During a solar eclipse, the Moon can sometimes perfectly cover the Sun because its size is nearly the same as the Sun's when viewed from the Earth. A total solar eclipse is in fact an occultation while an annular solar eclipse is a transit.
According to CNNâs online global wage calculator, which uses data from the International Labor Organization, the average annual salary of a worker in Chinaâs private sector was 28,752 yuan (about $4,755) in 2012, or 38% of the global average. Thatâs roughly the same as a cleaner in Thailand, according to CNNâs data.sing CNNâs tool, Chinese media plugged in government figures for the countryâs âhigh incomeâ bracket of urban disposable income (link in Chinese)âand discovered that the closest equivalent is a taxi driver in South Africa. The average salary of a public sector worker in China.
By 2011, the share living on just $2 plunged 22 percentage points, to 9%. Over the same period, the median daily per capita income in China increased $2.36 to $5.34, a gain of 126%. As China added to its middle-income population, its share in the global middle class nearly quadrupled from 2001 to 2011.