This book portrays the middle class in contemporary China with plain language and precise professional knowledge in an all-round, broad and responsible way from the perspectives of income, property, profession, education, consumption, investment, physiological and behavioral characteristics, history and development. It gives, in a logical order, the reasons for stimulating the rise of the middle class in contemporary China. It emphatically describes what the middle class is and what the middle class in contemporary China looks like. It also analyzes whether the middle class can rise in China and sheds light on the basic thinking, medium and long-term goals, main measures and current work priorities for achieving full rise of the middle class in contemporary China. As China becomes the world’s largest economy, the new middle class will be the Chinese people facing the world; as such, this book will be of interest to sociologists, sinologists, political scientists, and economists.
Table of Content
Chapter 1 The Urgent Need for the Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China.- Chapter 2 The Origin and Development of Middle Class.- Chapter 3 Who is the Modern Middle Class in China?.- Chapter 4 Analysis of the Status Quo and the Problems of the Middle Class in Contemporary China.- Chapter 5 The Rise of the Middle Class in Contemporary China Looks Promising.- Chapter 6 Valuable Experience Overseas.- Chapter 7 Thoughts and Objectives regarding the Comprehensive Rise of the Middle Class.- Chapter 8 Basic Measures for the Overall Rise of the Middle Class.- Chapter 9 Key Work of the Comprehensive “Xingzhong” （Rise of the Middle Class） at Present.
About the author
Hainan Su is former Director and second-level research fellow at the Labour & Wage Research Institute of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He is author of My Views on Income Distribution, Rational Adjustment of Wage Income Distribution Relations and other professional books on income distribution; he has published more than 200 articles on newspapers and magazines at the central, provincial and ministerial levels.
Hong Wang is an associate research fellow at the Labour & Wage Research Institute of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and an executive member of Compensation Committee of China Association for Labour Studies; she took charge of completing more than ten research programs at the provincial and ministerial levels.
Fenglin Chang is Deputy Director and associate research fellow of the Labour & Wage Research Institute of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and doctor of economics from the School of Finance, Renmin University of China.
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