The total economic output of Sichuan Province (in simplified Chinese四川省) in 1995 ranked ninth in the country. According to the preliminary results of accounting, in 2008, total GDP of Sichuan reached 12,506.3 billion yuan, which had an increase of 9.5%. The primary industry had got production of 236.62 billion yuan, having an increase of 3.0%. For the secondary industry, the production increased 12.9% from last year up to 579.01 billion yuan. On the other hand, the tertiary production got 435 billion yuan, having an increase of 8.3%. GDP per capita reached 15,378 yuan, which had an increase of 9.7%.

Compared with other provinces, the pace of economic development of Sichuan was after the migraine. At the same time, the agricultural economy in Sichuan Province was quite large and the proportion of it is very high. Therefore, people usually regard this province as a major agricultural province. Between the 29 years from 1979 to 2007, GDP average annual growth rate at constant price was 9.0 percent, which is 25th in China and is lower than 9.8 percent, the national average value. From 1978 to 2008, the ranking of the total GDP of Sichuan went up and down between 6th and 9th. In 1978, it ranked the sixth and in 1985, it ranked the eighth. Since 1995, the position was stable at 9th.

In the past 29 years, Sichuan’s economic growth rate had got 13 years which were lower than the national average and 16 years being above the average. Therefore, it is obvious that Sichuan Province’s economic development was not really good. One of the reasons is that Sichuan had focused on development of primary industry, like farming. In the past, it was very important and contributed a lot of Sichuan’s development. However, in recent years, development of secondary and tertiary industries had become the most important for China but Sichuan was not able to shift the focus. Therefore, unless there is such a change, Sichuan might not be able to catch up the nation’s development and promote its rankings.