CDN 1 = CNY 6.7
Pepsi 500 ml - 3.5
bottle of water 750 ml - 1.5
Tsintao beer 630 ml - 2.0
McDonald's Big Mac - 10.5 (no, I haven't been eating them!)
Starbucks daily coffee - 15.0 (occasionally, only found in Beijing)
noodle soup - 2-5
avg lunch/dinner in small eatery - <> 15
roll of toilet paper - 1.0
bananas inYunnan province - small bunch for 1.0
bananas north of Yunnan - not possible to get more than one banana for less than 1.5
Potala Entrance fee - 100
city bus - 1, or 2 for air-con bus
Beijing subway - 3
intercity bus ticket - roughly it is about 10/hour of trip
train tickets slightly cheaper than buses
All transportation that is Beijing bound is about double.
Cheapest trip - 30 for 11 hr train trip from Hohhot to Erlianhot on the Mongolian border
Beijing bound - 182 for 11 hr trip, hard sleeper night train
Salaries:
Summer - 28 yr old train policeman on Pingyao-Beijing route - 1500/mo
Guan - 23 yr old university grad in hotel marketing, Yinchuan - 1000/mo
Albert - cafe owner in Yunnan said the avg salary in the area was 500/mo
Beijing - avg salary about 2000/mo reported by French guy studying in China for 2 years
So, I'm wondering who is buying all the cars, cameras and drinking at Starbucks? Same French guy was told the wealthy Chinese make up about 10% of the population, altho this is hard to verify.
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