The paper analyses two cross-section national household surveys, relating to the years 1988 and 1995, to explain the rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per capita increased from 38 to 45 per cent, i.e. by 1,0...

This paper attempts to analyse certain significant aspects of increasing income inequality in China in the nineteen years since the start of economic system reform. Materials and data used in this paper are partly from a sample survey of rural and urban households made by the income distribution...