In the United States, known as the base camp of the middle class, the standards for distinguishing the middle class are still so confusing, not to mention the rest of the world. Take India as an example. According to the Indian Policy Research Center, there are about 300 million middle classes in India. India's "National Applied Economic Research Council" is the maker and publisher of Indian middle class standards. The Indian middle class standard issued by it is: all families with an average annual after-tax income of 33,750 rupees to 15 rupees (about 700-3,000 US dollars, and the current exchange rate of US dollars to rupees is about 1:48.5) can be regarded as middle class families. According to this calculation, in 200 1 year, 60 million families in India will become middle-class families. For a family of five, there are currently 300 million middle classes in India.

From this perspective, a country's middle class can have as much as you said, because there is no uniform standard and it is very casual. According to the standards of the Indian middle class, if the average annual income of a family is 700 dollars, it can be regarded as a middle class family. According to China's current foreign exchange rate, US$ 700 is equivalent to about 6,000 yuan, which is shared by a family of five, with an annual average of only about 1.000 yuan per person per month. At this level of income, I'm afraid it's even a problem to eat enough in many places in China, let alone "middle class" or "middle class". When the US Department of Commerce announced that India is one of the top ten emerging markets in the world, it said that the middle class in India has reached about 654.38+75 million (almost half less than the estimate of relevant Indian institutions). In the future, everyone in these Indian middle classes will have to buy at least one TV set, a tape recorder, a pressure cooker, a ceiling fan, a bicycle and a watch. Two thirds of them also need to buy mopeds, color TVs, electric irons, food mixers and sewing machines; Less than half of people want to buy refrigerators ... "What a big consumer market this will be!" For others, this is more like American black humor.