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Title:: Growth of China’s Intermediate Social Stratum: Uncertainties and Political Answers

Keywords:: social differentiation; social harmony; intermediate stratum; political answers

Abstract:: It is the strategic direction of China’s reform to promote the growth of the intermediate social stratum and to form a social structure with the intermediate stratum as its pillar part. However, in the development of China’s intermediate social stratum, uncertainty exists in many aspects, such as the expansion of the scale of the intermediate stratum, the political role of the intermediate stratum, and the screening role played by the intermediate stratum in constructing social harmony. To cope with these uncertainties so as to guide China’s intermediate stratum to a healthy growth and to promote the political stability and the social harmony, we should take the following mutually supporting political measures: building a just social differentiation mechanism and extensively expanding the social space of the intermediate stratum; supporting the intermediate stratum’s own development and promoting its political maturity; improving the accommodation and coordination capacity of the political system for resolving stratum conflicts caused by the development of the intermediate stratum.