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.
