China has achieved impressive economic growth in the past nearly four decades from the Economic Reform and Opening Door policy proposed in 1978 onward, but the economic development across China are quite unbalanced. The eastern regions have achieved greater economic development than that of the lagged western and central regions, and a wide economic development gap across regions had occurred in China. In order to improve the economic growth and narrow the regional disparity, the Chinese government put forward a Go West and Central Strategy in 2000, which encouraged the industries that lost comparative advantages in eastern regions to transfer to the lagged central and western regions, improved the public infrastructure and increased investments in the lagged areas. For demonstrating the impacts of industrial transfer movement initiated by the strategy on economic growth and regional disparity, the present paper employs a Barro-type framework with provincial panel data from a 30-provinces sample across China over the period 1995-2014 to conduct the empirical analyses. The results indicate that the industrial transfer movement initiated by the Go West and Central Strategy proposed in 2000 does help to improve the economic development across regions in China, but the convergence trend of economic growth across China do not show up in the Post-Strategy period from 2001 to 2014. Therefore, in order to maintain the desirable economic growth and narrow the gap of economic development across regions in China, the Chinese policymakers ought to continue and improve the industrial transfer movement, enhance the public infrastructures and investment environment in lagged regions to attract and receive more high-tech and high value-added industries as well as upgrade the industrial structure in the lagged western and central regions. Key words: China, Economic growth, Regional disparity, Industrial transfer, Convergence.