A member of the Yichun municipal committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (left) solicits opinions from a resident of a residential complex in Yichun, east China's Jiangxi province, Jan. 27.
BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Over the past months, widening income gaps and strains on social security in some of the world's most developed capitalist countries have become a heated topic of discussion in China and beyond.