Abstract: By devising the measuring index system for economic transition profit (ETP) and employing the AHP statistical method, this paper measures the general index of ETP from 1978 to 2010 and analyzes the trends and characters of fluctuations of ETP in different historical periods. The results of the study indicate that though the institutional transformation has made tremendous gains since the economic restructuring, the structural transformation still needs to be deepened. The transformation of the development mode and globalization in transition is the key to the future greater achievements of China’s economy. With the economic transition continuing to advance to the later stage, to strengthen the positive role of state and give the government full play in effective control of the direction and process of economic transformation can guarantee the orderly and efficient development of the economic transition. To adjust the key points according to the actual trace of transformation can benefit further deepening of the reform on the basis of rationality, promoting the maintenance and growth of ETP in the long run.

Key words: economic transition; economic growth; transition profit