Abstract: This paper selects intellectual property rights and international trade as two dominant factors of China’s economic development, and assumes that GDP per worker are composed by fixed-asset investment, average years of education and total factor productivity, then empirically investigate the contribution of the two factors to GDP per worker. Firstly, the paper chooses the method of calculating China’s total factor productivity, and constructs empirical regression model. Secondly, we calculate China’s physical capital stock, total factor productivity and level of intellectual property rights from 1985 to 2009, respectively. Finally, we conduct empirical analysis using China’s time series data. The results show that intellectual property rights and international trade are both determinants of China’s long-term economic development. The contribution of international trade to China’s economic development is largely through the channel of fixed-asset investment and technology advancement, and the contribution of intellectual property rights to China’s economic development is largely through the channel of high quality labor.

摘要： 本文选取知识产权保护和国际贸易为决定中国经济发展的两个因素，并假设劳动力人均产出来源于固定资产投资、劳动力受教育质量和全要素生产率，进而实证研究这两个因素对人均产出的贡献。首先，确定全要素生产率的计算方法,并构建了实证回归模型。其次，测算了中国1985-2009年中国的固定资本存量、全要素生产率以及知识产权保护强度。最后，利用中国的时间序列数据，进行了实证分析，研究发现知识产权保护和国际贸易都是决定中国经济长期发展的因素，且国际贸易通过固定资产投资和技术进步渠道对中国经济发展的作用更大，而知识产权保护通过高素质劳动力渠道对中国经济发展的作用更大。

关键词: 知识产权保护, 国际贸易, 经济发展, 全要素生产率, intellectual property rights, international trade, economic development, total factor productivity