第一阶段是在20世纪80年代初引入农村家庭联产承包责任制，成功促进了农业生产率的提高，并将大批非技术工人释放到生产率较高的城市和工业部门工作， 全要素生产率年增长率也因此增至3-4 % 。
First, in the early 1980’s, following the introduction of the rural household-responsibility system, which boosted agricultural productivity and released a large amount of unskilled labor to work in the higher-productivity urban and industrial sectors, annual TFP growth accelerated to 3-4%.