| Industrial structure reflects the association between different industries of a country or a region, which is also one of determinants for economic development and used to evaluate economic development of a country or a region. For a specific region, industrial structure determines the economic qualities and strength. Whether economic structure is reasonable or not is vital to the stable, healthy and rapid economic growth. In the long run, economic competition is the competition of industries of different regions, and comprehensive competitive strength is determined by the competitive strength of main industries. Economic growth is mainly determined by industrial structure, so if industrial structure is reasonable, economy will increase rapidly, and vice versa. Industrial structure and economic growth are interdependent and can stimulate each other. In some situation, industrial structure upgrade is the foundation and stimulus for economic development, and different patterns of economic growth require different industrial structures. In other words, economic growth will help upgrade economic structure. In this article, the main topic is the study of economic structure evolution in Shandong Province, and the main contents are about the industrial structure and economic growth of Shandong Province. After exploring the relationship between industrial structure and economic growth through empirical analysis, this article points out the mutual influence between industrial structure and economic growth, and make some proposals on how to promote the economic growth of Shandong through upgrading of industrial structure.The article is divided into five parts. The first part is the introduction, the main topic of which is to discuss the purpose and significance on the domestic industrial structure and economic growth theory research, this paper, the main contents of this article and research methods ,the innovation and inadequacies of this article. The second part summarizes the theories on the evolution of industrial structure and theories of economic growth, and clarifies the concepts of industry, industrial structure and economic growth. It also expounds domestic and overseas theories in this field and research results, and analyzes the mechanism in which industrial structure upgrade promotes economic growth. The third part is about the evolution of Shandong's industrial structure and its cause. It mainly expounds the principle and main characteristics of international industrial structure evolution, and analyzes the evolution of Shandong's industrial structure and the cause for the evolution. The fourth part is the empirical analysis of the effects on Shandong's economic growth made by its evolution of industrial structure. In this part, the analyses focus on the relationship between industrial structure upgrade and economic growth, the course of economic growth of Shandong, and the effects on economic growth caused by Shandong's industrial structure upgrade. Through economic model, the evolution of industrial structure and its favorable impacts and adverse effects on economic growth are explained, the relationship between them analyzed. The fifth part is about the analysis on the effects caused by industrial structure upgrade on economic growth and adjustment on industrial structure. In this part, comprehensive analyses on the effects caused by industrial structure upgrade on economic are made based on the conclusions in this article and on the current trend of international industrial structure development. Through the analyses on the chances and challenges faced with Shandong's industrial structure adjustment, the direction and path in which the Shandong government should take in the course of economic development are proposed. |
