一、为国家西部大开发作出基础性、战略性和前瞻性的贡献,是我院广大科技人员光荣的历史责任西部大开发战略是邓小平同志关于我国现代化建设“两个大局”战略思想的重要组成部分,即东部沿海地区加快对外开放,率先发展起来,发展到一定时期,就要帮助中西部地区加快发展。在世纪之交,我国现代化建设第二步战略目标即将全面实现,开始向第三步战略目标迈进的时候,以江泽民同志为核心的党中央第三代 I. Making a Basic, Strategic and Prospective Contribution to the Western Development of the Country is the Glorious Historical Responsibility of Our Scientific and Technical Personnel. The strategy of developing the western region is Deng Xiaoping’s strategic thinking on our country’s modernization and “two overall plans.” The important component is that the eastern coastal areas should speed up their opening up to the outside world and take the lead in developing them. To some extent, it is necessary to help the central and western regions to speed up their development. At the turn of the century, when the second-phase strategic goal of our country’s modernization drive is about to be fully realized and the march toward the third-step strategic goal is started, the third generation of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the core