ABSTRACT
The resident income gap can be analyzed from many aspects and angles, and this chapter focuses on discussing the urban-rural, regional and inter-industry income gap in China. The urban-rural income gap is the most important component of income distribution inequality of China currently, and the reason that it is concerned by people may be that the urban-rural segmentation is one of the most important problems of China’s economic society, and it has many influences, wherein the income distribution meaning of urban-rural segmentation may be the most remarkable. The regional income gap is the old problem in the income distribution, and the people’s study on the regional gap is long-standing. The chapter investigates the resident income inequality and its evolution process. It also investigates the national, rural and urban income distribution gaps through Gini coefficient, respectively, and then, focuses on analyzing the urban-rural differenece of resident income.
