Abstract: Since reform and opening up, it is credible that the progress of management has improved the economic growth. The principle of labor, capital, technology and management as productive factors getting rewords according to their contribution, had been decided accurately in the 16th conference of CPC. In the 17th conference of CPC, the management innovation is regarded as one of the ways alterring the model of economic growth. Under the circumstances, it is significant to study empirically on the contribution of management upon the economic growth. In this paper, we measure it with the method suggested by Yingjun Feng et al. and improved by us later. The result reveals that the average contribution of management on economic growth is 13.92% from 1978 to 2006.