"Xiaofan Chen" wrote:
>>> It is possible to work for China and India, but the time and process
>>> will be much longer, maybe another 100 years to reach the level
>>> of Japan. But once China and India hit the average GDP of the
>>> mid-income countries (say about US$4000) in 2020's, they will
>>> be significant world power already.
>>
>> According to the CIA World Factbook, China's per capita GDP is $5,400.
>
> That is called purchasing power based GDP. I am talking about
> the average GDP based on real dollar.

Are there any published statistics on the "average GDP based on real 
dollar"? To be honest, I have no idea what you are talking about.


> And IMHO that calculation of purchasing power is quite debatable.

But it does give one a rought idea of the living standards.

Vitaliy 

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