The Study Of Social Stratum And The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor In China

Since 1978 when the new policy of Reform and Open-Door was inaugurated in China, the Chinese economy has begun its taking-off. Accompanying the economic boom, a rapid transition of the social structure is speedy, which is paralleled by the notable changes in industrial structure, employment structure, urban-rural structure and social stratum structure. Nevertheless, an equally rapid change has been seen in interest differentiation of the society, which is characterized by a widening income disparity between people in different units, different trades, different regions, the enterprises of different ownerships as well as between rural and urban areas. In the mean time, the disparity between labor income and capital profit is also boarding. This kind of the gap between rich and poor, although still express primarily for income disparity now, have appeared the disparity of the wealth in a certain extent. | The gap between rich and poor, can be subdivided the disparity between rural and urban areas , the disparity among different regions and the disparity among different industry, but all of them ultimately express for the disparity among social each stratum.Stratum, is to observe society through upright change of status . The essence of the stratum is changes. The widening of people's income gap is the hot spots of social and economic life in our country．Both our government and the theoreticians are trying their best to find solutions of this problem．This essay , on the basis of analyzing the present situation andcause of the widening of the people's income gap and the effect on society, through comparative analysis, micro-analysis, macro-analysis and integration of theory and practice, tries to explore the methods to relieve the widening of people's income gap. With the continuous deepening in reform and opening-up, especially with the gradual perfection in the structure of market economy and the changes In the structure of ownership,there appeared drastic changes of social stratification in China during the transformational process from traditional society to modem society, from agricultural society to industrial society and from closed society to open society. Besides the changes that have taken place inside the traditional working class and peasants' class, new social strata are also in the process of being born. For example, the stratum of entrepreneurs, the stratum of owners of privately owned businesses and the stratum of indiviual workers, ete. and every stratum is now forming its own special interests． The changes in social stratification in the process of modernization is an inevitable social phenomenon with the development of social division of labor and the execution of the market mechanism, and are exerting ever-increasing profound influences on China's contemporary socialist politics．...