The proportion of remuneration in China's GDP declined for 22 years from 1984 to 2005, according to a senior official of the country's trade union, the Beijing News reported Wednesday.
Remuneration accounted for a record 56.5 percent in China's GDP in 1983, but the portion continued a downward trend in the following 22 years, falling nearly 20 percentage points to 36.7 percent in 2005, according to Zhang Jianguo, director of the collective contracts department of All-China Federation of Trade Union (ACFTU).
By contrast, the return on the capital's portion of GDP in 2005 was 20 percentage points higher than in 1978, said Zhang.
As released in a recent ACFTU survey, 23.4 percent respondents said they had received no pay raise in five years, 75.2 percent label the social income distribution as "unfair", and 61 percent believe it is most unfair for ordinary workers to receive lower payment.
Zhang said low pay had become a major cause of some mass disturbances in recent years, and raising remuneration is the key to adjusting China's income distribution system.
