank have the highest per capita salaries of 456,200 yuan/year, 398,200 yuan/year and 346,100 yuan/year, and the lowest per capita salaries of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of Communications and China Construction Bank are 130,400 yuan/year, 147,900 yuan/year and 153,600 yuan/year. Wages in China's construction, catering and knitting industries are around 10,000 yuan/year, and the wage differential between Chinese industries has reached 3,000 percent, 43 times the world average!

Employees of state-owned enterprises also belong to the category of civil servants in principle, because state-owned assets are owned by the people of the whole country, and the people employ some people to run these enterprises, which is the same nature as civil servants in government organizations. In foreign countries, all those who are entrusted by the people to do things for the people belong to the category of civil servants. Therefore, the public enterprise wage standard must refer to the civil service wage, can not rely on their monopoly status to send sky-high wages, disguised as theft of people's wealth. Li Rongrong, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), said, "Now the annual salaries of senior executives of central enterprises are not set at a high level, and the average salary is about 600,000 yuan." That's the problem in China. Officials always think their salaries are not that high, but that 600,000 yuan is something ordinary people can't earn in a lifetime.

China's minimum wage is 25 percent of GDP per capita, compared with the world average of 58 percent; China's minimum wage is 21 percent of the average wage, compared with the world average of 50 percent; China's civil servants' wages are six times the minimum wage, compared with the world average of two times; China's state-owned enterprise executives' wages are 98 times the minimum wage, compared with the world average of five times; and China's sectoral wage differentials are as high as 3,000 percent, compared with the world average of 70 percent. China's industry wage gap is as high as 3,000 percent, compared to the world average of 70 percent. These figures are a warning that the government must act.

Socialist China has spent more than a decade pulling out the gap between rich and poor that capitalist countries have not pulled out for centuries, becoming one of the few countries in the world with the largest gap between rich and poor. The train tracks are parallel, one for the rich and powerful, the other for the people; wages must be brought into line with international standards by connecting the two tracks together in parallel, not by putting the rich and powerful on the rails and leaving the people's rails where they are, so that the Chinese train will not be able to move forward.