Author: Li Peilin, Zhang Yi

Abstract: Since China took the new policy of reform and opening up, an important policy the government has taken is to change the traditional strategy that gives priority to production instead of to improvement of people's living standard and that emphasizes accumulation instead of consumption．During the 20 years since the reform policy was introduced, a rule has been clearly seen that every rise of economic development is closely related to ordinary people's consumption．What's worth notice is that a tendency of consumption stratification is becoming evident as a result of the widening of the income gap．Therefore．While making the policy to accelerate economic development and stimulate consumption．The government has to take consumption stratification into account．

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