关键词: 城乡消费差距；城市化；经济增长；&ldquo, 倒U型&rdquo, 趋势

Abstract: This paper has analyzed the relationships of urbanization, urban -rural consumption gap and economic growth according to panel data of China’s 29 provinces from 1992 to 2012. The results show that, urbanization is the core factor which causes the change of urban -rural consumption gap; there is inverted U trend in China’s urban and rural consumption gap; the inflection point of inverted U trend appeared in 2003; and the inverted U trend in eastern region is more significant than that in western and central regions. Since the early 1990s, there has been a long-term stable relationship between urban-rural consumption gap and economic growth in China. The gap between urban and rural consumption has a negative effect on economic growth, and the negative effects in eastern region is more significant than those in western and central regions. Among the urbanization, urban -rural consumption gap and economic growth, there is some influence in turn, which has the diversity in time and region.

Key words: the gap between urban and rural consumption, urbanization, economic growth, inverted U trend