陈栋生教授是国家级有突出贡献专家,长期致力于区域经济研究,奔走于东西部之间。4月9日下午,本刊记者在陈教授家中就“以信息化缩小东西部发展差距”问题对他进行了采访。陈教授畅谈了以下几个观点。差距客观存在十六大提出以信息化带动工业化,走新型工业化道路,这给缩小东西部差距带来了 Professor Chen Dongsheng is a state-level expert with outstanding contributions. He has devoted himself to studying regional economy for a long period of time, running between the east and the west. On the afternoon of April 9, our correspondent interviewed him at the home of Professor Chen on the issue of narrowing the development gap between eastern and western regions by means of informationization. Professor Chen talked about the following points. The objective existence of the gap at the 16th CPC National Congress proposed to bring about industrialization through informatization and take a new road to industrialization. This has brought about a reduction in the disparity between the East and the West