Title: The income gap between the rich and the poor in Chinese society
As our society develops at a fast speed, the income gap between the rich and the poor gets enlarged. The main reason is that economic development is not balanced between eastern and western cities, urban and rural areas. Many professors think it’s a good phenomenon for some of our citizens get rich and then helps the whole society. While I insist that the government should keep balance to reduce the income gap，for the unbalanced development will bring several problems such as social unrest, limitations for economic growth and so on.
Firstly, the bigger income gap will result in social unrest. “It’s worth noting that according to experience in many countries and regions, social contradictions will increase as per capita GDP grows from the 1,000 US dollar level to the 3,000 US dollar level. China is precisely in this period,” says the article. “Decision makers should not turn a blind eye to the big income gap.” (Christina, p. 6) People also regret about hefty income of monopoly industries, for instance, electricity and fossil oil, which widens income gap and worsened social equality. Finally it will result in collapse of the society. Nowadays in China, the conflict is apparent, which is closely linked with widened income gap. In Ningbo, Zhejiang province, more than 50 cars were partly damaged by a male who was about 30, who envied the rich people for a long period. While the famous ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed out: social unrest “are often challenged for” inequality “reason”, “infighting is always a requirement ‘equality’ wishes the seedling grow.” (Hu, Lianhe, p. 4) The explanation is that people care about treating with justice. While quite a large amount of individuals believe the phenomenon that income gap is widening is not reasonable. They hold the opinion that many individuals get richer through an improper way, such as corruption and bribes. As a consequence the number of crimes increases which caused quite horrible impacts.
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Secondly, it is also bad for our domestic economic development. The unbalanced wealth distribution will reduce the average citizen’s consumption level. That is because the rich tends to conserve the extra amount of money instead of spending it in contributing to society. While the lower income group has more demands but lack money to buy. In this way we can’t expand the domestic demands, but hinders the economic growth in return.
Thirdly, it can not promise individual’s basic rights in law as most inhabitants especially in some remote areas. Although almost everyone in China has already reached the basic living standards, there are still many children who don’t have opportunities to receive compulsory education. If the government gives allowance to those families, not only there will be more and more people treated equally but also the income gap gets narrower than before. As we all know, knowledge is power. And education is the main source of gaining knowledge. The higher our education level is, the wealthier China will be.
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Although the policy that promises some of the rich gets richer does bring several advantages to our society, it is not conducive for further growth for Chinese economy. To narrow the gap, our government still has a lot more to do, “especially in pushing forward in an orderly way the reform of property rights of state assets, breaking monopolies that have formed on administrative orders and establishing a sound social security net.” (Christina, p. 10)
References
1. Christina. Income gap in China reaches alert level. 2005, September 21, 2013/5/21
2. Luo, Dan. Income Gap Widening in China: Survey. 2013, April 14, 2013/5/21
3. Hu, Lianhe. How does the income gap between the rich and poor influence the stability in the society. 2011, March 14, 2013/5/21
