《中国21世纪议程》与西部开发

China's s21st Century Agenda: Developing the West

中国是世界上第一个响应联合国环境保护与发展大会号召的国家,90年代初期就制定并通过了《中国21世纪议程》,因而受到联合国和世界各国的赞赏。《中国21世纪议程》共分20章,内容涉及中国可持续发展的战略与对策,可持续发展的立法与实施,可持续发展经济政策、费用与资金机制,教育与可持续发展能力建设,人口、居民消费和社会服务,消除贫困,卫生与健康,人类居住区可持续发展,农业与农村可持续发展,工业与交通、通信业的可持续发展,可持续的能源生产与消费。

China is the first country which responded to the appeals of the United Nations Conference for Environment Protection and Development: China' s 21st Century Agenda was made in the beginning of the 1990s. This act has won universal appreciations in the world. The west region of China covers eleven provinces, municipalities or autonomous regions. There are 5,609,400 square kilometres in area (58.89% of the national territory), 320 million in population (26.4% of the national total) and abundant energy and mineral resources. In the Agenda, the sustained development of China's west is given top priority and 'eradication of poverty' listed as a primary task. Also proposed in the Agenda are the development of energy industries and in depth processing industries, preservation and improvement of grasslands, animal husbandry; preservation of animal variety and prevention of desertification, soil erosion, etc.. The priority projects listed in the Agenda have helped strengthen the strategic position of the west, a favourate condition for deepened opening campaign.