Chapter 1942 Engel's Coefficient
"The Chinese have so many ways of processing food ingredients." Mai Xiaomiao said with emotion.
“The main reason is forced by living conditions.” Zhou Zhi said: “In ancient times, the methods of preserving food were very limited. For example, vegetables collected in the spring and autumn must be processed into dried vegetables, pickles, and kimchi; It is made into dried meat, bacon, sauced meat, ham, oily meat, sausage, etc.; the grain is ground into flour and made into dry biscuits, noodles, vermicelli, etc. The purpose is to store the ingredients obtained during the harvest as much as possible. It needs to last longer and can be eaten during seasons when ingredients are scarce.”
“And because food stored for too long will become unpalatable, how to make it taste better is the wisdom of our ancestors. Generally speaking, the longer the history, the better this aspect will be."
Mai Xiaomiao thought for a moment: "That seems to be the case."
"I will take you to eat later. In addition to the eight major cuisines, China also has many ethnic minority cuisines and local cuisines. Oh, by the way, do you know the Engel coefficient?"
"I don't know, what is this coefficient?"
"The Engel coefficient is the mid-19th century. German statistician and economist Ernst Engel conducted a survey on the consumption of households with different incomes in Belgium and studied the impact of increased income on consumer demand expenditures. Influence, a principle with regularity is proposed.”
"Generally speaking, it means that the less a family or individual's income is, the greater the proportion of expenditure on purchasing subsistence food in the family or individual's income. For a country, a country The poorer you are, the greater the proportion of the average expenditure per citizen spent on food.”
“It seems reasonable. According to this theory, the Engel coefficient of the United States is currently relatively low. , China’s Engel coefficient is relatively high.”
"Yes, although China's Engel coefficient has been declining for more than ten years, the previous base number was too high, so the value of this coefficient is still quite high."
"From 1978 to 1984, my country's The Engel coefficient has always been high at over 60%. From 1985 to 1992, It has dropped to more than 40%.”
“It has dropped by 20% in more than ten years, which is quite good.” Mai Xiaomiao actually has no idea about the economy, but it has dropped by 3% from the original base. One part, considered only from a statistical point of view, should be regarded as a remarkable number.
“But in recent years, our country’s Engel coefficient has been on an upward trend. From 47 in 1985, it dropped to 42 and 43 in 1987, and recently it has risen again. Forty-seven."
"Huh?" Mai Xiaomiao frowned: "Is the living standard of Chinese people getting worse in recent years?"
"Actually not." Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded: "Actually, the most fundamental reason is that China is a country of gourmet food. People's pursuit of gourmet food is much stronger than in Belgium during Engel's time. After their lives got better, they first adjusted the role of gourmet food in their lives. The proportion of expenditures should still be adjusted first. Such adjustments are even higher than the proportion of income growth, thus causing The phenomenon of the Ener coefficient increasing instead of decreasing."
"I understand." Mai Xiaomiao smiled: "For example, if a person's previous salary was 100 yuan, of which food accounted for 30 yuan, his Engel The coefficient is 30%; now the salary has increased to 200 yuan, but the food expenditure has increased to 100 yuan. Although the income has increased, the Engel coefficient has increased to 100%. Fifty!”
“That’s pretty much what it means,” Zhou Zhi said, “But this is for most urban residents in our country. For places like Lianhe Township, last year’s Engel coefficient was basically the same. As high as more than 70%, many families can even say 100%. This year, it finally started to be different.”
"It's hard to understand this way of life without coming to see it for yourself." Mai Xiaomiao frowned slightly: "I didn't understand why you came here before. I can't understand you until I come here myself." It’s amazing what you’ve done, what a remarkable progress you’ve made.”
“You and Renzhong are both great!”
"Hahaha, Xiaomiao, you are great too! When we go back, the basic experimental environment should be able to operate, right?" "It should be almost there. But I still want to make it clear to you that the current basic cell-like neuron network , with the same resources, its computing power cannot be compared with the traditional linear computing model, it can be... six percent... ah, up to seventy, which is the limit."
"Didn't we agree before? What we are solving at this stage is whether there is a problem." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "The maximum can reach 70%? Xiaomiao, your model is very powerful, you know How much did I report to the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Forty percent hahaha..."
"You don't trust me too much!" Mai Xiaomiao lightly hit Zhou Zhi with the deer ear leek leaf in her hand. hand, said angrily.
“You can’t blame me for this, it’s mainly because I was led into the ditch by Director Song.” Zhou Zhi said: “Because he told me that with the current level of the country, we can achieve up to 35%. It’s even higher by five points.”
He said perfectly: "If it can reach 70%, Director Song will be so beautiful that the computing power efficiency will be doubled!"
"Not necessarily, the result will be returned. I just know." Mai Xiaomiao affirmed: "But it can't be as low as 40%."
"I was a little nervous before joining. I ran out to play with you, and I don’t seem too nervous now.”
“It’s good that you’re not nervous, I’m going to reward you with a good meal today!” Zhou Zhi thought of something: “Good guy, this made me happy. Reminds me of the wealthy people who came to our country to buy missiles.”
“What’s this story?” Mai Xiaomiao had obviously never heard of this story.
When Zhou Zhi told the story, Mai Xiaomiao couldn't help laughing, especially Zhou Zhi's lifelike sentence at the end, "Take your money and leave, and don't touch my missiles with dirty hands." She laughed so hard.
This is obviously the arrangement, but the thoughtful arrangement was so interesting that Mai Xiaomiao couldn't stop laughing.
It’s not difficult to prepare lunch. I saved the bacon for today’s meal, and now it’s just used to stir-fry the deer ear and leek. In addition, the petioles of the deer ear and leek root are used to make pickles. , leave the leaves to wrap the roasted meat, and then stir-fry it. Then use the leftover potato pieces as the bottom to make a pot of rice, and it’s all done.
Except for rice and cold dishes, everything else had to wait until they came back. So after preparing the ingredients, Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao were replaced on the convenient recliner, each holding a cup. Milk tea, quite petty bourgeois time to enjoy the sun and the scenery.
"Monkey!" A group of uninvited guests came to the tree vines by the stream in the distance. They probably didn't expect to see several horses here. They were startled at first, and then started to climb up the tree. He kept shouting and swaying the branches and vines, trying to scare the horses away.
The big green horse was well-informed, snorted, and slowly led the group of horses away from the tree and went to graze on the lawn.
The monkeys seemed to think they had won. They screamed excitedly a few more times, started to touch around on the tree vines, and then grabbed something and stuffed it into their mouths.
"Is this a macaque?" Mai Xiaomiao felt that she had shouted a little louder just now. Fortunately, the monkeys were distracted by the horse and did not notice it.
"No, this should be a Tibetan emirate." Zhou Zhi slowly put down the milk tea in his hand, and then slowly picked up the digital camera: "The tail of the macaque is relatively long, usually half of the body Longer, while the Tibetan chieftain is much shorter, less than ten centimeters.”
“This is also a national second-level protected animal, and this is the first time I have seen it here.”