Over the past 20 years, China has made spectacular achievements in economic growth as well as in thetransformation of economic growth pattern. Industrial structure is being updated, and technology is playing a more andmore important role in economic development. The energy and resource consumption in many industries and enterprisesare reducing. However, we should realize that there are still many problems in changing the economic growth pattern,such as high input, high consumption, high discharge, inharmony, recycling difficulty, and low efficiency, which havegreatly impaired and restrict Chinese economic development. Therefore, the fundamental change of the economic growthpattern is inevitable. Based on the analysis on the status quo and the exploit of resources, this paper suggests that thetransformation from unsustainable to sustainable growth is the only choice in changing the economic growth pattern. Inaddition, the transformation should not completely rely on the fundamental effects of market mechanism. We should makefull use of the power of governments to speed up the transformation of economic system. Over the past 20 years, China has made spectacular achievements in economic growth as well as in the transformation of the economic growth pattern. Industrial structure is being updated, and technology is playing a more andmore important role in economic development. The energy and resource consumption in many However, we should realize that there are still many problems in changing the economic growth pattern, such as high input, high consumption, high discharge, inharmony, recycling difficulty, and low efficiency, which havegreatly impaired and restrict Chinese economic Based on the analysis on the status quo and the exploit of resources, this paper suggests that the transformation from unsustainable to sustainable growth is the only choice in changing the economic growth pattern. Inaddition , the transformation should not completely rely on the fundamental effe cts of market mechanism. We should makefull use of the power of governments to speed up the transformation of economic system.