Abstract: Based on annual data of sports goods manufacturing industry and other related economic data in Sichuan Province from 2001-2012, this paper, depending the methods of unit root test, Johansen cointegration test, Granger causality test and impulse response function based on Vector Auto-regression model(VAR), conducts an empirical analysis on the influence of sports goods manufacturing industry on regional economic growth. The results show that the cointegration test indicates that, in the long run, long-term equilibrium relationship exists between sports goods manufacturing output and the tertiary industry; while, in the short term, there is a mutual reinforcing effect between them. When the lag period is 1, Granger causality test rejects the original supposition that “sports goods manufacturing industry output is not the Granger cause of the tertiary industry," indicating a one-way causal relationship between sports goods manufacturing output and the tertiary industry in Sichuan Province.

Key words: sports Industry, sports goods manufacturing industry, economic growth, tertiary industry growth, VAR