扩大内需是当前中国的一个热点,但是对于怎样扩大内需,则见仁见智,而目前政策多侧重于扩大固定资产投资,促进消费的政策除汽车、家电外,多数乏善可陈。在促进消费方面,现有政策侧重于刺激城乡居民扩大消费支出、减少储蓄比例,缺乏通过增加居民收入、消除过大收入差距、完善社保体系扩大居民消费的长远观点。这样的思路和政策,即使短期实现了拉动经济增长的目的,从长期来看可能得不偿失,甚至导致国民经济结构的恶化。 The expansion of domestic demand is a hot issue in China at present. However, there is a difference of opinion about how to expand domestic demand. At present, the policies are mostly focused on expanding the investment in fixed assets and promoting consumption. Most of the policies except for automobiles and home appliances are quite poor. In promoting consumption, existing policies have focused on stimulating urban and rural residents to expand their consumption expenditures, reduce the proportion of savings, and lack the long-term perspective of increasing residents’ income by increasing their incomes, eliminating excessive income gaps and improving the social security system. Such ideas and policies, even if they are short-term ones that can boost economic growth, may outweigh the benefits in the long run and even lead to the deterioration of the national economic structure.