Local officials are not functional in production, but they can affect the economic development in their jurisdiction. To examine the data of officials of economics majors and non-economics majors, we used the double independent sample Mann-Whitney test method based on non-parametric statistics .We draw conclusions that officials with a economics background can better improve the development of economy than others; and local economic level and the degree of influence of officials' economics background on the economic development is an inverted "U" nonlinear relationship.
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