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China has been shifting themselves to be more “Consumer Society” in recent years and the trend is more remarkable in metropolitan areas. Social changes along with the rapid economic development in China bring about negative effect of wider economic disparity. This paper sorted out the ascribed factors and social class factors that would be explanatory variable to socio-economic status attainment in Shanghai as the most advanced city in China, obtained data by survey research to individuals in downtown Shanghai, and performed statistical analysis. Results shows there were significant income differences depending on the following categories: 1. Educational background. People with college/graduate school degree have significantly higher income than people without it. 2. Occupational status. White colors and technical specialists have significantly higher income than sales/service person. 3. Employee destination type: People work at foreign owned companies or companies owned by Hon Kong, Macau or Taiwan has significantly higher income than people work at state-owned enterprise, collective-owned enterprise, or self-owned business. On the other hand, we did not find significant differences between people with Shanghai hukou (household registration) or not. We had the similar results from people with either urban hukou or rural hukou.
