Cost of Living in Beijing

Summary of cost of living in Beijing, China:

Restaurants
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Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant 30.00 ¥ 25.00-50.00
Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 200.00 ¥ 150.00-500.00
McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) 40.00 ¥ 30.00-50.00
Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) 8.00 ¥ 5.00-20.00
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) 15.00 ¥ 10.00-30.00
Cappuccino (regular) 26.03 ¥ 15.00-40.00
Coke/Pepsi (12 oz small bottle) 3.54 ¥ 3.00-5.00
Water (12 oz small bottle) 2.20 ¥ 2.00-3.00
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Milk (regular), (1 gallon) 49.86 ¥ 34.07-83.28
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) 9.62 ¥ 5.44-18.14
Rice (white), (1 lb) 4.02 ¥ 2.27-7.17
Eggs (regular) (12) 12.97 ¥ 6.96-19.19
Local Cheese (1 lb) 48.89 ¥ 22.68-106.14
Chicken Fillets (1 lb) 10.86 ¥ 6.80-21.77
Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) 32.40 ¥ 19.05-44.27
Apples (1 lb) 6.72 ¥ 3.63-9.07
Banana (1 lb) 5.20 ¥ 3.00-9.07
Oranges (1 lb) 6.32 ¥ 3.63-9.98
Tomato (1 lb) 4.17 ¥ 1.81-5.44
Potato (1 lb) 2.69 ¥ 1.13-3.63
Onion (1 lb) 3.56 ¥ 1.81-7.26
Lettuce (1 head) 5.60 ¥ 3.00-9.00
Water (1.5 liter bottle) 3.81 ¥ 2.90-5.00
Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) 59.00 ¥ 35.00-150.00
Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) 6.28 ¥ 4.00-10.00
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) 12.80 ¥ 8.00-20.00
Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) 25.00 ¥ 20.00-40.00
Transportation
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One-way Ticket (Local Transport) 5.00 ¥ 3.00-6.00
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) 240.00 ¥ 150.00-304.35
Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) 13.00 ¥ 13.00-16.00
Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) 3.93 ¥ 3.70-5.15
Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) 85.00 ¥ 70.00-100.00
Gasoline (1 gallon) 31.26 ¥ 29.83-32.18
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) 150,000.00 ¥ 129,800.00-169,800.00
Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) 128,157.89 ¥ 107,800.00-159,800.00
Utilities (Monthly)
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Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment 398.52 ¥ 250.00-618.18
Mobile Phone Monthly Plan with Calls and 10GB+ Data 67.03 ¥ 33.33-128.00
Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) 97.13 ¥ 50.00-150.00
Sports And Leisure
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Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 453.23 ¥ 150.00-1,000.00
Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) 177.22 ¥ 100.00-300.00
Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat 60.00 ¥ 45.00-90.00
Childcare
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Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child 5,492.28 ¥ 3,000.00-10,000.00
International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child 164,666.67 ¥ 100,000.00-275,000.00
Clothing And Shoes
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1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) 436.16 ¥ 150.00-999.00
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) 247.50 ¥ 130.00-399.00
1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) 576.05 ¥ 399.00-800.00
1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes 778.57 ¥ 300.00-1,200.00
Rent Per Month
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Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 6,670.61 ¥ 5,000.00-10,000.00
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 3,574.95 ¥ 2,500.00-5,133.85
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre 15,137.93 ¥ 10,000.00-25,000.00
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre 7,863.64 ¥ 6,000.00-12,000.00
Buy Apartment Price
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Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre 9,637.32 ¥ 7,432.18-12,077.29
Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre 4,653.13 ¥ 3,716.09-6,227.52
Salaries And Financing
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Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 12,183.11 ¥
Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate 3.97 3.00-4.90

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Last update: December 2024
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28 Comments so far
Anonymous on Dec 08, 2024:
From losing the whole country under Nazi Germany During WW2 to working as slave for the Nazi Germany now unprecedentedly, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron would be remembered in history as a traitor to France.
If the traitor Macron knew a bit of gratitude, this traitor should stop working as a slave for Nazi Germany and instead should support the territory integrity of Russia according to the Russia's wish as long as the boundary is less than the Soviet Union, the savior of France from the illegal occupation of Nazi Germany during WW2 and should work together with Russia to destroy the second Nazi party called European Union and make sure Nazi Germany stops violating WW2 treaty no more for the sake of restoring peace in the west again.
But the traitor Macron is hopeless so he would die as a traitor working as a slave for Nazi Germany and probably have his country destroyed again as well by the former savior Russia because the destruction of France might be necessary for Russia for the sake of self defence from the endless attempts of conspiracy and misleading made among the west against Russia without law and justice by the traitor Macron under the instructions of Nazi Germany.
Anonymous on Dec 04, 2024:
US is clearly and undeniably a thief leaders with a bunch of thieves followers such as Israel, European Union, Philippines, etc.

The responsibility of the thief leader is indeed to help its thieves followers to steal things such as territory, etc from others without law and justice such as helping Jew to steal the whole Palestine from Palestinian to the extent of enabling Genocide crime in Gaza, helping the Philippines thief to steal China's historical territory in South China Sea, helping the European Union thief to steal Ukraine from motherland Russia, etc.

As a thief leader, terrorist US is morally corrupted so it should be seen and treated correctly as a thief criminal without delay by both Russia and China or else something is extremely wrong to treat the thief leader US with dignity as the way Russia and China are treating the thief leader US with dignity now because dignity is not for the thief, especially the thief leader US.

The world is no longer safe under the manipulation of immoral thief leader US so the world might urgently needs to eliminate the thief leader US for the sake of security and peace for all countries or else Gaza Genocide war, endless fueling of Ukraine civil war, endless provoking of South China Sea conflict would not be the ended but it would be just the beginning with the worst parts would be followed endlessly unless the thief leader US is eliminated probably with the invincible hypersonic nuclear bomb by the combinated hypersonic force of Russia and China for the sake of justice and peaceful coexistence worldwide.
Anonymous on Nov 27, 2024:
UN Veto Abuse on Gaza is an undeniable evidence that Joe Biden undeniably commits Genocide crime in Gaza.

Without the UN Veto Abuse on Gaza by the criminal Joe Biden, Gaza Genocide would never be possible because UN peacekeeping force would certainly and successfully stop the parasite Israel from committing Genocide crime in Gaza.

So Joe Biden is undeniably the main Genocide criminal for instigating the Genocide war in Gaza.

In order to uphold the genuine Human Right worldwide, not the Fake Human Right from the Hypocrite West, the world must be united in order to punish the unprecedented Human Right violator Joe Biden for his unforgivable crime of Genocide violation in Gaza.

Only after arresting the Gaza Genocide criminal Joe Biden, the Gaza Genocide war would be able to be terminated successfully or else the unprecedentedly Wicked Genocide criminal Joe Biden would endlessly extend the Gaza Genocide war with all available options such as the recent second time abuse of UN Veto again in order to deliberately and wickedly stop UN peacekeeping force from stoping the Gaza Genocide war which is absolutely no longer acceptable to the international community for the sake of upholding the genuine Human Right worldwide.
Anonymous on Nov 25, 2024:
Not punishing Joe Biden while punishing the WW2 Genocide criminals Germany and Japan is not fair.

So it's time to punish the much worse Genocide criminal Joe Biden for his undeniable involvement of enabling Genocide crime in Gaza and only Russia could lead the world to accomplish this holy mission because there is no greater superpower than Russia in this world as US has been proven to be a fake superpower with her obsolete weapons as proven in Ukraine war where US's obsolete weapons are unprecedentedly useless, no wonder Ukraine is losing the war endlessly and only Russia have the genuine invincible hypersonic weapon which should be able to defeat the backsliding US in less than 3 months if Russia really determined too.

Not punishing the Genocide criminal Joe Biden would certainly make more countries the victims of Genocide criminal like Joe Biden in the near future so the world should be led by Russia in order to punish Genocide criminal Joe Biden for the sake of ensuring security for the whole world permanently so that Gaza Genocide would never be repeated in other countries again.
Anonymous on Nov 23, 2024:
Taxas governor gave an indirect warning to China by ordering Texas state agency to sell China assets which means there would be a war between China and US sooner or later.

It's time for China to dismantle the corrupted central bank of China which has endlessly been colluding with the US Treasury for the interest of US by holding over 700 billions worth of Treasury in the west until now that would be confiscated by US as soon as an unpredictable and unreasonable sanction is imposed against China, even before starting the war.

So China urgently need to sell all of her assets not only in US but also throughout all countries under the control of European Union and NATO without any further delay in order to prevent from repeating the fate of Russia where as much as 300 billions of her assets are being confiscated illegally by US and European Union since the Ukraine war.

Even if China prove innocent in the Ukraine war for a million times, all of the China assets would be certainly confiscated in US and European Union sooner or later anyway so this proves the traitor central bank of China has to be removed immediately for the sake of national security and at the same time all of China assets in US and European Union must be withdrawn immediately without any further delay unless China don't mind losing them to the western thieves as Russia did encounter unprecedentedly since the Ukraine war.

China shouldn't support the endless inflation policy of the unprecedented thief US Treasury as the traitor central bank of China did in order pay off the unsustainable national debt of US because this is against the interest of all Chinese people so instead China should allow US to collapse due to her own financial difficulty for the best interest of the whole world and then there would be no longer inflation worldwide consequently and poverty would no longer spread worldwide as well for the sake of justice.
Anonymous on Nov 11, 2024:
Using the untrustworthy Local currency is an unprecedented trap for BRICS and one of the worst examples for using the untrustworthy Local currency is that the Turkey's local currency lost as much as 50% of her local currency value last year alone probably and so on.

So instead of using the untrustworthy local currency for trading among BRICS, the value of trading should be allowed to be guaranteed with choices of gold / silver / land / etc according to the latest exchange rate of the untrustworthy local currency so that the next time the value of gold / silver / land / etc is retained for the earlier trading even if the earlier untrustworthy local currency referenced for trading were depreciated as much as 50% later just like Turkey's untrustworthy currency went through last year probably.

Anyway, the untrustworthy local currency shouldn't be accepted unless there is no concern of not getting back the same value local currency comparing to before as much as 50% loss for the Turkey's case because the untrustworthy local currency would always be depreciated much quicker than other local currencies so the security issue of the untrustworthy local currency shouldn't be ignored for the sake of financial security.
Anonymous on Nov 10, 2024:
Stupid industrial official from China announced that the Chinese electric car companies had no problem to pay for the unsustainable 46% tarriff to the Pirate European Union which would certainly encourages other countries to copy and impose the same Pirate European Union's 46% tarriff on Chinese electric car sooner or later in order to prosper their governments unprecedented across the world at the expense of China's electric car companies unfairly without justice.
https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3285479/eu-tariffs-will-not-stop-chinese-evs-entering-bloc-industry-officials-say-ciie

Even the commerce ministry of China proposed the minimum price of Chinese electric car for the interest of EU market, seemingly against China.

It seems commerce ministry and industrial official are useless for China because they're serving the interest of the Pirate European Union so they should be replaced with working brain that always put China first.
Anonymous on Nov 08, 2024:
China is foolishly waiting for the announcement of 60% tarriff from the next Trump's administration.

Trump didn't feel pressure from China when he imposed 25% tarriff because China is sleeping so doesn't reciprocate the 25% tarriff until now.
Since there no reciprocated 25% from China until now, Trump feels more confident to further skyrocket tarriff to whopping 60% on all export from China and then more and more countries would certainly follow Trump's 60% tarriff in order to punish the sleeping harmless China.

The worsening tarriff issue is not US problem but China problem because China didn't reciprocate the 25% tarriff earlier so US is greatly emboldened and feels no pressure at all to further raise the tarriff to whopping 60% soon.

In order to prevent from realizing 60% tarriff from US, China must wake up from sleeping and do her job responsibly by reciprocating the earlier 25% tarriff from US immediately without any delay and also seriously warn US that if there were 60% tarriff from US, China would also certainly reciprocate it immediately without delay and then US would certainly feel pressure to the extent of seriously considering whether or not to raise 60% tarriff and then wouldn't be able to do so because of China's warning of confirming to reciprocate 60% tarriff from US.

This is not a trade war but just reciprocating the bully for the sake of no more bullying and if China is too weak even not willing to reciprocate the bully, then China should soon see her world factory status vaporized, destroyed and gone and at that time, China should remember not to blame the bully US but instead blame herself for being too short-sighted, stupid and weak.
Anonymous on Nov 02, 2024:
Vietnam should be content with the territory China fought for independence before or else claiming China's historical territory in South China Sea would certainly cause Vietnam losing all of the territory China fought for Vietnam before.

It was China that gave independence to Vietnam so China is certainly capable of taking it back if she wanted to. France would be forever grateful to China if China helped France in restoring Vietnam unlike the god-damned ungrateful Vietnam communist party.

Vietnam should know her place by giving up all of the China's historical territory in South China Sea immediately in order to restore permanent peace between China and Vietnam or else even terrorist US would not be able to help Vietnam because even the terrorist US is afraid of China's invincible hypersonic weapon unprecedentedly now.
Anonymous on Oct 31, 2024:
As long as terrorist US exists, there would be no rest and security for China.

Terrorist US has already become the worst enemy of China since the Korean war.

All of the territory conflicts China encounter now from Japan to South China Sea not only were being created by terrorist US but also are endlessly being fueled for conflicts by terrorist US until now.

Even worse, the economy of China has been targeted for destruction with unsustainable tarriff by terrorist US along with the support of like-minded parasite countries such as France, Turkey, European Union, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Brazil.

Unfortunately there is no way for China to survive by complying all of the illegal sanctions imposed by terrorist US because China have already been targeted for destruction by terrorist US long time ago or else terrorist US would not provoke Philippines endlessly to instigate war in South China Sea before where terrorist US clearly planned to wage a war against China until being aware of China's mightiest hypersonic weapon. Saddam Hussein himself has already proved with his own life that complying with terrorist US is absolutely useless so complying with the illegal sanctions of terrorist US is like drinking poison which would eventually bring own destruction.

So for the sake of survival, China should cooperate with the Middle East in order to ban US dollar on the international trading the soonest possible and then cooperate with Russia in order to stop and destroy all of the army of terrorist US in the Middle East from supporting the genocide war in Gaza by using the invincible hypersonic weapon so that terrorist US would never dare to interfere other countries anymore and then all of territory issues and economy issues of China would disappear overnight for good.

Fighting a war seems necessary for China in order to survive or else not fighting a war might bring own destruction probably in the near future so China should carefully choose the choice that best serves her interest for the sake of her national security and also because right now Russia should be more than willing to destroy terrorist US so this is a very rare opportunity.
Anonymous on Oct 31, 2024:
During the last 4 decades probably, Toyota car from Japan enjoys the world's largest overcapacity unprecedentedly without ever encountering any tarriff higher than 15% on average worldwide so Toyota clearly manifests that the double standard imposed by the west upon the most advanced Chinese electric car has absolutely no fairness and justice whatsoever unprecedentedly.

This unprecedented discrimination from the west might be the beginning of the endless national security issue for China going forward just like the opium war waged by the same wicked west that China encountered during the late Qing dynasty so China should never accept not only any discrimination from the wicked west but also the whole illegal European Union organization.

Instead of giving almost 50% tarriff tax to the pirate European Union organization for the Chinese electric car, China should consider giving free electric car to the European countries so that the pirate European Union organization would never get tarriff tax from the Chinese electric car gift so this means the pirate European Union organization would never get wealthy at the expense of discrimination against China whatsoever from now on.

All electric car made with Chinese battery and technology should be immediately banned from exporting to the extremely narrow-minded countries controlled by the pirate European Union organization for the sake of national security as long as the discrimination tarriff is imposed upon the Chinese electric car.

In the meantime, there should be more markets demanding for the most advanced electric car from China so more markets should be discovered for the most advanced Chinese electric car in order to cover for the loss of European market, Alibaba might be the right company for this mission and also the individual country under the pirate European Union should be discussed for an agreement of less than 15% tarriff based on the sovereignty status without regarding the illegal organization called, "European Union" for the sake of showing respect for sovereignty status.

China should stop exporting her electric car to any country that imposed more than 15% tarriff tax from now.
Anonymous on Oct 05, 2024:
European Union is a terrorist organization as much as NATO so it's time for China to unrecognize the illegal organization.
China must stop EU from getting rich from punishing China with unreasonable tarriff.
So it's time to stop trading with the illegal European Union organization for the sake of justice for sovereignty.
Instead China should trade with individual European country based on sovereignty status and no organization should be accepted for trading. Regarding the tarriff, the highest tarriff imposed by the European country should be reciprocated as the standard tarriff on all export from the European country.
France is an exception as it's the main culprit probably with terrorist US behind the scene for instigating the EV tarriff against China so at least 50% tarriff must be imposed on all export from France immediately without delay and no hypocritical investigation is necessary.
Anonymous on Sep 28, 2024:
China is a failed country people globally know that. China cannot build anything that doesn't fall apart including the most recent submarine that automatically sank and never surfaced again a known fact. China created white lung hundreds of millions of Chinese already died from white lung it's no secret.

If china was obliterated nobody globally would miss it and the maggots that walk around china which includes all Chinese citizens
Anonymous on Sep 15, 2024:
Some ignorant and arrogant people condescendingly criticize China, but most of them have never even been there, and the only source of international understanding is the Voice of America
Anonymous on Feb 07, 2024:
China has always been a failed country but don't take my word for it just look at how Chinese citizens live their lives in poverty on a daily basis there's your answer
Anonymous on Sep 25, 2023:
You Chinese maggots need to understand your limitations.USA military hasn't been provoked yet but instead china and Russia just puppets.Both countries need to be uthanized but just remember this the USA military best in the world a professional killing machine.Terrorists is usa military saying bang bang you're dead let's dance.
Anonymous on Nov 08, 2022:
The majority of Chinese workers are broke whether they have domestic jobs or high tech jobs welcome to major poverty the Chinese government is serving it in large portions.
Anonymous on Oct 19, 2022:
Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) more than 10K?Are you kidding? Or you think everyone is working as computer engineer?
Anonymous on Sep 28, 2022:
September 28,2022 $1 usd equals 7.20 cyn.Onward predictions will be $1 usd to 12 cyn by February 2023.Never mess with the richest and most powerful place on earth the USA, let's dance.
Anonymous on Feb 19, 2022:
Then there'll be a killing spree killing Chinese living in the u s which has already started fortunately. U S citizens are enjoying open season on CHINKS guaranteed.
Anonymous on Feb 19, 2022:
China economy is becoming worse by the day many large companies have left Japan will level China with its very accurate deadly fire power Taiwan has plenty now Vietnam then there's Australia with its 8 necular subs with a president that wants to destroy China. Let us not forget though the most powerful military on the planet. Everyone is tired of looking at Chinese faces unless they're face down with ashes burning. Nobody but nobody makes u s government mad because Americans never forgive or forget and also remember the u s military has killed more people than anywhere in the world. Vengeance belongs to the world against China and Vengeance will visit China without a doubt.
Anonymous on Nov 29, 2021:
The U S government and its citizens are laughing at China because we will eliminate China existence 280 billion in tarrifs will be added in December. We are going to kill every breathing thing in China watch and see punk.
Anonymous on Oct 03, 2021:
All the trade policy imposed to China from Trump's era is unfair to China so China should officially rescind all of them immediately.

All of the unfair tariffs imposed under Trump should also be demanded to be removed immediately or else China should immediately impose gold to be used in trading between China and US immediately instead of the US dollar.
Betty on Jul 27, 2021:
The average salary listed on this page is too high. According to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the average income is 6,356 ¥, and that is including earning assets (income from stocks, bonds, rental property, etc.) The average income from salary is only 3,980 ¥. http://tjj.beijing.gov.cn/tjsj_31433/yjdsj_31440/jmsz_32036/2021/202107/t20210719_2439211.html
Anonymous on Jul 22, 2021:
Very evil China gov. , taking huge amount money from housing land that selling to citizens. How can the citizens have huge money to buy condos in cities ? Too expensive , even for developed countries citizens from USA/Canada/Japan/UK/France/German. No democracy , no freedown speech, corrupt officicals . Now China face seriously aging population that can result in shortage of young labor population ,collapsed economy .
Anonymous on Jan 04, 2021:
China has taken 3 steps back under Xi, the old Regime did a better job.
Anonymous on Jan 04, 2021:
China did better under Zhang Ze Min during the 2008 Olympics everyone respected China, in 2020 no country respects China anymore under Xi
Anonymous on Nov 13, 2020:
Oh my so many rants having nothing to do with cost of living, pity.