Research On Causes And Measures Of The Urban-rural Income Gap In Tibetan Areas In Qinqhai Province

According to the history of developed countries, disparity in income is unavoidable between rural areas and cities. China, as a developing country, is not an exception to this rule. After its implementation of opening policy to the outside world, China has gained an enormous prosperity. With this prosperity came the increasing income disparity between rural area and cities. However, it is not universally the same degree in which cities differ from rural areas in their income level. Compared with eastern-central area, western area, which is an ethically minority populated region, has seen greater level of income disparity. It’s more apparent that in the same province, a region where multiple ethnicities live together has more serious income disparity than other non-minority populated regions. If the income disparity increases at an extreme rate, it not only negatively affect the success of building a small-scale prosperous society, but also brings instability to the harmonious environment in which many different ethnicities live together in China’s socialist social system. Therefore, this thesis paper takes Tibetan area in Qinghai Province as the sample, accurately study the degree to which income disparity exists in western minority populated region. Doing research on formation of income disparity between cities and rural areas and how to effectively manage this situation has a significant meaning to the construction of guiding theory.Based on multiple research findings, this thesis paper has done an analysis of the income disparity tendency on Qinghai Tibetan plateau from various perspectives such as economic, regulation, cultural and natural environment and explained the reasons why income disparity changes from time to time. The conclusion reached through analysis is that income disparity is due to historical reason in Tibetan community. There are many reasons why this is the case in Tibetan region, among them are natural conditions, social regulations, people’s ideology and workforce competency.This whole paper is divided into five parts; die first part is about preface in which i raised question and presented the value of doing such a research through documenting the income disparity between cities and rural areas both domestic and international; the second part is about the theoretical foundation and research techniques. These are going to be used to measure income disparity and analyze the forces behind it. With the guidance of many previous research findings, this paper will adopt the research technique of definition and quantifying; the third part analyzes current status and future trend of income disparity in Tibetan areas; the forth is about the main idea of this whole paper, the economical and non-economic reasons that make this income disparity exists in Tibetan community according to the overall conditions of Tibetan region; the fifth part presents effective measures to deal with this serious income disparity.