党的十一届三中全会以来,在改革和开放两股洪流的强力推动下,民族地区的经济、社会面貌发生了深刻的变化。在奎国现代化建设进程中,具有丰富自然资源优势和发展潜力的各民族地区日益显示出重要的作用和地位。但必须看到,由于历史的和社会的各种原因,广大民族地区在生产基础设施和管理、技术等方面还一直处于明显的落后状态。一些民族地区在改造旧的社会经济模式、发挥自身真正优势方面,尚未找出切实可行的路子。这就使得民族地区与国内发达地区的差距不仅依然存在,而且有扩大的趋 Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, with the vigorous promotion of the torrent of reform and opening up, profound changes have taken place in the economic and social aspects of the ethnic areas. In the course of the Kuwaiti modernization, ethnic regions with rich natural resources and potential for development have increasingly shown an important role and status. However, we must realize that due to historical and social reasons, the vast ethnic minority areas have been in a clearly backward state in terms of production infrastructure and management and technology. In some ethnic areas, no feasible solution has yet been found in transforming the old social and economic model and in giving full play to its own real advantages. This makes the gap between the ethnic areas and the developed areas not only exist, but also with the expansion of the trend