Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Conditions

This collection of articles selected from the Blue Book of Chinese Society 2018, originally published in Chinese, reviews China's social condition from 2017 to 2018. Chapter one offers an overview. Chapters two to seven present China's social conditions in 2017 from six aspects, including urban and rural income and spending, employment for college graduates, social security system, education system, healthcare, and public safety. In chapters eight to nineteen, findings are presented and analyzed from a number of social surveys on topics such as the sharing economy, college students, new white-collar urban workers, online public opinion and others. A statistical overview of China's Social Development in 2017 is given in the last chapter.