以体制创新和科技创新为动力,推进经济和社会发展,这是制定和实施“十五”计划的一个重要指导思想,也是总结我国改革开放和现代化建设历史经验得出的一个科学结论。浙江从陆域自然资源不足的“资源小省”发展为经济大省,靠的是改革开放过程中的不断创新。在新世纪初,要把经济大省建设成经济强省,仍然必须依靠体制创新和科技创新。对于什么是经济强省,建设什么样的经济强省,不是本文所要讨论的问题。从浙江经济发展思路看,确立建设经济强省的战略目标,是促进经济发展从量的扩张向质的提高转变这一战略思路的继续和发展,是全面推进浙江现代化建设的需要,是加快发展这一主题的体现。确立这一战略目标,不仅要求浙江经济总量比较大,排位比较靠前,更重要的是提高国民经济整体素质,增强综合实力和竞争能力。显然,经济强省是一个发展的概念,相对的概念,是动态的、相比较而言的。经济强省也是一 Taking institutional innovation and technological innovation as the driving force to promote economic and social development is an important guiding principle for formulating and implementing the “Tenth Five-year Plan” and a scientific conclusion drawn from the historical experience of China’s reform and opening up as well as its modernization drive. Zhejiang Province has become a major economic province from the “resource-minded province” where natural resources are scarce in the land area, relying on continuous innovation in the process of reform and opening up. At the beginning of the new century, to build a big economic province into an economically powerful province, we still have to rely on institutional innovation and technological innovation. It is not the issue to be discussed in this article as to what is a strong economic province and what kind of economic stronghold we should build. From the perspective of Zhejiang’s economic development, the strategic objective of establishing a province with strong economic strength is to promote the continuance and development of the strategic thinking of economic growth from the expansion of the quantity to the improvement of quality. It is the need to promote the modernization of Zhejiang in an all-round way, The embodiment of this theme. Establishing this strategic objective not only requires Zhejiang’s economic aggregate to be relatively large but also ranks higher and more importantly, enhances the overall quality of the national economy and enhances its overall strength and competitiveness. Obviously, a strong economic province is a concept of development. The relative concept is dynamic and comparatively speaking. Economically strong province is also one