This collection of articles have been selected from the
Blue Book of Chinese Society 2019
, originally published in Chinese. Chapter one analyzes and forecasts China's social conditions from 2018-2019. Seventeen reports present China’s social condition in 2018, including income and consumption, employment, social security, welfare assistance, education, public safety, social and political participation, reconstruction and development after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, online public opinion. Findings are presented and analyzed from a number of social surveys on the public’s social and political participation, internet use among college students born in 1995-1999 and among adolescents, cyber security, volunteer services, and the conditions of poor households. Food and drug safety, ecological construction and China-US trade relations were given in-depth analysis. A statistical overview of China’s social development in 2018 is given in the appendix.