"It's a pity that a big part of the social fortune created by China's rapid economic growth is unequally distributed. This has not only widened the income gap and the gap between the rich and the poor, it has also become the biggest threat to social stability."

Zhang Juwei, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Population and Labor Economics, speaking at a news conference on the academy's release of an economic blue book.

(China Daily 05/21/2013 page2)