目前东部与中西部经济发展水平的巨大差距已引起各方面重视,东部无锡一个县的经济实力就超过西部的一个省区.就发展趋势看“九五”末东部与中西部经济的绝对差距拉大已成定局,如果“九五”期间中西部在增长速度上不能赶上和超过东部,那么到2010年都很难遏制住东部与中西部经济绝对差距拉大的势头. At present, the great disparity in economic development between the east and the central and western regions has drawn great attention from all quarters. The economic strength of a county in the eastern part of Wuxi exceeds that of a province in the west. Regarding the development trend, the absolute gap between the eastern and central and western economies at the end of the Ninth Five-Year Plan It is a foregone conclusion that if the Central and Western regions can not catch up and surpass the growth rate of the Central and Western China during the Ninth Five-year Plan period, it will be very difficult to curb the trend of an absolutely widening economic gap between the east and the central and western regions by 2010.