This book presents a collection of articles on income distribution and poverty reduction in China, written by leading experts in China. The chapters address a broad range of topics, including the income gap, informal employment, education, urbanization migrant workers, the middle-income group, household wealth and inequality in urban areas, income distribution with regard to the formal economy, mixed economy and labor, and the social security system. In closing, the book provides concrete policy recommendations.

Fang Cai, Ph.D. in economics, is formerly vice president of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and formerly director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at CASS (1998 -2014). Cai has been a visiting scholar at many universities around the world. Cai was also a delegate to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 12th National People’s Congress, and a standing committee member of both the National People’s Congress and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.