东西部经济关系与区域经济协调发展

The Economic Relations between Eastern and Western China and the Coordinated Development of Regional Economies

改革开放前 30年内地和西部地区的重点建设重视了区域平衡发展但损失了经济效率 ;改革开放后 2 0年东部沿海地区的重点发展重视了经济效率但损失了区域平衡 ,这两个时期都没有实现区域经济协调发展。 2 0世纪末开始施行的西部大开发揭开了西部地区再一次重点建设的序幕。这次区域发展战略重点的转移客观上要求东西部地区经济协调发展 ,从经济体制、经济实力和国内外环境来看 ,也基本上具备了区域经济协调发展的条件。但从西部大开发实施情况来看 ,西部地区经济发展步伐仍需进一步加快 。

China has undergone three different periods in focused construction and development in the East or West for the more than half century after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The focused construction in the hinterland and West in the 30 years before the reform and opening valued balanced regional development but at the expense of economic efficiency; the focused development in the eastern coast in the 20 years after the reform and opening valued economic efficiency but at the expense of regional balance. In neither period was coordinated development of regional economies accomplished. The development of the West beginning at the end of the 20th century heralded in another period of focused construction in the West. The diversion of the strategic focus in regional development demands objectively the coordinated development of the eastern and western regional economies, and satisfies the basic requirements for coordinated regional economic development in terms of economic system, economic strength and internal and external environment. In view of the realities of the development of the West, however, there is still a need to further speed up the economic development in the West and further foster the opening and development of the West by the central government.