新千年的第一次、本世纪的最后一次 ,今年新春在北京召开的九届全国人大和九届全国政协第三次会议 ,具有非同一般的意义。所以 ,它吸引了两千多名国内外记者。敏锐的记者们发现 :两会的代表和委员创下了历次两会的“之最”———西部大开发成为他们最一致最集中的话题 ;针对西 For the first time in the new millennium, the ninth session of the Ninth National People’s Congress and the Ninth CPPCC National Committee held in Beijing this spring, the last in this century, have extraordinary significance. Therefore, it has attracted more than two thousand domestic and foreign reporters. The keen reporters found that representatives and commissioners of the two sessions set the “highest point” in the past two sessions - the western development has become their most consistent and concentrated topic;