Income Inequality and Growth Sustainability in China－ Analyzing Social Direction from the Viewpoint of Health, Education and Pension Policy
Yuji Miura (Senior Economist, Center for Asia Pacific Business, The Japan Research Institute, Limited)
This time I have the publication furtherance of the 24th Pacific rim scientific study furtherance costs and feel really honored. I thank heartily the side of all of Masayoshi Ohira memory foundations and member of administration / the choice committee which had an immature draft read. With a surge of Chinese specific gravity to occupy for the world economy, interest for China in Japan is strengthened day by day. However, information on China we get through media is limited to about two kinds. The one projected China which became a large country. That suggests it become a vital issue for Japanese economy how to take Chinese growth in such as news that number of car sales overtakes U.S. and became the number one in the world. On the other hand, as expansion of income gap is remarkable, social unrest in China become so seriously. The number of riots continues increasing, and a quite a few person feels uneasiness in the future of one-party rule of the Communist Party. The information increased, but, we cannot readily image life-sized China through such apparent information. What kind of development orbit does China trace? Is social unrest with expansion of income gap a temporary phenomenon by too rapid economic growth? Or do they go down the slope which does not stop easily to a tipping point? This book began by facing each other in these doubts. It is a system of medical care, education, pension that I paid attention to. China advocated construction of “harmony society” and wrestled with correction of income gap, but the dual source that these systems distinguished a urban and a rural amplified a income gap and promoted immobilization of a hierarchy. It is a conclusion of this book that destabilization does not stop unless this structure is changed. As for the medical care, the education, the pension, one nothing becomes an independent study domain. In addition, it may be said that a problem that how society become under expanding income gap belong to a psychological domain. One way or the other, at such a point, it was a defiant action. When I finish writing it and review it some other time, there are much strong feeling places with own immaturity, but wants to continue challenging it in future to work hard in having had the furtherance at this time.
Profile
Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1964. He graduate in Social Science from Waseda University in 1989, entered Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and has held a succession of posts such as Researcher of Asia-Pacific Division of Research Deportment, Chief Representative of Hanoi Office and Promoter Asia Business of Planning Department. He joined Asia Pacific Center of The Sakura Research Institute in 1999 and Asia Pacific Business Center of The Japan Research Institute in 2001.His Research interests includes Economics in Asia and Social Protection Policy in China. His recent books are “ODA What Japan can do” (co-editor, Chuoukouronshinsha, 2003), “Internal Economic Disparity in ASEAN” in Co-editor Tkatoshi Ito and Policy Research Institute of Ministry Finance Economic Development of ASEAN and Japan “(Nihonhyouronsha , 2004).
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