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Acknowledgments This article was supported by Excellent Supervisor Fund of Basal Research Fund of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (Grant No. 53200859546), the National Major Research Programme for Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011ZX05009-004). The anonymous reviewers and the editors are greatly appreciated for their careful reviews and detailed comments.Peer reviewedPostprin

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monetary neutrality exerts essential importance on the making of monetary policy targets, and its effect. This paper, by employing IRF and AIRF, tests the characteristic of monetary neutrality in china, plus fluctuation features as well. The testing results show: monetary stock, whatever defined by M0, M1, or M2, presents non-neutrality feature, increase of growth rate of M2 can bring permanent accumulative loss on real output; there is oscillation feature from real output, by giving monetary growth shock. Its underlying policy suggestions are: money in the short-run cannot be taken as stabilizer of economic growth; there are trade-offs between target of economic stable and growth; stable speed of money growth benefits economy stabilizatio