The Study Of Higher Education's Contribution To The Rate Of Economic Increase In Jiangsu Province

So far, a great many researches have been proceeded concerning the contribution of Chinese economic increase to education. By referring to a large amount of documentations, the fact has been disclosed that there is few works on the contribution of higher education to the economic development in Jiangsu Province, in which researches are made on the grounds of the relatively accepted quantity approach. Therefore, within the advancement of technology and the approaching of the information age, higher education is more and more valued. Thus, it is theoretically valuable for I to choose my present topic. Meanwhile, by empirical analyses and the contrast of situations home and abroad, we may find that how are the present situation of our provincial higher education's investment, development and its contribution to economy. This thesis provides with some suggestions on how to transform the population advantage into the advantages of human resources and capitals and how to improve the impact of the higher education on local economic increase by reviewing the social economy benefit of higher education resource scheme in Jiangsu province.This thesis makes empirical research by referring, disposing and analyzing a great deal of statistics, on the basis of referring to Cui Yuping's (2000) methods of assessing the contribution of China's higher education towards economic growth. The findings of this thesis are as follows:Firstly, based on the documental introduction of the assessment about the education's contribution to economic increase, we introduce the models and approaches of the assessment of higher education's contribution to the rate of economic increase in Jiangsu Province; Secondly, we got the flexibility of labor investment by SPSS software. Lastly, we find out the higher education's contribution to the rate of economic increase in Jiangsu Province is 1.670%. As a consequence, we draw a conclusion that we should increase the investment in education, especially higher education and contribute more to the increase of economy in Jiangsu Province.