摘要
The development of Western China has strategic implications not only for China’s domestic politico-economic stability but also for the peace in the neighboring regions as well as for changing shifts of global power architecture.This paper intends to critically review current reality of economic development in Western China and the trend of border trade with the neighboring regions including Central Asia,Southeast Asia,and South Asia,while arguing that general trend of xibu dakaifa,Western China development program,has been uneven and asymmetric in a paradoxical way.It is necessary,thus,to search for a balanced development plan for Western China with a global outlook especially linking China to the Middle East via Central Asia and South Asia.
