城镇新居民是改革开放以来涌现出的新居民群体。据国家统计局城市社会经济调查队在1999年8月份开展的15万户城镇居民家庭基本情况调查表明,目前新居民家庭占全国城镇居民家庭的4.1%。新居民在当前和未来几年中将是商品房的主要消费群体。新居民家庭购买住房的比重较小,户均购房支出明显高于全国平均水平。据调查,截至1999年8月底,全国有55.7%的城镇居 The new residents in urban areas are the new residents emerging from the reform and opening up. According to a survey conducted by the Urban Social Economic Investigation Team of the National Bureau of Statistics in 150,000 urban households in August 1999, it shows that at present, new residents make up 4.1% of the total urban households in China. New residents in the current and future years will be the main consumer groups of commercial housing. The proportion of new-home households buying houses is small, and the expenditure per household on purchasing houses is obviously higher than the national average. According to the survey, as of the end of August 1999, there were 55.7% of urban residents in the country