China’s population of high-income earners, who have emerged since the reform and opening-up policy launched in 1978, stands at 72 million people, according to a report from sina.com.cn.

　　据新浪网一篇报道显示，自从1978年实行改革开放政策以来，中国的高收入群体数量已经达到了7200万人。

　　48 million of them are managers or technicians at private and foreign-funded companies, 14 million from intermediary organizations and social organizations, 11 million are freelance, and 10 million work at new media. Some people have two or more occupations.

　　其中4800万人是私企和外企的经理和技术人员，1400万人来自中介机构和社会组织，1100万人是自由职业者，1000万人从事于新媒体工作。有些人有两个或更多职业。

　　In Beijing, high-income earners account for 8.4% of the city’s population. The number is 14.8 percent in Shanghai, and 13.6% in Guangzhou, according to a blue book published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Those cities are the three largest in the country.

　　在北京，高收入者占据全部城市人口的8.4%。据社科院发布的蓝皮书表示，上海的这一数字是14.8%，广州是13.6%。这是全中国最大的三个城市。

　　The average annual income of this emerging social class is 166-thousand yuan (23,997 USD), or double the amount of the national average. Average spending among high-income earners in 2016 was over 131-thousand yuan (18,937 USD), or 1.7 times the national average.

　　这个新兴的社会阶层平均年收入达到了16.6万人民币(约合23997美元)，是全国平均水平的2倍。2016年高收入人群平均支出超过了13.1万元(约合18937美元)，是全国平均水平的1.7倍。

　　China’s high-income earners are said to change jobs frequently. 53% of the respondents have changed jobs during their career, 37% higher than the average, said the blue book, and many of them said they plan to find another job or start their own business in the coming two years.

　　中国高收入人群非常频繁地换工作。据蓝皮书表示，53%的受访者表示称在职业生涯中曾换过工作，比平均水平高出37%，而且许多人表示称他们计划在未来两年找到另一份工作或者自己创业。

　　But the majority of the new class doesn’t believe their family or themselves belong to the mid-income class. They said their income, total assets and consumption haven’t reached the standard of the mid-income class.

　　但是这一新兴阶层中大多数人不认为他们的家庭或者自己是中产阶级。他们称自己的收入、总资产和消费还没有达到中产阶级的标准。

　　The blue book analyzed that since the new class is mainly living in large cities, high housing prices and work pressure made them not believe that they belong to the mid-income class.

　　蓝皮书分析称，因为这一新阶层主要居住在大城市，高房价和工作压力使他们不相信自己已经属于中产阶级。

（编辑：何莹莹）