消费结构既是经济增长的结果,又是制约经济增长的重要因素。1994年以来新疆居民消费持续扩大,消费结构明显改善,且城镇居民的消费结构升级快于农村居民;但与此同时,居民消费率持续下降,对GDP增长的贡献率偏低;城乡差异显著。因此,“十三五”时期,要高度重视发挥居民消费促进经济增长的基础性作用,着力提高居民消费率;要顺应经济新常态的发展趋势,以增加居民收入、大力发展第三产业、合理调节消费价格、节约刚性消费支出为重点,大力推进服务消费增长;要从完善惠农政策、加快农村富余劳动力转移、改善农村消费环境、提高农民社保水平、重视农民文化消费出发,努力扩大农村居民消费。

The consumption structure is the core content of consumption. It is not only the result of economic growth, it is also an important factor of economic growth. Consumption of residents in Xinjiang continued to expand, which obviously improves the consumption structure, but the ratio of consumption continues to decline. As a result, its contribution to the GDP growth is not stable, and the contribution rate is low. And what’s more, significant difference can be found in urban and rural areas, urban residents’ consumption structure upgrades faster than that of rural residents. During the period of “The thirteenth five-year plans”, it is of great necessity to attaching great importance to playing the fundamental role in residents’ consumption to promote economic growth, to improve the residents consumption rate; to adapt to economic development trend of the “new normal”, with an emphasis on increasing people’s income, developing the third industry, adjusting reasonably consumer prices, saving rigid consumer spending and vigorously promoting service consumption growth; and sparing no effort to expand the rural residents’ consumption from the perspective of the perfecting the favorable policies, expediting of transfer of rural surplus labor, improving rural consumption environment, and raising the level of farmers’ social security and placing more emphasis on peasants cultural consumption.