The Dual Social Transition and the Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Social Order

The contemporary Chinese social order is experiencing a rapid transition which can be seen from the rapid changes in such key elements of the social order as the social rule system, the social authority and the ideas of values, including their contents and their mutual relations. This transition is originated from the dual social transformation which is the concrete expression of the social order transformation given by the general motive. From the perspective of the key elements and levels of the social order, the contemporary transformation of Chinese social order takes a form of step-by-step progress and has extraordinarily complicated features and this has made the social subjects face a difficult choice in constructing a new social order.