As long as the party bosses have big money, and their families can drive their nice cars, "everything is fine" no matter how many people are hurting or starving in the countryside.
The problems are out of sight, and out of mind, except of course the party fears having the common man getting organized and pissed off that them.
20 years ago, over 90% of China's people were peasants. Today, it's about 67%. As time goes on, more and more Chinese will move to China's cities and join China's growing middle-class.