Study On The Quality Of Economic Growth In The West Region

Economic growth not only contains the speed of growth, but also contains the quality of growth. People always pay attention to the growth of economy gross and ignore the quality and efficiency of economic growth. Recently, more and more scholars focus on the problem. What is the final aim of economic growth? How should we evaluate and enhance the quality of economic growth. Generally thinking, for our country, the most important problem is not superheated economy but the lower quality of economic growth. Most documents analyzed the problem qualitatively, but quantitative analysis is very less. Therefore, how to evaluate the quality of economic growth of one country or region is a very important question for economics and statistics.The effect of western development strategy depends on the quality of economic growth, not only the speed of growth, whether the strategy improve the level of people's life and create the harmonious social environment and natural environment. The thesis chooses 11 provinces in west as researching project. Firstly, the thesis adds personal opinions on the base of summing up previous opinions in order to explain the connotation of economic growth quality in all aspects and makes the measuring system of index in every angle, and analyzes the quality of economic growth in the west region. The results show that the quality of economic growth in the west region is very low, and especially there are large gap of growth potential in west provinces. As capital accumulation, human capital and TFP are three sources of economic growth, so the fixed asset investment, human capital and R&D investment affect the quality of economic growth. Therefore, based on the endogenous growth theory, the thesis further analyzes the potential of economic growth in the west regions by making the model. The results show that public fixed asset investment and human capital have more contribution towards economic growth, and private fixed asset and R&D investment have less contribution towards economic growth. At last, the thesis advances the problems in the western development and advices for enhancing the quality of economic growth of west region.