关于实施西部大开发重大战略意义的思考

Macro - thinking on strategically crucial singificance of the implementation of great west development

在世纪之交，党中央、国务院制定了实施西部大开发的重大战略决策。这是体现社会主义制度优越性的伟大实践，是保持国民经济快速、健康、可持续发展的必然要求，是再造一个山川秀美的西部地区尤其是西北地区的需要，是增强民族团结、社会稳定和边防巩固的大事，是改善我国地域经济发展不平衡，缩小东西部地区之间发展差距的重大战略措施，是推进和加快我国整体实施现代化的重大战略部署。

At the turn of the centuries the communist party of China (CPC) and the state council made the strategically crucial decision of implementing great west development. It is a great practical work of displaying the superiority of socialist system, a necessary requirement of maintaining a fast, sound and sustainable development of the nationaI economy, and an inevitable demand of re-creating a new and environmentally beautiful western part of China, a great event of consolidating national unity, keeping social stability and safeguarding national defense, an important strategic step of changing developmental imbalance of regional economies, and of narrowing the growth gap between the east China and west China, a crucial arrangement of speeding up the holistic realization of China's modernization, and a great contribution offered by the Chinese nation to the world and mankind as well.