作者分析了西部城市化水平低 ,人口增长率高是制约西部经济发展的重大障碍 ;阐述了提高城市化水平是降低人口增长率与提高经济总量的重要途径 ;并就西部地区如何提高城市化水平提出建设性的思考与对策 ,如推进户籍制度改革和农地产权制度等配套改革 ,这些改革将最终推动西部经济增长. The author analyzes the low level of urbanization and the high rate of population growth in western China as a major obstacle to the economic development in the western region. It elaborates that raising the level of urbanization is an important way to reduce the rate of population growth and increase the total economy; and how to improve the urbanization in the western region Level of constructive thinking and countermeasures, such as promoting the household registration system reform and farmland property rights and other supporting reforms, these reforms will eventually promote economic growth in the western region.