The chart below gives information about the household percentage of spending on essential goods in China for the years 1995 and 2011 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

All in all, It is evident that for Chinese people food remained a main necessity throughout the entire period given.

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the list of expenditures with medicine being the lowest after all. In 1995 people in China used to spend most of their household income on Food which constituted 68% of their budget, but after just over a decade it declined

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merely 9%. Interestingly, other needs

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as Clothing were the second on the expenditure list with 19% of their budget dedicated to it which eventually decreased to 18% making up just under a fifth of the graph in 2011. Looking at Household goods which turned out to be of the least priority in 1995, their expenses on these were only 9%.

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, in 2011 the former experienced a slight growth and comprised only just over one in ten(12%) of the chart. When it came to Medicine, Chinese residents seemed not to care about it much resulting in only 4% of their total expenses

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even after 16 years

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index rose to 11% making it the least important of all household-related spending.