中日经济高速增长期的中产阶层规模差距比较分析

中日两国同是人口大国,同为政府主导型经济发展模式,同样经历过较长时间的高速经济增长而进入工业化中后期,但日本形成了中产阶层为主的社会结构;而中国到目前中产阶层只占人口总数的23%左右,远低于1975年日本工业化中后期的77%。这一现象来自于两国服务发展、教育、人口城市化、社会保障、税制结构等方面的差异。

Comparative Study on the Difference in the Scale of Middle Class between China and Japan in the Period of High Speed Economic Growth

China and Japan are both big countries with large population;both adopt a government-led development model;and both enter the middle and later stage of industrialization after getting through high speed economic growth in a long period,however,Japan has generated a social structure with a main body of middle class,China now has only 23 percent of the total population being middle class which is much lower than the 77 percent when Japan in 1975.This paper argued that the difference between China and Japan in terms of middle class must be due to the difference in social service,education,urbanization,social security and tax institutional structure between two countries.