China's Middle Class in Making by Dr Hyun Bang Shin, LSE
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China’s Middle Class in Making Dr Hyun Bang Shin Senior Lecturer Department of Geography and Environment The London School of Economics and Political Science [email protected]
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China’s Middle Class in Making
Dr Hyun Bang Shin
Senior LecturerDepartment of Geography and EnvironmentThe London School of Economics and Political Science
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China’s City-based Accumulation
“ 城市，让生活更美好Better City, Better Life”
The Chinese phrase actually means…
“City makes your life happier”
Investment as the greatest contributorto GDP growth
Source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/weekly/2012-01/20/content_14480020.htm
The Economist, 3 January 2008Source: http://www.economist.com/node/10429271
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Middle Class as Key to Consumption
Proletarianisation and Middle class in making
Two processes as two sides of the same coin
Cheap labour as the cornerstone of China’s rise
Workers’ aspiration to climb up the suzhi ladder. Person attributes
China’s rise and technological upgrading: limits on absorbing rural surplus labour in the manufacturing sector
Middle Class in making hinges on:
China’s long-term economic development
Middle Class in making hinges on: Future prospect of uneven regional development
Source: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_1982_f06/regional_development.jpg
Middle Class in making hinges on:Social stability
United voice ... demonstrators protest against alleged pollution from a paper factory in Qidong, near Shanghai. Photograph: Peter Parks/Getty
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/21/environment-activists-china-pollution-protest
