一、当前我国收入分配中存在的问题（一）城乡居民收入差距扩大受二元经济结构的影响，我国城乡居民之间收入水平一直存在着一定差距，特别是20世纪80年代以来这一差距有所扩大，90年代后期差距进一步拉大（详见表1）。从表1可以看出，1996～2000年的5年间，城镇居民收入增长较 I. Current Problems in Income Distribution in China (I) Expanding Income Gap between Urban and Rural Residents Due to the dual economic structure, there is always a gap between the income levels of urban and rural residents in China. This gap has been especially high since the 1980s The expansion widened the gap widened further in the late 1990s (see table 1 for details). As can be seen from Table 1, the incomes of urban residents have been increasing over the five years from 1996 to 2000