Structural Change Effect And Technical Advance Effect Of Chongqing’s Economic Growth

Structural Change Effect and Technical Advance Effect are the main indexes tomeasure a region’s economic growth whether has lasting power. Informed researchespoint out that the East Asian growth pattern is based on the input of factors like capital,labor force, which is lack of lasting power, so it is considered unsustainable. Whiledomestic scholars argue that although in China’s economic growth the StructuralChange Effect is declining, the technical advance is still obvious and shows a risingtrend. Therefore, China’s economic development has the sustainable element.Chongqing, located in inland of China, its market mechanism is not perfect andtechnical advance is relatively backward. But as the only municipality in west China,Chongqing’s economic development affects the whole western China and influences theconstruction of China’s fourth growth pole. It is necessary to explore the StructuralChange and Technical Advance in Chongqing’s economic growth so to make clearly itsfuture developing road.This paper empirically measures the effect of structural change and technicaladvance on Chongqing’s economic growth, using decomposed expressions of laborproductivity and total factor productivity. The main contents are as follow:①investigatethe effect of structural change and technical advance on Chongqing’s economic growthas a whole;②analyze the effect of structural change and technical advance onChongqing’s economic growth on the basis of thrice industrial;③e xam thelong-termtrend of the structural change effect and the technical advance effect to predict theirfuture development;④compare the effect of structural change and technical advance onChongqing’s economic growth with Beijing’s, Shanghai’s and Tianjin’s in order todefine Chongqing’s difference of economic growth with the other three cities.The main conclusions of the article are as follow:①at the beginning of opening up andthe next period, the effect of structural change on Chongqing’s economic growth is notobvious because that the market system is in the initial stage while the structural changeeffect is rising since its directly under the jurisdiction of central government, especially2000. The market is gradually playing its function of allocating the resource. Thedeveloping trend is different with the other municipalities;②t hecontribution andincrease of technical advance effect on Chongqing’s economic growth are in the lowerlevel than the other three municipalities, which is precisely the East Asia unable growth model proposed by Krugman. So it is necessary to improve the science and technologyof Chongqing’s economic growth, changing the growth way from extensive to intensive;③the structural change effect of the second industry on Chongqing’s economic growthgives positive play while the first industry plays a negative role, which reflects thatthere is a hidden danger of poor industry structure in Chongqing’s economicdevelopment. The first industry’s resource excessive outflow and the second industry’sdistinct advantage may lead to the risk of over high proportion of industry. Based on theconclusions the article puts forward corresponding policies.