Abstract: How to realize the transition of China’s economic growth from “speed type” to “quality type” is a problem full of exploratory contents; scholars give it wide attention from different theoretical perspectives. And it is an indispensable part of the theoretical research to design an index to measure the transition process from speed to quality from the quantitative angle, so as to visually reflect the degree of transition of economic growth. By drawing on the economic principles and design ideas of the market index, this paper designs the quality index as the quantitative indicator to measure the transition of economic growth model, and quantitatively measures the degree of realization from “Shenzhen speed” to “Shenzhen quality”. The results of the empirical evaluation indicate that “Shenzhen speed” has begun to transit to “Shenzhen quality”, but the improvement of people’s living standards falls behind substantially the level of economic development of Shenzhen. Regarding this as an opportunity, this paper provides an analytical idea for a quantitative measurement of the economic growth transition in China.

Key words: economic growth transition; quality index; quantitative measurement