新千年的钟声刚刚敲响,党中央国务院果断作出了西部大开发的英明决策。改革开放二十二年来,我国国民经济得到了迅猛发展,但东西部发展速度一直存在严重差距。改革开放第一阶段所带来的出口繁荣、沿海地区的消费热正逐渐消退, The bell of the new millennium has just sounded, and the Party Central Committee and State Council have decisively made the wise decision-making of the great development of the western region. Twenty-two years of reform and opening up have witnessed the rapid development of our national economy, but there has been a serious gap in the pace of development between the east and the west. The export boom brought by the first phase of reform and opening up is dissipating gradually in the coastal areas,