China's Urban-rural Income Gap Changes And Their Impact Factor Analysis

Since China's reform and opening up in 1978, China's economy has made great achievement. While with the rapid growth of economy, the income gap between urban and rural residents keep fluctuantly enlarging. Presently, China's income gap between urban and rural areas has become the largest all over the world, which is also one of the most serious socioeconomic problems in all the problems we are facing nowadays. The great income gap is directly related to sustainable economic development, the deepening of reform and the stability of our society. Therefore, the study of income gap between urban and rural areas has practical significance as well as academic value. The current academic study on this issue has gone deep into it and provides a solid foundation for this thesis. This paper is developed on the basis of accumulated studies, in the hope of some breakthrough and innovation.The first part, which is the introduction part of this paper, is concerned with the study background, content and the current studies of the Urban-rural income gap. Meanwhile it also deals with the study method, ways of thinking and innovative points of this paper. The second part of this paper first generalizes and summarizes study methods and calculating indexes used. Meanwhile it analyses the ratio and index involved. In third part, it discusses and concludes the changing, development and current situation of China's income gap in a staged way. Then it predicts, via the statistical analysis of time series, the futural development of income gap between urban and rural areas. The fourth part systematically explores the causes of income gap. The conclusion is that the income gap has its endophytism: the economic development, urbanization and industrialization endogenesis reasonable income gap which is defined as natural gap in this paper. Besides, the more important part is uannatural ones which are caused by dominant systematic factors. This paper divides these factors into two parts: the selection of developing strategy and the structuring of political system. After analysing, this paper come to a conclusion that these two factors act together and impel the enlargement of income gap. Chapter five ot this paper testify the normative analysis in the third part, via the dynamic economertic analysis. The conclusion echos to the previous result. The sixth part focuses on the discussion of narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, and the changes of system.