This paper uses historical GDP, silver wages, welfare ratio, physical wages, human development index and other indicators to examine that from about 1000 AD real to the present, China has been chased and surpassed, its gap with industrialized countries has widened, an after the founding of New China, it began to achieve an effective catchup. In the case of a low starting point and a late start time, China has effectively narrowed the gap with highincome countries in 70 years. Drawing on the experience of catching up and surpassing history of Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries over the past thousand years, China will successfully catch up in the middle of the 21st century.