With China's rapid economic growth, the widening wealth  gap between different social groups has increasingly become an outstanding problem in the country.China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has released the country's official Gini coefficient publicly for the first time since 2001.The Gini coefficient is a key measure of income and wealth distribution in a country. It measures income distribution on a scale of zero to one, where zero means perfect equality and 1 equals perfect inequality.
-Liu Baocheng, Professor in the Business School of the University of International Business and Economics.
-Mike Bastin, Researcher at Nottingham University's School of Contemporary Chinese Studies.
-Jackit Wong, Asia Pacific Economist for Natixis Bank.
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