Supply-Side Structural Reforms and China’s Potential Economic * Growth Rate

Li Ping and Lou Feng  
Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China  
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of supply-side structural reforms on China’s  
potential economic growth rate in the coming decade according to the data the authors  
have gathered. Under the rapid growth scenario with the implementation of supply-side  
structural reforms, China’s potential economic growth rate will reach an average of 6.5%  
and 5.8% respectively in the 13th Five-year Plan (2016-2020) and 14th Five-year Plan  
(2021-2025) periods. These rates are 0.2 and 0.3 percentage points higher, respectively,  
than that under the baseline scenario with the inertia of historic trends. In implementing  
supply-side structural reforms, China must transform governmental functions, break  
monopolies, create a comprehensive competitive market environment, foster the creation of  
pro-innovation mechanisms, refocus on quality and efficiency, and raise capital utilization  
and labor productivity.  
Keceoynowmoyrds: supply-side structural reforms, potential economic growth rate, TFP, China’s  
JEL classification: E00,O10,P00
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