中国政府从今年开始着手西部地区大开发，其目的在于发展在经济上明显落后的西部地区，从而缩小东西部地区在经济上的差距。这是中国政府充分利用西部地区自然资源招徕国内外投资的战略，专家认为，西部地区是中国内地发展的关键，也是今后维持政治稳定和经济腾飞不可缺少的重 Starting from this year, the Chinese government started the large-scale development of the western region with the purpose of developing the economically significant backward western region and narrowing the economic gap between the eastern and western regions. This is the Chinese government’s strategy of making full use of the natural resources in the western region to attract domestic and foreign investments. According to experts, the western region is the key to the development of the Mainland and the indispensable factor in maintaining political stability and economic growth in the future