Chinese Brill Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 9

This collection of articles is selected from Blue Book of Chinese Society 2020, published in Chinese. Chapter One analyzes and forecasts China's social conditions from 2019 to 2020. Nineteen reports present China’s social conditions in 2019, including income and consumption, employment, social security, education, public health, the quality of social development, megacities, adolescent internet literacy, public concerns, business environment, and others. Findings are presented and analyzed from a number of social surveys on topics such as internet public opinion, food and drug safety, ecological environment, labor relations, poverty alleviation, and others. An overview of the statistics of China’s social development in 2019 is given in the last chapters.