Preliminary Study of the Current Structure of Social Classes and Strata in China

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Abstract
Since the implementation of China's open-door policy, the mechanism of a commodity economy has been injected into the socialist system and changes in the economic arena have affected all other sectors of society, resulting in a social transformation covering a wide range of positions. Growth of a commodity economy has brought about profound changes in the social structure of this ancient nation of ours, ranging from as large an arena as political structure and economic structure to as small an area as community structure and family structure. That the reform has had a profound effect can be seen in the fact that it has touched upon the complex relations between the roles of social groups, organizations, and systems that make up the essential elements of a social structure, and has directly or indirectly affected the social status of all people, entailing new differentiation and accommodation of classes and strata. Our understanding of what these changes in the social structure of classes and strata in China signify and what social consequences they will produce are doubtlessly major theoretic issues that the study of social science should address.

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