Question: what is the quality of life like in china

title: Standard of living in China
text: The highest agricultural incomes were earned by suburban units that were able to sell produce and sideline products in the nearby cities . Under the responsibility system , household incomes depended on the number of workers in each household and the household 's success in holding down production costs and in supplying goods and services to local markets . Most of the rural families with the highest incomes - the `` 10,000 - yuan households '' - were `` specialized households '' that concentrated family efforts on supplying a particular service or good . Many of these families owned their own equipment , such as trucks or specialized buildings , and operated essentially as private concerns . An increasingly important influence on rural incomes in the mid-1980s was the expansion of nonagricultural rural enterprises , often referred to as `` township enterprises . '' These were factories , construction teams , and processing operations , most of which were owned by collectives , primarily villages , towns , and townships . Some were owned by voluntary groups of families . Township enterprises were considered by the government to be the main source of employment for rural workers who were leaving agriculture because of rising productivity under the responsibility system . By the end of 1986 , township enterprises employed 21 percent of the rural labor force . The movement of rural labor into township enterprises helped to increase average rural incomes because of the higher productivity in nonagricultural jobs . In 1986 industrial workers in rural areas produced an average annual value of ¥ 4,300 per person , compared with about ¥ 1,000 per farmer in the same year .