The 2023 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on February 29 shows that the per capita nominal gross national income (GNI) is US$12,597 in US dollars. Due to the economic downturn and the devaluation of the renminbi, it fell by 0.1% from the previous year, thefirstdecrease in 29 years.GNI refers to the total income earned by individualsandbusinesses at home and abroad in a year. Itiscalculatedbyaddinggrossdomesticproduct (GDP), which represents the total value added created domestically, to theamount of net income such as interest and dividends from overseas transactions.The World Bank uses per capita GNI as the standard and divides countries into four categories: “high-income countries”, “upper-middle-income countries”, “lower-middle-income countries” and “low-income countries”. The standards are revised every July. The current standard for high-income countries is more than US$13,846, an increase of 5% from the previous time. The World Bank revealed that Japan’s per capita GNI in 2022 will be US$42,440China’s per capita GNI in 2023 has decreased compared with the previous year, and is 9% lower than the standard for high-income countries. The gap with the standard narrowed to more than 1% in 2021, but began to widen again in 2022.China changed its strict anti-epidemic measures at the beginning of 2023, but due to the prolonged economic downturn caused by the real estate downturn, corporate profits and household income growth have been