西部地区是我国的西大门。长期以来,西部地区经济的发展与东部沿海省市经济发展相比存在较大的差距,特别是自80年代以来,这种差距呈扩大的趋势。差距的扩大,不仅影响西部地区经济的发展,也制约着东部地区经济的进一步快速发展,进而阻碍着我国国民经济的持续、快速、健康发展。因此,尽快制定加快西部地区经济发展的战略,是当前我国国民经济发展中的一项重要而紧迫的任务。 The western region is the west gate of our country. For a long time, there has been a big gap between the economic development in the western region and the economic development in the eastern coastal provinces and cities, especially since the 1980s. This gap has been widening. The widening of the gap not only affects the economic development in the western region, but also restrain the further rapid economic development in the eastern region and thus hinders the sustained, rapid and healthy development of our national economy. Therefore, formulating the strategy of accelerating the economic development in the western region as soon as possible is an important and urgent task in the current national economic development in our country.