Abstract:

This paper made a survey on the level and variation of chinese the income differential among chinese rural residents in recent years. With the method of absolute differences in index, the relative differences in index and relative theory, the income differential among chinese rural residents from 1997 to 2008 was analyzed. The results showed that the absolute differences variation of the income differential among chinese rural residents kept growing and the relative difference kept pace with the average level, but in growing trend. Hence, the income differential among chinese rural residents had been increasing with the development of the economy. Besides analysis and discussion, some countermeasures and suggestions were proposed to deal with this situation.