China in a period of social transformation.

China's reform practice over the past decade goes well beyond social transformation theories. While China's social transformation shares certain common features with that of other countries it has unique characteristics: the transformation of social structures was carried out with the transformation of the economic system, while the whole social transformation process showed a tendency to spread from rural to urban areas. The new experience of China's social transformation has attracted the attention of scholars from various disciplines across the world, especially sociologists and economists. Industrialization is a necessary condition for modernization. The transformation from a traditional to a modern society in essence is the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial one. After organizational changes in rural administration and occupational changes among the rural residents are taken into consideration, the actual number of urban residents still showed a substantial increase, the proportion of the total population accounting for about 30 per cent.