An Analysis On The Poverty Gap In Current Society Of China And The Countermeasures

China's economy has made a great leap since the opening and reforming in 1978. However, with the rapid growing economic developing arise many social issues, which have direct impact on building a harmonious society. Poverty gap is one of the most prominent issues in China's current society.According to the research of the authoritative departments, the Gini coefficient of current China's society is among about 0.452 and 0.467. The data suggests that China has a great income difference, as the Gini coefficient is far above the generally accepted international safe line. Worth noting is that, some remarks that China's Gini coefficient is virtually larger than that of officially announced for different statistic standards.Undoubtedly, the wide poverty gap in China's society may inevitably have an unhealthy effect on every class of the entire society. For instance, it may reduce of crime cost, whereas cause easily the crime of theft, robbery, cheating and even blackmail; it may cause the unfriendly atmosphere to the reforming and opening policy from the low income group so that rocks the political base and weakens the governing power; it may shake-up the basic faith on social justice and fairness from the vast weak group, and accordingly affects the public credibility, unstable the society and even affects the establishment of the harmonious society.Why does the poverty gap become so large in less than three decades from the equalitarianism before the reform and opening? It is mainly because the binary urban and suburban census register system is not abolished for fair opportunities of education, employment, social security, and Medicare since reform and opening, especially when the socialist market economic system started. On the contrary, more public policies, for the advantage of the strong group are put into effect. As a result, the Matthew Effect of the rich and the poor is made into being, the artificial factors which lead to the effect are exactly the essential cause that brings to the weak group the doubt about social fairness and injustice, and the contradict atmosphere at the reform and opening policy.Therefore, significant measures should be taken to narrow the poverty gap, if China expect to establish a harmonious society and improve the political level. First, policies should be made out under the principle of social fairness, so that every mainstay in the market could be able to fairly join into the social competitive; Secondly, irrational systems and rules such as binary urban and suburban census register system and regional discriminations in the recruitment of civil service staff, should be abolished to agree with the healthy developing of market economic society; Thirdly, public policies should be made for protecting the benefits of the weak group; Lastly but not less importantly, the social security system and Medicare system for the weak group should be improved, and charity agents should be encouraged. The above measures for narrowing the poverty gap should better be made into effect immediately so as to establish a solid foundation for the build of a harmonious society.