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Earings of the average Hong Kong worker

The average monthly household income of 75% of the population (i.e. the industrial workers)

is about $1,550.

2.

of this the average family sponds about $365 on goods of China origin (i.c. about 23% of

income).

3.

In addition, the average worker's family

buys other goods which contain materials from China. In total, each family probably spends about IK2480, or 31% of their income, on goods from China.

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Total expenditure of all households

(including the more wealthy 25%) on goods from China

is about #K,5.2 billion.

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