国家实施西部大开发战略，给重庆民族地区的发展带来了难得的历史机遇。把握历史性机遇，迎接挑战，实现重庆民族地区的跨越式发展，不仅是民族地区自身发展的客观要求地是实现重庆新的振兴的客观需要。为此，笔者就如何加快民族地区的发展提出如下四个建议： 一、坚持以市场为 The implementation of the strategy of developing the western region by the country has brought a rare historical opportunity to the development of the ethnic minority areas in Chongqing. To seize the historic opportunities, meet the challenges and realize the leapfrog development in Chongqing’s ethnic areas is not only the objective requirement of self-development in ethnic areas, but also the objective need of realizing Chongqing’s new rejuvenation. To this end, the author put forward the following four suggestions on how to speed up the development of minority areas: First, adhere to the market as