新常态下西部经济发展的新机遇、挑战及趋势

Opportunities,challenges and Trends for the Economic Development in the West Under the New Normal Situation

中国经济进入新常态,西部地区经济发展面临的国际国内环境发生了一系列的深刻变化。经济结构调整和发展方式转变、扩大内需、"一带一路"及"四化"同步发展战略等给西部地区经济发展带来了新的历史机遇;而全面建成小康社会难度较大、基础设施建设滞后、人口和劳动力素质偏低、生态环境恶化、节能减排压力大等,又使西部地区经济发展面临新挑战。西部开发依然位居国家优化经济发展空间格局的四大总体战略之首,"一带一路"新战略昭示了西部地区发展开放型经济的新方向和新蓝图;西部开发需要切实发挥市场配置资源的决定性作用和更好发挥政府的引导作用,也需要东、中部地区给予更多实质性支持;西部地区要增强自我发展和可持续发展能力,走新型工业化、新型城镇化、现代特色产业发展之路。

With Chinese economy going into the New Normal, the economic development in the West undergoes a series of profound changes nationally and internationally. The economic development in the West is provided with new historical opportunities from economic structural adjustment, transformation in development mode, domestic demand expansion, “One Belt and One Road” and “Four-zation” Synchronization Development Strategy. Meanwhile, the economic development in the West is facing new challenges such as the difficulties in building a well-off society in an all-round way, the lag of infrastructure construction, low quality of population and labor force, ecological environment deterioration, high pressure of energy conservation and emission reduction. Western Development is still first part of the four overall strategy of optimizing national economic development layout, and the new strategy of “One Belt and One Road” reveals the new direction and new blueprint of developing open economy in the West. Western Development needs market resource allocation to play its decisive role and government to play its leading role as well as more substantial support from the East and the Middle. The West should enhance the ability of self-development and sustainable development in ways of new industrialization, new-type urbanization and modern characteristic industry development.