本文从宏观角度阐述党中央作出西部大开发战略决策的依据和背景以及重大意义 ,分析新疆在西部大开发中特殊重要的战略地位和已经具备的条件 ,认为应不失时机地抓住这个重要机遇 ,正视存在问题 ,完善发展新疆经济的思路。作者从新疆全局着眼 ,提出了当前和今后一个时期经济发展的五大主要任务 This article elaborates the basis and background as well as the great significance of the CPC Central Committee’s making strategic decisions on the development of the western region from a macroscopic point of view. It analyzes the special and important strategic position and the conditions that Xinjiang already has in developing the western region, and holds that seizing such an important opportunity and facing up There are problems, improve the idea of ​​developing Xinjiang’s economy. From the perspective of Xinjiang’s overall situation, the author proposes five major tasks of economic development for the present and in a future period