Chapter 6: Evolution Process and the Trend of Income Differential

Domestic and foreign academic circles have heavily researched China's income disparity; generally, all research conclusions show that since the reform and opening up, the income differentials have presented a tendency of unceasing expansion. The difference has been mainly concentrated on the method to judge the social and economic significance of this differential; for example, whether the existing differential has been overstated, whether to present the polarization, whether China displays a Kuznets' inverted U curve, how will the income differentials evolve in the future, and other questions of this nature.