Research on Influences of International Trade on Regional Urban-Rural Income Gap in China

As China's economic development is affected by dual economic structure, the urban-rural income gap is great. In addition to the endogenous factors, opening-up becomes an important issue that affects the urban-rural income gap among the factors causing this phenomenon. China's opening-up policy promotes the rapid development of international trade, leading to the increase of national income in successive years. However, China has been in a state of regional development for a long time and the development of international trade in different regions in unbalanced due to the unbalanced regional economy, thus causing great urban-rural income gap. The influences of international trade on regional urban-rural income gap in China are mainly discussed in this paper. Since the reform and opening up in late the 1970s in China, the trade scale increases rapidly. In the 21st century, China joins WTO and the international trade plays an important role in regulating China's economy. With the development of economic globalization and affected by trade liberalization, the regional urban-rural income gap widens gradually, which has become a social issue to be solved urgently.