What?is?shown?in?the?table?above?indicates?that?dramatic?changes?have?taken?lace?in?the?people's?daily?expenses?in?Xi'an?from?1995?to?1999.?The?expenses?on?food?have?declined?by?30%?while?those?on?clothing?and?recreation?have?increased?respectivily?by?9%?and?7%.?The?statistics?of?rise?and?fall?seem?to?exist?in?isolation?but?closely?related?to?one?another.