Through analyzing the time and space characteristics of income differences between urban and rural inhabitants of Hunan province,these differences are found out having experienced 4 stages.The income differences between urban and rural inhabitants are bigger,and the differences between regions are remarkable.This paper emphasizes its analysis on the changes of space pattern in urban and rural income differences during 1998-2003.The result shows that the space pattern of urban and rural income differences in Hunan Province transits from circle and layer pattern to belt patter.The space pattern ...