. Economic activities have shifted from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the high-productivity industrial sector and … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line … continued. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line. …