长江是我国第一条大河,全长6300公里,在世界上列第三位,其流域面积180万平方公里,占全国总面积的18.8%,人口3.8亿,占全国的33%,其干流横跨我国东、中、西三大经济地带,同时又是承接南北的桥梁和纽带。可以说长江沿岸地区是一条牵引全国经济“起飞”和带动东西南北发展的“巨龙”。为加速长江巨龙的腾飞,有关决策部门已决定把“长江三角洲及长江沿江地区经济发展与布局规划”列为重点规划任务之一,紧紧抓住改革开放的有利时机,充分考虑浦东开发开放和三峡水利枢纽这两项跨世纪的宏伟工程对本 The Yangtze River is the first large river in our country with a total length of 6,300 kilometers and the third largest in the world. Its drainage area is 1.8 million square kilometers, accounting for 18.8% of the total area and a population of 380 million, accounting for 33% of the country’s total. Its mainstream Across our country three major economic zones of East, Central and Western, but also to undertake the North-South bridge and link. It can be said that the area along the Yangtze River is a “dragon” that leads the national economy, takes off and drives the development of east, west, south and north. In order to accelerate the take-off of the giant dragon in the Yangtze River, the relevant decision-making departments have decided to list “the economic development and layout planning in the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River along the Yangtze River” as one of their key planning tasks. They should seize the favorable opportunity of reform and opening up and give full consideration to Pudong Development and opening up and the Three Gorges Hydropower Project these two great projects across the century