The sustaining and rapid growth of Chinese economy is on one hand guided by the government and boosted by the market, on
the other hand the result brought by the change of the social structure. Relative to the past dual social structure, the multiplex social structure in our country can be called “new social structure”. Among it, the intellectual stratum, the private stratum, the managing stratum are the new social strata, just like the worker stratum, they tend to expand except that the peasant stratum is becoming smaller. The strata feature of the newly-rising social groups, the partial weakening of the basic strata, the political property of those being firstly rich, and the expansion of the group with medium income are the main developing tendencies in the new social structure. The running
mechanism of the new social structure is reflected in the prominent
appreciation in making the personnel capital systematic, at the same time reflected in the recessive appreciation in making partial power “capitalized” and unsystematic. At present, the aim to transform the social structure in our country is to further enlarge the scale of the group with medium income so as to form an “olive-shaped” social structure with the middle wide while the head and the bottom narrow. Meanwhile, it serves to promote the social society to further weaken the rigidity, to enlarge the flexibility, to strengthen the “transposition mechanism” of the social strata and to establish a harmonious society.