Since the reform and opening up, we have broken the "big pot" and egalitarianism, and gradually established a distribution system with distribution according to work as the main body and multiple modes of distribution coexisting. This has effectively stimulated social creativity, promoted a large increase in social wealth, and generally improved people's income level. However, in recent years, the income gap between urban and rural areas, regions, industries and members of society has been widening, and the problem of unfair distribution has become prominent.

The party and the government attach great importance to this and have successively issued a series of policies and measures to adjust the distribution relationship. If the basic pension level of enterprise retirees is raised for seven consecutive years, the average annual growth rate will be10%; For eight consecutive years, the "No.1 Document of the Central Committee" concerning agriculture was issued, and the Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee focused on the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and the intensity of benefiting farmers continued to increase; During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the minimum wage was raised 3.2 times on average, with an average increase of12.9% each time; Increase assistance to low-income people, achieve full coverage of the minimum living security system, and basically establish an urban and rural social assistance system; Wait a minute. These measures have begun to achieve positive results. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of rural residents increased by 9.7% and 8.9% respectively, and the income growth of rural residents in 20 10 exceeded that of urban residents for the first time since 1998.

However, we should also see that there are still many problems in the field of income distribution. For example, the national income distribution is excessively inclined to government departments and enterprise departments, and the proportion of residents' income continues to decline; The proportion of labor remuneration in the initial distribution continues to decline, and the income of ordinary workers is low for a long time; The trend of widening income gap between urban and rural residents has not been fundamentally reversed, and the income gap between urban and rural residents still reached 3.23 times in 20 10; The income of monopoly industries is obviously high, and the income gap between industries is still large. In 2009, the salary of the financial industry with the highest average wage was 4.7 times that of the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry with the lowest. "Gray income", "hidden income" and even illegal income exist in large quantities.