在中国革命、建设和改革事业中,统一战线发挥了重要作用,并且将继续发扬光大。学术界对当前转型时期社会阶层有五种代表性分类方法,对新社会阶层的概念界定和范围界定,提取了新社会阶层的特征。新的社会阶层是社会发展的产物,它的出现是历史的必然;新的社会阶层是中国特色社会主义事业的建设者,是统一战线的重要组成部分,党执政的重要群众基础;新的社会阶层具有社会性;新的社会阶层是我国社会发展到一定阶段必然的产物;新社会阶层具有时代性;新的社会阶层具有一定的历史局限性。未来我国社会阶层结构会呈现加速流动、多元化、从“金字塔”向“橄榄型”发展的趋势。
In China' s revolution, construction and will continue to do so. There are in the academic circles reform, the united front has played an important part, and five representative classification methods for social strata in the current transition period. The demarcation of the concept and the range of the new social stratum has highlighted its features, for it is a result of social progress while its emergence is a necessity of history. As builders of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics, the new social stratum is an important part of the united front and a vital mass base for the administration of the Party. With its sociality, the new social stratum is the inevitable product of certain social progress in China; while it also has some historical limitations because of the impact of the specific era. There will be a developmental trend--rapid mobility, pluralism, and the change from "the pyramid" type to the "olive" shape--for China' s future social strata confizuration.