Wealth gap poses threat to stability

Income disparity major reason for recent disturbances: Study

The country's widening wealth and income gap is posing a serious threat to its social stability, senior Chinese sociologists warned on Friday.

"There has been an increasing number of mass disturbances occurring in recent years related to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor," Yan Ye, the vice-professor of the North China Institute of Science and Technology, told China Daily on Friday in Beijing.