A Study of Income Distribution in China

As the country with the fastest economic growth in the world, China is faced with the extremely complex income distribution showing both the commonalities of market economies with rapid development and the particularity of China’s institutional mechanism. To study and understand income distribution, it is not only necessary to start with the general law of the development of market economy but with China’s unique system and mechanism. Otherwise, it will be difficult to clearly depict the essence of China’s income distribution. This book is the result of the major project of the National Social Science Fund. This project on China’s income distribution, one of the four major issues when central government leaders came to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in spring festival of 2011, becomes the task of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics. According to the plan, the project was aided by experts from other institutes of the Academy of Social Sciences and well-known experts from other institutions outside the Academy of Social Sciences.

Cai Fang, former Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), secretary-general of the presidium of CASS, Member of CASS, chief researcher of the National High-end Think Tank at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. His main research areas include labor economics, population economics, economic growth, income distribution, China's economic reform, etc. His main works include China's Economic Development and Its Implications to the World, Beyond the Demographic Dividend, Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts, The“Belt and Road" Handbook (editor-in-chief), and China Wisdom (editor-in-chief), etc.
 
Zhang Juwei, Director General of Institute of Population and Labor Economics (formerly Institute of Population Studies), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Major Publications are Poverty and Nutritional Elasticity in Rural China, A Study of Employment Elasticity in China, , Monographs such as Population, What Will It bring to China (With Cai Fang et al, Population, Ecology and Sustainable Development in China, etc.
 
Wen Yayun, an associate professor of Foreign Language School，Zhejiang Gongshang University. She received her Master's degree in English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University in 2000. She has published over 10 articles.