实施西部大开发战略,加快中西部地区发展,是党中央、国务院面向新世纪作出的重大决策,也是我国改革开放和社会主义现代化建设历史进程中的又一座里程碑,具有重大战略意义。我国改革开放之初,邓小平同志就明确提出了“两个大局”的伟大构想:一个大局,就是东部沿海地区加快对外开放,使之较快地发展起来。另一个大局,当发展到一定时期,比如本世纪末全国达到小康水平时,就要拿出更多的力量帮 Implementing the strategy of developing the west region and accelerating the development of the central and western regions is a major policy decision made by the Central Party Committee and the State Council in the new century and is another milestone in the historical process of China’s reform and opening up and socialist modernization. It is of great strategic significance. At the very beginning of China’s reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping clearly proposed the great conception of “two overall plans”: one overall plan is to speed up the opening up to the outside world in the eastern coastal regions and make it develop faster. Another big picture is that when it reaches a certain period of development, for example, when the country has reached a well-to-do level at the end of this century, more strength will be provided