The social contradiction, to some degree, corresponds to the social environment. To investigate the source of the risks of rural social contradictions in China, people should proceed from the grand environment of the current social transformation and pay close attention to the diversified and complex structure of the social contradiction sources caused by the structural transformation of society; to the rural ecological problems due to the imbalance of risk sharing and to the conflicts and hidden risks arising in the process of the rapid urbanization and transfer of land-use rights; and to the...