From a survey result (CASS, 2004), there are less than 10% Chinese people justify themself as owning a upper or medium-to-upper social status, but the people who consider they have a middle social status are account for nearly 40%. All of these people who subjective identified themselves are middle or higher class accounts 46.8% in China. Hence in terms of subjective judgment, almost half of the Chinese people feel like they are middle class.
In general, a survey from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2009) shows that there are almost 60 million Chinese people are middle class, who meet all the criterions discussed above, and accounts 7% of the whole population.
2.3 Features of Chinese Middle Class
Since China’s middle class today is already large in absolute terms, and so many retailers and businesses are already eager to penetrate the Chinese market (OECD, 2010), to find out the common features of the Chinese middle class is very important. According to the McKinsey Global Institute (2006 a), there are two features of China’s emerging middle class are already particularly notable: firstly, the Chinese middle class is unusually young compared with that of most developed markets, whose highest earners tend to be middle aged; and secondly, the urban middle class will dwarf the current urban-affluent segment in both size and total spending power (McKinsey, 2006 a).
从调查结果（卡斯，2004），有不少于10%中国人民证明自己拥有一个上限或medium-to-upper社会地位，但谁的人认为他们有一个中产阶级的社会地位都占了近40%。所有这些人的主观确定自己是中等或更高的46.8%类帐户在中国。因此，在主观判断，几乎有一半的中国人觉得他们是中产阶级。
一般来说，一份来自中国社会科学院（2009）显示，大约有60000000的中国人是中产阶级，谁满足所有标准以上讨论，占全国人口的7%。
2.3个特点的中国中产阶级
由于中国的中产阶级，今天已经是大的绝对值，和许多零售商和企业已经渴望进入中国市场（经合组织，2010），找出共同的特点，中国的中产阶层是非常重要的。据麦肯锡全球研究所（2006），有一个特点，中国新兴的中产阶级已经特别值得注意：首先，中国的中产阶层是非常年轻的比较，最发达的市场，谁的收入最高的往往是中年；其次，城市中产阶级的urban-affluent相形见绌部分在大小和总消费能力（公司，2006）。
