Abstract: The orientation of economic policy in economic law is related to the development direction of economic law. The current “identity theory”, “theory of nature”, “methodology theory” and “soft law theory” all pay attention to the close relationship between economic policy and economic law，which has great significance, but there is still room for development. The operation of economic policy in the field of banking law shows that economic policy is a kind of economic law thinking and a way to realize the regulation and control of economic life by economic law. Its inherent logic is as follows: at the stage of “economic policy in advance”, economic policy is used as a preliminary rehearse of legislation; at the stage of “economic policy into law”, economic policy itself has become a kind of legal rule; at the stage of “economic policies implementation”, economic policy has yet become a way of implementation of economic law. Although the formulation, expression and performance of economic policy need to be further improved, it cannot be denied that economic policy thinking plays an important role in economic law’s regulation of economic life.

Key words: economic law; economic policy; economic law thinking