西部大开发,是中国社会主义现代化进程中的重要历史阶段。从根本上说,没有西部大开发,就不可能在全国的规模上完成社会主义现代化。祖国的西部在古代并不落后,早在周、秦、汉、唐时期就是全国的政治、经济、文化中心,是孕育中华文化的摇篮。宋代以后,随着经济、政治的东移,西部 The great development of the western region is an important historical stage in the process of China’s socialist modernization. Fundamentally speaking, it is impossible to complete socialist modernization without any large-scale development of the western region on a national scale. The western part of the motherland did not lag behind in ancient times. As early as the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties, it was the country’s political, economic and cultural center and the cradle of Chinese culture. After the Song Dynasty, with the eastward shift of economy and politics, the west