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This paper develops a political economy model to study the relationship between the mechanism of political selection and its implications on growth and welfare under China authoritarian regime. It shows that the perceived political promotion system induces local officials to maximize growth by allocating more public fund to growth and less for welfare support. Our model well explains the facts of extraordinary growth in China in the past decades, and the mechanism of less resources invested for poverty alleviation, equality and pollution reduction.