ABSTRACT
The ownership structure has changed from single public ownership to a system of mixed ownership in which a variety of economic elements develop side by side, with public ownership as the mainstay. All social strata found in modern societies have appeared in China, and some have reached a considerable scale. Contemporary China is in a process of transformation from a traditional agricultural and rural society to an industrialized, urbanized, and modernized society. The order of social strata in the modern structure of social strata in China has been established. China’s social system reform, the adjustment of social structure, and the development of social undertakings, by contrast, have lagged behind. China’s current structure of social strata is naturally and spontaneously formed under the impetus of economic development and against the background of the lag of social system reform and the absence of appropriate social policies.
