Guangdong sees slow income growth

GUANGZHOU: South China's Guangdong Province, one of the nation's economic powerhouses, has been urged to put more effort into increasing the per capita income of rural and urban residents.

Last year, the urban per capita income of Guangdong was 16,016 yuan ($2,053), an increase of 8.4 percent compared with the previous year, according to the Guangdong Provincial Statistics Bureau.

However, Guangdong's rate of increase was lower than the nation's average, which stood at 12.1 percent last year.