What are the basic features of China's social structure?

The basic characteristics of China's social structure are diversification and complexity.

With the development of industrialization, marketization, urbanization and science and technology, the social structure of China has undergone profound changes. In cities, the social structure has been similar to the spindle society, that is, middle-income groups are the main body, while in rural areas, the "inverted T-shaped structure" still exists, and the bottom groups of society are huge.

2. Large-scale population migration, changes in employment and lifestyle, as well as the extensive use of modern technologies such as the Internet and artificial intelligence, have made the changes in China's social structure have the characteristics of time and space compression. This change is not only reflected in the economic level, but also involves the adjustment of social relations and social structure.

The relevant knowledge of social structure is as follows:

1. Social structure is a complex concept, which refers to the composition and relationship model of social members who occupy certain resources and opportunities in a country or region. This includes the relatively fixed arrangement, combination and relationship among various social elements such as role personality system, value standard system, power system and behavior exchange system.

2. In Zhao Dingxin's book What is Sociology, he defined social structure as the heterogeneous distribution of materials, people, social actions or information in time and space that can be observed, described and analyzed. This means that social structure is not only an objective fact, but also the object of social scientists' analysis and research through scientific methods.

3. In addition, it is worth noting that the real social structure may not be a simple pyramid structure, but more like a mesh structure, including small networks formed by key power and resource controllers, as well as some peripheral personnel networks and important internal nodes. This network structure can better reflect the real face and complexity of society.

4. Social structure also includes social classes and social categories. Social stratum refers to different groups in society, which are divided into different grades according to their economic status, education level and professional status. Social category refers to different groups in society, which are classified according to their race, gender, age, religion or other characteristics.