During China's economic reform of 1978, the social structure in the country underwent many changes as the working class began to increase significantly. In 21st-century China, social structure is more reliant on employment and education, which allows citizens to have more social mobility and freedoms.

The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.

Ancient Chinese society was incredibly structured, with each person knowing exactly where they sat on the social hierarchy. As early as the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046 to 256 BC), all of the people in China were assigned to one of four social groups, also known as social ‘classes’.

China also practised a social hierarchical structure in its societies that were divided into classes. The social classes of Ancient China Hierarchy can beclassified into four major categories. These were shi, nong, gong and shang. The shi were also called as scholars, nong as farmers, gong as artisans and shang as merchants.

2025年2月1日 · China - Dynastic Rule, Social Hierarchy, Confucianism: Chinese society continued to be highly stratified during the early Qing. Hereditary status groups ranged from the descendants of the imperial line down to the “mean people” at the bottom of the social ladder.

The order of precedence in China is the ranking of political leaders in China for the purposes of event protocol and to arrange the ordering of names in official news bulletins, both written and televised. It is also sometimes used to assess perceived level of political power.

Over the last two decades, China’s social structure has undergone significant changes. While still largely an agricultural country with more than 70 percent of the population being farmers, China has evolved into a mixture of a quasi-capitalist economy …

Every society has social classes of the first consideration, but only a feudal society, or a society like traditional India, has social strata of the second conception. In China, ever since the collapse of the feudal states, the conceptions and the actual forms …

At this time, the present north China was invaded and occupied by the Mongols and other northern tribes. The Jìn royal court had to move across the Yangtze River [Chinese: Chángjiāng 长江] to the south. Many of the high officials and their families went along. Then the culture in the south was still low compared with that of the north.

Chinese royal hierarchy was almost same as that of the British royal hierarchy. The evolution of royal system in China was between the eras of 1122 BC and 256 BC. This system emerged in the ruling era of the Zhou dynasty to the Qin dynasty.