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China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity
It is known that the rapid progress of the Chinese economy is perceived to be aligned more towards increasing the economic quantity (GDP) rather than its quality primarily owing to a large amount of carbon emission, increased environmental pollution, and high resource consumption. However, such perc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10381078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37506166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289399 |
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author | Xu, Guangyue Dong, Haoyun Shi, Xiaojiang |
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description | It is known that the rapid progress of the Chinese economy is perceived to be aligned more towards increasing the economic quantity (GDP) rather than its quality primarily owing to a large amount of carbon emission, increased environmental pollution, and high resource consumption. However, such perception comes with no single evidence or study that compares growth rates between the quantity and quality of China’s economic development. Such a comparative study could provide useful information to the Chinese government and concerned agencies to manage and promote sustainable economic development in China. Here we developed a comprehensive economic development quality evaluation indicator system to study China’s progress on economic quality from 1978 to 2017 and compare it with GDP growth rates over the same period. Results indicate that during the period 1978–2017, China’s economic development quality index has increased significantly, higher than the average annual growth rate of GDP during the same period. This higher growth rate of Chinese economic development quality could be attributed to the country’s achievements in tackling environmental pollution, narrowing the income gap, promoting technological progress and innovation, improving economic efficiency, maintaining social stability, and improving social welfare. We suggest the world re-evaluate China’s economic development achievement and growth patterns that can provide a reference for other developing countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-103810782023-07-29 China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity Xu, Guangyue Dong, Haoyun Shi, Xiaojiang PLoS One Research Article It is known that the rapid progress of the Chinese economy is perceived to be aligned more towards increasing the economic quantity (GDP) rather than its quality primarily owing to a large amount of carbon emission, increased environmental pollution, and high resource consumption. However, such perception comes with no single evidence or study that compares growth rates between the quantity and quality of China’s economic development. Such a comparative study could provide useful information to the Chinese government and concerned agencies to manage and promote sustainable economic development in China. Here we developed a comprehensive economic development quality evaluation indicator system to study China’s progress on economic quality from 1978 to 2017 and compare it with GDP growth rates over the same period. Results indicate that during the period 1978–2017, China’s economic development quality index has increased significantly, higher than the average annual growth rate of GDP during the same period. This higher growth rate of Chinese economic development quality could be attributed to the country’s achievements in tackling environmental pollution, narrowing the income gap, promoting technological progress and innovation, improving economic efficiency, maintaining social stability, and improving social welfare. We suggest the world re-evaluate China’s economic development achievement and growth patterns that can provide a reference for other developing countries. Public Library of Science 2023-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10381078/ /pubmed/37506166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289399 Text en © 2023 Xu et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Xu, Guangyue Dong, Haoyun Shi, Xiaojiang China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title | China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title_full | China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title_fullStr | China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title_full_unstemmed | China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title_short | China’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
title_sort | china’s economic development quality grows faster than economic quantity |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10381078/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37506166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289399 |
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