江泽民同志在《正确处理社会主义现代化建设中的若干重大关系》一文中明确指出:“正确处理速度和效益的关系,必须更新发展思路,实现经济增长方式从粗放型向集约型的转变。这种转变的基本要求是,从主要依靠增加投入、铺新摊子、追求数量,转到主要依靠科技进步和提高劳动者素质上来,转到以经济效益为中心的轨道上来。”从这段话说明,作为经济增长方式,粗放型和集约型主要区别是:粗放型是以追求速度为主,集约型是以提高经济效益 Comrade Jiang Zemin clearly pointed out in his article “Some Major Relations in Correctly Handling Socialist Modernization Construction”: “To correctly handle the relationship between speed and efficiency, we must update the development thinking and realize the transformation of economic growth mode from extensive to intensive. The basic requirement for change is to shift from relying mainly on increasing input, spreading new stalls, and pursuing quantity, to relying mainly on scientific and technological advancement and improving the quality of laborers, and on the path to economic efficiency as the center." As the economic growth mode, the main differences between extensive and intensive types are: the extensive type is based on the pursuit of speed, and the intensive type is based on the increase of economic benefits.