Hello!
If you are based in China, today I’m going to ask for your help.
We set up a survey to gather the prices of the most common services and products used by expats living in the major Chinese cities (see below for an example of Beijing).
The goal is, within a month, to publish a looong article with the average prices of the most common services and products in China, included a comparison of prices within the different cities.
This is something that our readers have been asking for years because it’s extremely difficult to gather accurate data before to move to China or even before relocating to a different Chinese city. We spent a whole week building a system that is able to collect the data for each city, compute the average prices for each city and publish them in real time here at SDC.
However, for this project to succeed, we will need the help of everybody in order to collect enough data. Please help us : )
Below you find the data we will gather for each major Chinese city!
p.s. If you don’t see the data below, it may be because of the Chinese internet. Although we tested it and it seems to work fine in China, we aren’t 100% sure yet that the service we are using for processing the data of the survey is working in all China. Please contact us if you notice any problem!.
Bejiing
Transportation
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Utilities (Monthly Cost)
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Accommodation (Monthly Rent)
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Sport and Leisure
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Eating and Drinking Out
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Market
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Monthly Net Salaries
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Other
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