朱基总理2000年3月5日在第九届全国人民代表大会第三次会议上所作的《政府工作报告》中对实施西部大开发战略作了论述。指出：实施西部地区大开发战略，加快中西部地区的发展，是党中央贯彻邓小平关于我国现代化建设“两个大局”战略思想，面向新世纪作出的重大决策。这对扩大 In his “Report on the Work of the Government” made by Premier Zhu Rongji on March 5, 2000, at the third session of the Ninth National People’s Congress, an account of the implementation of the strategy for the great development of the western region was made. They pointed out that implementing the strategy of developing the western region and accelerating the development of the central and western regions are the major decisions made by the Party Central Committee in implementing Deng Xiaoping’s strategic thinking of “two general plans” for our country’s modernization and facing the new century. This pair of expansion