| In 2008, the financial crisis boomed in America., which also had a negative effect on China's investment and export trade. At present, the whole nation are stimulating domestic demand to promote our economy. This paper takes Beijing and Shanghai—two big modern cities as the main discussing places, deeply comparing the two cities' consumption and analyzing consumers role on improving economy. It proposes constructive advices for looking for resent and future consumption hot points, stimulating expenditure and upgrading people's consumption structure.Based on a series of data between 1998 and 2005 about citizens' income, consumption and saving both in cities and villages, this work illustrates Beijing and Shanghai. It anatomizes factors, tendency and structure of people's consumption, simplifying consumption problems which seemed complicated. Comparing their respective expenditure, the paper summarizes the problems which restrict consumption rise. And it proposes policies and principles to solve these problems, for example, looking for resent and future consumption hot points, stimulating expenditure and upgrading people's consumption structure.This paper applies an analytical method of combining theory and practice, basing on statistical data and character materials, introducing the statistical software SPSS, and referring to plentiful literatures and known means. It comes to conclusions by the way of combing theoretical analysis with practical survey, and combining quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis.The work shows an innovation when comparing the two substantially different cities' consumption and analyzing their respective effect on economy. Consumption is a wide area as well as its research bound. Therefore, limited by the material collected and other factors, it only analyzes several aspects which are closely related to consumers. With this limit, it requires more materials and more comprehensive research in future's work. |
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