Latest News:  

English>>Business

Quality and efficiency should feature in economic growth

(People's Daily Online)

13:19, March 05, 2013

Edited and translated by Liang Jun, People's Daily Online

China must speed up the adjustment of economic structure and achieve steady economic growth by improving quality and efficiency because the model of boosting growth through investment has not been able to continue, according to Bai Chongen, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

The context of the current economic operation determines macroeconomic policy should pay more attention to economic transformation and improvement of quality and efficiency, rather than the growth rate only. China's economic growth has just regained steady and picked up; there is still room for increase, so too strong stimulus policy is unnecessary. China should continue to implement proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy while making proper fine tune on macro policy.

Some people think the current increase rate is slow. While Cai Fang, director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes when judging the economic growth, besides growth rate of economic output, we should refer to potential increase rate, which is determined by the supply of a variety of production factors.

Cai, also a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), thinks China's potential rate of economic output has dropped to 7.2 percent during the Twelfth-Five Year Plan (2011-2015) and labor population has also seen absolute decline, which are the fundamental reasons for restricting economic growth.

The current economic recovery is not simply to boost economic growth, but to achieve quality, cost-effectiveness and sustainable recovery. Low growth rate will lead the tightening macroeconomic operation environment and brought a series of difficulties and problems; but high growth rate is not conductive to transformation and structure adjustment.

Cai thinks potential growth rate and labor population will continue to decline in 2013. If we attribute the slow growth rate to insufficient demand, and take measures to stimulate demand to achieve growth, may exacerbate over-capacity and inflation.

Cai said to achieve steady growth, we should make efforts to improve potential growth rather than blindly seek high growth rate through stimulus measures to boost demand.

In the five to 10 years to come, China should further promote rural labor forces to transfer to non-agricultural industry, which helps increase participation of labor force, thus improves potential growth rate and, in terms of supply, provides power for economic growth.

【1】 【2】



Read the Chinese version: 中国经济要没“水分”的回升
Source: People's Daily; Author: Zhu Jianhong, Xiong Jian and He Lu


We recommend:

IKEA: Meatballs in China supplied by Fujian factory

Jet-set life takes off for country's super-rich

Taking a bite out of the market for snakes

Ratings agency warns about rising debt

Holiday firework sales fail to boom

4G network to lead the world

Email|Print|Comments(Editor:LiangJun、Li Zhenyu)

Leave your comment0 comments

  1. Name

  

Selections for you


  1. Chinese navy's Su-30MKK2 fighters

  2. "Tonglin" guided missile frigate in firing

  3. Pro, anti-Hugo Chavez demonstrators protest

  4. Quake hits China's Yunnan, 30 injured

  5. Beautiful journalist reporting CPPCC

  6. Two sessions: Journalists on mission

  7. Happy Boy Jaki Tan Jiexi

  8. Luoyang: Resting place of tranquility

  9. China's richest man sets his sights on foreign projects

  10. China's jumbo jet C919 expected to fly 2014

Most Popular

Opinions

  1. Spoiled brats spring from pampering parents
  2. A smile can succeed where a scowl fails
  3. Reducing income inequality an urgent task
  4. Why media turns attention to 'two sessions'
  5. New glories for China in striving for nat'l renewal
  6. Home is where the heart is
  7. Are US, N. Korea playing 'basketball diplomacy'?
  8. Who will attend China's upcoming 'two sessions'?
  9. CPC adopts list of state leadership candidates
  10. Quality vocational education

What’s happening in China

Thousands of policemen hunting car, baby stealer in Changchun | Update: Stolen car found, baby still missing

  1. Regional efforts may not fix air pollution
  2. Weibo helps flood hero find job
  3. 1 in 50 Shanghai women has cancer
  4. HIV carrier sues hospital for refusing surgery
  5. Abducted boy reunited with family